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 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 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...