reminder

please remember our November 15, 2007 closing date for uploading your photographs on  Digital Railroad for our little gathering of work (scroll down to `bold steps` for details)…as you know, there is a $5000. stipend to be awarded to a worthy photographer and many of you will be published here (on a new clean, large …

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eye contact

      the most often asked question i get when mentoring an emerging photographer is, "how can i get closer to people?"  ..they tell me how shy they are when it comes to putting a camera up to their eye to photograph a stranger on the street or in a bar or social gathering… …

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morning fog

there is now outside my window a morning fog so thick i cannot see the river…monochromatic…soft, mysterious….it hides the fact that i am where i am….it has taken the "place" out of what is normally an obvious skyline….new york is  temporarily "gone"…… i often contemplate "place"….both where i live and where i do my photographs….certain …

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showtime

i hate to admit it sometimes, but i must be "results" oriented….i see myself as outrageously "freewheeling"….independent and free at all costs…reckless sometimes…loving loving the journey…..BUT, in seeming contradiction, i am also a "results" person…theorizing that no philosophic discussion at the end of the bar is worth much without "end results"…. so it was with …

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one two three

priorities…sequencing….what comes first, what comes second, what can wait for later….priorities in life and career and priorities in the  sequencing of photographs….what applies to one, may quite apply to the other…the decisions we all make are as important as the actions we take…and it is the decision making process and the prioritizing of actions in …

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bold steps

i usually enjoy "burying the lead" to my stories here…putting the "key" to the story somewhere towards the end….to make you read the whole thing!!!  or simply to pique your sense of "discovery"… not this time…. i announce now, to the readers of this forum, the offering of a $5,000. (u.s. dollars) stipend/grant for one …

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tango

i probably lost all of my hair because i pulled it out while trying to edit photographs….this most anguishing process just goes with the territory of being a photographer…who among us has not suffered during the editing nightmare?? i am even writing this post right now to "delay" what i really should be doing … …

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tech stuff

most of you already know that  i have little, if any, knowledge about the tech world in general …that is why i have michael couvoursier on my side…mike answers all of my tech questions and is ready to answer yours….i just received word from mike that there are some small errors in the tech info …

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flood gates

ok, the time has come…..please send now your work for this forum……20 picture limit please….within this framework you can submit 20 unrelated singles, or any combo of "essays" but not to exceed 20 pictures in all…in other words an "essay" could be five- 4 picture combos  or 20 coherent photographs or two essays of 10 …

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disconnected

there was no internet…at least not for me that is….i thought i would be able to report to you from perpignan,…..however,  i secured a nice little apartment on a charming street and in a perfect location, but no internet connection… probably like most of you, if i go "off" the net even for a few …

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