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Photography – Camera V Light
© John Neel Photography is less about the camera than it is about the light. Truth is a form of light. Please have a look at some of my other posts here. I cover many photographic topics and...
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The Lines that are Landscape – Photography
Boot – © John Neel Orb – © John Neel Wall – © John Neel Rear Window – © John Neel There are boundaries to what a landscape might be, but those lines are still being drawn at an ever-increasing scale....
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The Romantic V The Real World
Tree – © John Neel “I love beautiful landscape as much as anyone. It is what I wish we could do more of. But unfortunately, we do not live in that perfect world any longer. It is critical to see what...
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Documentary V Fine Art – Photography
Shop Window – © John Neel In my Backyard – © John Neel Orb – © John Neel Market © John Neel Images need to be raised to some kind of heightened awareness to become art. Simple documentation doesn’t...
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Photography is a Frame of Mind
“Photography isn’t a picture contest. Neither is it a way to make friends. Rather, it is a way to expand your understanding of life. It is a way to evolve self. It is a way to show others what you...
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The Image is what matters
Man – © John Neel “The image is what matters. How it gets to be what it is, might be called photography. It might be called something else. It only really matters if it works. By working, I believe it...
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Framing Your Luck – Photography
Woman – © John Neel The luck of being in the right place at the right time implies a certain amount of foresight. Photography is a quest to find great images. But for me, it is best to look with some...
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The Echo…cho…ho…o…in a photograph
Street Portrait – © John Neel “There is an amazing and wonderfully serendipitous phenomenon that happens a lot in the work I do. I often see it in the works of others as well. It is perhaps a part of...
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WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU ARE
Shadow – © John Neel What you see and what you think has everything to do with what you create and who you are as an artist. Your art is supposed to be your own vision. We see you through the vision...
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RULES – What rules?
Dead Frog – © John Neel “The world doesn’t come to us in a frame of rules. Neither should photography.” – John “The world doesn’t come to us in a frame of rules. Neither should photography.” - John...
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…and nobody cares.”– Duane Michals
Docent – © John Neel “If you don’t know that you are amazing – then you have been completely devoured by the system – and nobody cares.” – Duane Michals Duane Michals: Collector from Carnegie Museum...
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The next pinhole day is April 26, 2015 – Will you be ready?
Pinhole – © John Neel WPPD Poster 2015 – © John Neel Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day will be here soon. Will you be ready? Each winter for well over a decade, I get the bug to build a pinhole...
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Art is the story of man and his/her world
Front Door – © John Neel Tree – © John Neel Art is best when the audience it was made for understands it. Art is made for all of us to experience. Art is meant to be understood. However it needs an...
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Babel Vision
Frame – © John Neel Visual literacy is not that common. In fact, it is extremely rare. Photography is no exception. To own a camera doesn’t make you a photographer or a critic. To simply look at an...
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The Camera Records Much More Than An Image
Cover – © John Neel “The camera records what is behind it – as much as it records what is in front of it.” – Author The photographer is as much the subject of the lens as the things shown in a...
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Series, Sequence and the Single Image
Easel – © John Neel Window – © John Neel The way I see it – there is a big difference between a series and a sequence. While I believe that every image should be as complete as possible, I also...
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The Numbness of Winter
Separation – © John Neel “Sometimes in the numbness of winter, you shoot what you can find to shoot. Cabin fever is a way to work your vision, to play with something new, and to look at the things...
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A strong feeling in photography is not enough
Rear Window – © John Neel When making a photograph – a strong feeling is not enough. The viewer can’t read your mind. A photograph needs visual elements that can lead the viewer to some kind of...
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Abstract Abstraction and Intention
Ball – © John Neel I believe that abstraction for the sake of abstraction probably has little to do with anything – especially art. Art needs a motive that elevates it from the ordinary and the...
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What Walker Evans Said
Priest – © John Neel “Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.” - Walker Evans...
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