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Part IV Of A 6-Part Series By Harvey Stearn
Over my past 72 years of making photographic images, I viewed myself as a Nature photographer. Lately, I’m not so sure, as my photography evolved more broadly toward graphic art in rich natural color and monochrome images of subjects found in human environments as well as in Nature. 
My photographic inventory includes many images made on impulse in cities visited during vacation travel. What they have in common with Nature photography is that they are graphic and colorful, and often tell stories. They fit a lesser-known branch of photography called “Cityscapes”, and in many cases also belong to an important specialty known as...

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