Taking a Leica M3 Everywhere for 30 Days

I switch out a lot between many cameras in different formats. I enjoy working with large format view cameras as well as the miniature format (as it was originally called)--35mm. And my favorite camera is my Rolleiflex. But for the next 30 days I'm carrying a Leica M3 with a 50mm rigid Summicron with me...

Here Comes Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day: April 24th!

I pulled my Leonardo Pinhole Camera out to complete an assignment for The Photo Game and did a quick check to see how to best calculate exposure and saw that World Pinhole Photography Day is coming up the last Sunday of April, the 24th. Will you be ready? Will I? MaryLee saw this Leonardo Pinhole...

Photographing the ‘Schmaltzy & Princie’ Hollywood Fringe Festival Poster

I was working with the writer and actor (and my partner) MaryLee Herrmann on making her poster photo for the Hollywood Fringe Festival where she will be presenting her solo show she wrote, Schmaltzy & Princie: Diary of a Not-So-Great Daddy's Girl, and will perform in June of this year. Tickets and show information available...

A Gift of a Portrait to Add to My Worldwide Home Gallery Collection

The greatest gifts are those that expect no return. I dropped these two photographs off to Norm, who I wrote about in a previous article. Well, those portraits don't matter unless I print and frame them and get them to him so his family can enjoy them for some time to come. And that's exactly...

Starting a 2022 Large Format Portrait Project

I'm inspired by many portrait photographers. Five I can think of right off the top of my head would be Judith Joy Ross, Duane Michals, Lora Webb Nichols, Gregg Miller and the masterful August Sander. August Sander. Young Farmers. 1914 Ross, Nichols, Miller and Sander because they documented people in a way that shows them...

The Evolution of a National Photography Show Exhibition Print

Click it to see it large on a desktop monitor. This photograph (Title: Surfside Motel Pool, Seaside Heights NJ) was selected for exhibition in the Louisville Art Association 28th National Photography Show. The show opens Memorial Day weekend and runs May 27-June 5, 2022. What a photograph. I love it. I am considering it as...

Where is the Eggleston, the Shore, the Arbus of Today?

We used to have titans in the photography world. I'm thinking of William Eggleston. Robert Frank. Diane Arbus. Garry Winogrand. Stephen Shore. I think it was all because of John Szarkowski, the photography director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He mounted shows featuring their work and they ended up with book deals and...

Art Photography Versus Documentary Photography–It’s Really Not a Competition!

I was reading on Twitter this tweet that got everyone's in the Twitterverse photography community feathers ruffled. (See what I did there.) Why do people have to tell others what to make and what is valid and what isn't? Like there's any truth to their opinion. There are multiple types of photography, from scientific to...

Photography Show House Concert/Art Opening

I was reading a story in the New York Times about a playwright, Matthew Gasda, who is making a name for himself by selling out house concert-style theater performances. Instead of staging his plays in a traditional theater, he's bringing actors and his shows to people's homes in New York City. And he's become an...

Fashion on Pearl (Out on the Pedestrian Mall in Boulder Colorado)

I mentioned in a recent post that some fashion trends may end which will make photos of the current day's fashion valuable in the future. Photos that by themselves are boring today since we can see them out the window. Here are some of the fashion trends I found in my photo walk this weekend....