By Wayne Cosshall As I write this, I am in the middle of the month-long Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BFB) . It got me thinking about all the various ways in which we can benefit from participating in events such as this. There is one annual photo event I regularly attend, the Photo Marketing...
By Wayne Cosshall A lot of rapid progress can come in your photography when you integrate it with the other things you do in life. Photography can seem to be a very distinct activity in our lives. We shoot on social occasions, vacation, and on deliberate photo trips (such as my long trips into the country...
By Wayne Cosshall While this may sound very New Agey, sometimes it is the negative experiences that we learn the most from. This is as true in photography and business as it is in other aspects of life. At one level or another, most of us resist change. For example, unless there is a damn good reason...
By Wayne Cosshall Do most of your images start with pre-visualization? Or experimentation? Do you only work only one way or the other? Or do you swing both ways, photographically speaking? Pre-visualization is big in the arts. In your mind, you see beforehand what you want to show, capture or create...
By Jon Canfield Most of us got started in photography as a hobby—as a way to express ourselves creatively. Some were lucky enough to know what they were attracted to from the beginning, whether it was landscape, wildlife, wedding, or portrait photography. Others, myself included, had no firm idea of...
By Wayne Cosshall We all get bored sometimes: bored with ourselves, bored with others, and bored with what we're doing. Boredom with our photography can be a great kick to a new start. The other day I was bored. I was feeling somewhat agitated. I wanted to shoot something (with a camera), but had...
By Wayne Cosshall We all have them, the Creative Blahs, or CBs. Lugging the camera bag seems like hard work. You can’t be bothered going out. Or you go to a normally fertile place photographically, and nothing happens. Maybe you take one or two bad shots just so you can say you shot something. Even worse...
By Marc Aguilera Photography is one of the most joyful activities you can do with your time on this planet. I love seeing the world in its perpetual present moment and then capturing that moment as a digital memory. The Real Joy of Photography to me is capturing presence. I still need to learn how to...
By Wayne Cosshall As a kid, I was fascinated by the image. At first, I tried painting. But I was never satisfied with the results. As I attempted to teach myself painting from books at a young age, I had the mistaken notion that a painting was painted in a complete state from one corner and spread across...