Category Archives: a Saint John series

“I began to wonder – I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one – but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most … Continue reading →

“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving … Continue reading →

“Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.” – Ruth Orkin That might’ve been true for Ruth Orkin, but I’m not so sure it applies to all photography. It’s more than just making … Continue reading →

Random links. I don’t like every photo Dan Winters makes, but when I like them I like them a lot. Springsteen’s SXSW keynote is worth a listen. Joerg Colberg wrote a really popular blog post about how to make a … Continue reading →

I linked to a Martin Parr blog post a couple of entries ago where he mentioned the bent lamp post as a photographic cliche. I realized a lot of my photographs lately contain bent or off kilter sign posts, but … Continue reading →

“I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, ‘What relationship has it with what’s going on?’ I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting … Continue reading →

“Technically speaking, photography is not too terribly difficult. The difficulty lies in having ideas and following them through. You need a sense of purpose to carry out your projects. You need a firm resolve, hard work, earnestness in order to … Continue reading →

My favorite intersection shot of the series so far. I’ve been reading and looking at Sam Abell’s The Life of a Photograph (on sale at the Moncton Chapters/Indigo for $12.99!). The book is mostly just photographs from various points of … Continue reading →

All photography is about trying to impose order on a chaotic world. The world is sloppy. It needs a frame. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. In the above photo, 1 second earlier and he wouldn’t have been in … Continue reading →

A return to my longer term series for the next couple of posts. Light and shadow… light and shadow… It’s amazing how much the light changes in the first two hours of the day.

“This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to … Continue reading →