This week's challenge is back to composition basics: Leading Lines
So… where will these lines lead?
I'm of mixed mind about the challenges this year: on the one hand, I'm not getting many models to volunteer to pose for me; on the other hand, maybe it's because the prompts aren't building an image in my head that requires hot sexy naked men, so I'm not trying as hard. Read More…

This week's theme is Anthropomorphism.
Things that look like people.
I know there are people who always see that - they see faces in everything - face pareidolia it appears to be called. Like the people who see Jesus in their tortilla. Read More…

This week we have to photograph technology.
Or we have to use technology in our photography.
Both work. Read More…

This week the challenge is either very complex or very simple; it depends on how you want to view it.
I've been thinking about it as the complex challenge, as I'm wont to do.
For me, this challenge is to photograph a subject but then also have something interesting in the background to capture the attention and take it away from the foreground subject and hold focus on the background.
I have been inspired by an episode of Community in this regard. Read More…

We think we know what it is, but we might be off.
People think of Marie Kondo and white-on-white decor, but maybe there is something about the Minimalist Art Movement that we've forgotten, or never knew to begin with.
So I've watched a series of lectures and videos from art professors and educators that go back to the origins of the 1950s and 1960s movement.
It was interesting, honestly. Read More…