A growing trend in the world of coffee, particularly espresso, is “single dosing.” Rather than fill a grinder’s hopper with beans that can begin going stale with exposure to air, the idea is to keep the beans sealed and as fresh as possible, only grinding…
The concept for this assignment was to mock up a cd cover for a classical quartet: the music is OP 11 by composer Samuel Barber. My first step was to listen to the piece to discover the mood and imagery it induced in me. I…
The P52 Assignment Brief: Still Life with Flower. A color, vertical (portrait) oriented still life image with ordinary objects, diffuse main light source, that must contain at least one flower, but the flower(s) must not be the subject of the image. The objects must be simple…
I’ve heard that what you do on New Year’s Day affects what you get to do the rest of the year, sets the tone sorta thing…. I don’t know about that, but New Year’s Day usually allows me to spend time doing something I love:…
A particularly fun and creative exercise that I learned from Don Giannatti is a photography ‘improv’ session: pick a subject/object/idea/theme and a time limit (say, an hour). Make as many good photographs in that time as possible. No limits on technique or methods: change lenses,…
