Create Rather Than Capture A Sense Of Place

The Epoch Times provides this interview article with Erin Babnik. From the piece, “Babnik approaches photography from an artist’s perspective.”

From The Epoch Time Bright website.

2022 Minimalist Photo Winners

Petapixel offers this piece – The Winners of the 2022 Minimalist Photography Awards

Photos by Daniel Dencescu | 2022 Minimalist Photography Awards – Petapixel Magazine

Photography Genres For Beginners

MakeUseOf (MUD) has an article about eight genres for beginning photographers to consider. Sometime getting back to basics is a good idea. Here’s how it starts…

Even if you’ve just picked up photography as a hobby, there’s a genre for every photographer’s taste and ability. And almost every genre has multiple sub-genres.

The article covers: portrait, landscape, food, product, event, street, still-life, and abstract.

Ice Cream Cones

Diane Savioli-Chase is exhibiting a series of photographs she’s taken through the years – ice cream cone signs. The exhibit will run through August and into September.

PetPixel Discusses The Blue Hour

Here’s a piece from PetaPixel that does a nice job discussing the Blue Hour Time just before or after the golden hour that photographers cherish…

A photo from PetaPixel that demonstrates the “Blue Hour”.

25 Years Of Digital Photography

Petapixel does a nice job explaining how digital photography took over and dominated in the newspaper world. From the point of view of a newspaper reporter, we get this insight.

PopPhoto: Intro To Microscopic Photography

Tools and techniques are covered in this piece from PopPhoto.

From PopPhoto: “…malignate, a North American mineral…photographed using polarized light..”.

HEIC Files – why we need them

DP Review offers this article about HEIF files. If you’ve ever wondered about them, here’s something to help with understanding. It can get a bit technical, but take from it what you need.

2022 NECCC Conference – last one!

According to NECCC – the New England Camera Club Council (VPC is a member) – this year’s conference will be the last in-person one they will hold. It looks like time, and Covid, have taken their tolls.

If you register before June 24th and save up to $40 – their Early Bird rate.

Check out neccc.org for information.

This years lineup has some amazing photographers presenting, including Scott Kelby, Franz Lanting and Billie Wiess.

16 Types of Landscape Photography

Here’s an interesting article from PetaPixel about the different types of landscapes. The author suggests there are more. He didn’t mention, for example, anything underwater but he then says he did so because he doesn’t do underwater photography. Makes sense. Can anyone come up with other types? Use comments and tell us about it.

From an article about landscapes in PetaPixel…an interesting read.