2026-10-07Hello!This might be wonky speak, but I'm challenging myself to find something interesting without giving away the photo spot. If I have to depend on a local landmark to make the photo interesting, I'm not exercising creative muscles and making original work. Find something mundane and ordinary, make it...

2026-10-06Hello!More extreme ISO after yesterday's monochrome image. I think the digital noise is less obvious in this photograph because it's taken outside with oodles of sunlight, rather than the dark innards of an old piano.In this case, the noise is intentional to experiment with the limits of my camera. But I...

2026-10-05Hello!I've messed with two parts of the exposure triangle before: the shutter speed and the aperture. I can make motion go by in a blur and shorelines as clear as glass. I can make the sun peek through in starry spokes, and create that fancy depth look that smartphone cameras are trying to replicate.Now,...

2026-10-04Hello!Huge discovery. I've been going on and on about making sure the edges of the photographic frame don't create any distractions. I knew this was a common technique in photography composition (or composition in general art), but I didn't have the search term or keyword to look into it any deeper.I found...

2026-10-03Hello!I'm chasing something so specific I don't even know what it is yet. Catching the train to a new destination to get inspiration for photography at home. I only made it by a few minutes!Relying on the city to provide me interesting photographs is a crutch that I'm beginning to rely on too much. The...

2026-10-02Hello!I need to just take a list of "top ten interesting compositions" and get them done. Next photowalk, maybe. Because I haven't done the "frame within a frame" until now.For all my talk on leading lines in February, I haven't explored interesting compositions in photography for a while. The "frame...

2026-10-01Hello! It's October now.I wonder if I should have skipped this photograph today. It's foolish to be standing in the middle of a busy road (even though I was safe in the median) and I don't want any photograph of mine to become imitable behavior.Even still, the coloring isn't great and I don't think my...

2026-09-30Hello!If I had not insisted on experimenting with this photo, I might have thrown it out. And now, it's one of my favorite images.Hanging in my room is a bit of watercolor artwork that I purchased on the used market. It combines streaks and splotches of color on a white canvas, and it has levels of detail...

2026-09-29Hello!I designed my Philadelphia street photography walk to hit two points, with wandering in between the endpoints in case the wind takes me somewhere. This was one of those points. Well, this and City Hall.I like giving myself a set point to go somewhere, otherwise I'll be wandering the city for hours...

2026-09-28Hello!I hate to say it, but I think I've exhausted the interesting compositions from my local area. If I'm going to drive out anyway, I might as well head to the city and do some work there.The changing of seasons might serve to give me some inspiration, but an unfortunate amount of plans I've made as of...

2026-09-27Hello!This is director Lee Chang-dong, who presented his drama film Possible Love first to Venice and now to New York City. Before the screening, I photographed him during an afternoon photoshoot.I haven't been back at the red carpet since April, but when registration opened to take portrait photography...

2026-09-26Hello! Let me get the odd naming out of the way first.Each time I capture a photograph, my camera's default file name for new images is DSC, an underscore, and some unique four digit number. I've omitted the underscore here for technical reasons. It counts up from 0001, goes to 9999, and starts counting...