Architecture in black and white
A couple of weeks back, I published a post on urban photography, a genre I recently discovered and liked as it is closely related to street photography. So, when I went through my photos I recovered and re-discovered recently, I saw a couple of nice shots of business...
Skating California – Fortunate Data Recovery
What do you do if you want to feed your blog, but you did not get out in the streets enough to present new photos? Go through your old photos to perhaps discover pictures and see them in a new light thanks to your development in skills. But, the wish to go through...
What’s in my camera bag?
When I started my street photography journey approximately one year ago, I extensively read and watched reviews and tips on gear and all sorts of equipment. During the search for those helpful resources, I often came across blog posts and short videos, where (street)...
Happy juxtaposition
Summer is here and an academic year I thought to never end, finally made space for holidays (or working on my research projects). While bigger events are in preparation in growing the family from 3 to 4, I am back writing posts for the blog. From time to time, I was...
Looking down
One of the privileges of my work as an academic is that you often have the opportunity to travel for presenting your research at scientific conferences. And while the conferences are hard work - submitting papers, preparing presentations, discussing the research with...
Street art
When out in the streets, you probably already came across multiple forms of art - or street art - such as statues, sculptures, and tags. I consider tags often as a double-edged sword: often they are really beautiful and stand as an art themselves; in other cases,...
Framed compositions
Framed compositions present one important composition approach to photography and after last week's post on my first exploration of urban photography, I come back again with a couple of photos with a quasi-absence of people. Working with frame in frame compositions is...
Urban photography in black and white
On a recent occasion, I experimented with another type of photography, which is quite close to street in my understanding: urban photography. The trigger for that short adventure was a book again (probably a major vocational disease as an academic) by Eric Forey on...
Photographers in action
Recently, I read a nice tip in one of the ebooks on (street) photography: participate in a photo contest. So far, I considered myself a slightly advanced beginner in street photography and the thought to submit my pictures to contests did not yet really come to...
Sequences – continued
Since the re-discovery of Elliott Erwitt's work as a source of inspiration thanks to my daughter and resulting in last week's post, I went out in the streets looking for occasions to create planned sequences - and not an ex-post created one I presented in the post...
Sequences
Last week, I decided to look through the photography books I have on my bookshelf again for some inspiration. Seeing the books on the couch, my daughter started to be particularly interested in a series of three small books from the Photo Poche collection at the...
Standing out from the crowd
In my very first posts here, I explained that individuals - and often elderly ones - often attract my look as they often somewhat stand out from the crowd. This might be the case for example when they sit on a bench and everyone else is somewhat busy and hectic around...