The City of Bellingham, in Washington State, where I live, is a city of alleys. More precisely, the part of Bellingham that was built before the Second World War is a city of alleys, that portion of the city which lies more or less between the waterfront and the big highway that heads south to Seattle and north to Canada and Vancouver, arcing around the old core of Bellingham … [Read more...]
Andrew Molitor
Andrew became a mathematician about the time the internet became the world-wide-web, but fell in to software development by accident. After 25 years of that he's just Dad. All along, Andrew took pictures, some of them small ones, and formed opinions, some of them big ones. He lives in Bellingham, WA, with his beautiful wife and two small daughters. Andrew's slightly unorthodox ideas for the beginning photographer can be found here: http://intro-to-photography.blogspot.com/
Photography is Selection
Photography is not a creative act. Got your attention, did I? Don't worry, I'm not trying to take anything away from you, or from photography. At its very essence, its core, photography is an act of selection. You select a subject, or at least a general direction to point the camera, you select a point of view, a position; you select a frame; you select … [Read more...]
Breadth
Some years ago I was reading Henry Peach Robinson's book Pictorial Effect in Photography (a text from the 1860s) and ran across a compositional device he termed "breadth" under the discussion of chiaroscuro. I hadn't seen this term before and spent some time with his rather confusing description of it. The general idea, as nearly as I can tell, is this: while a photograph is … [Read more...]
Sequencing, Part 2
In these remarks I will try to present a more or less complete example of a book I have made on the Blurb print-on-demand platform. I treat this platform, largely, as a medium of expression rather than as a platform for selling. Normally, I will buy a handful of copies of a book for myself and to give away, and leave it at that. Without further ado: The Concept I've been … [Read more...]
Sequencing: Part I
Sequencing. The bane of the would-be book creator. This is the first of two pieces on sequencing, in which I pull together ideas from all over, as well a s some of my own notions. The point here is not so much to give you a method for how to sequence your own book (or other display) but rather to open your mind to possibility. Apart from the "minor details" of finding a … [Read more...]
