When’s the last time you printed a photograph of your best friend, your child or your parents? Now that the holiday season is concluded, we all likely have a lot of photographs of friends and family and places we visited. Make sure you spend some time printing those photographs of the things that matter to you so you can share and preserve those memories.
It turns out that the “small stuff” is really the “big stuff.”
Photographer Jerry Uelsmann once said something like, “while you can memorize the dictionary, it doesn’t mean you have anything to say afterwards.” The idea of course is that craft is not content. While the mechanics of photography can be a point of refuge for many image makers, photography’s power exists in an image’s message.Ansel Adams said that there is nothing worse than a sharp photograph of a fuzzy idea. Jerry Uelsmann said that while you can memorize the dictionary, it doesn’t mean you have anything to say.
