Category: Photo Challenges

If you’re a regular reader, you’ll have heard me suggest you call up a photo buddy, list “meeting fellow photographers” as a perk of attending

What’s a Here without a There? We’ve talked before about how the ways we get to other places become as meaningful as those places themselves.

Standing in an interminable line and questioning the necessity of the small assortment of groceries I was waiting to buy last weekend, I was struck

Hello out there, photographers getting inspired! For those clicking through for the first time, the half-week homework is a challenge, every Wednesday, meant to provide

Creating an image of yourself used to be a bit of A Thing; some painters were specifically known for it, it’s recognized as a unique

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” Jack Kerouac, On the Road Day or night, if we’re going in America, it’s probably in

#foodie. #nomnom. #foodporn. #eatingfortheinsta. The hashtags may vary and stand-up comedians may complain, but one thing is undeniable: we love taking pictures of our food.

Fun fact: there are no truly violet images in this article! Modern imaging sensors capture colors using a mixture of red-, green-, and blue-sensitive pixels,

Not the afternoon but not the evening, not the beginning of the week nor the end, not yet autumn but finally past the heat of

The sky was pale, the day was gloomy Boy your eyes burned through me Thought that I knew what colors were Ha ha ha, ha

Installment four in our rainbow series, the middle initial of the lustrous Mr. BIV, is one of the most linguistically interesting of the colors. Its

Is there a more complicated color than yellow? I may be biased (big fan of the color), but I would argue that there is not.

The breeze finally starts to cool at 7:22, micro drops of the approaching night borne tantalizingly down the mountain astride the languid rays of a

With this challenge, we begin to think chromatically. Over the next several weeks, I’d like to challenge you to give enthusiastic attention to each of

OK, OK, I’m being a little tongue-in-cheek. Even so, it’s undeniably a great way to freshen up your photography, and your life. When was the

Part of creating in any art form includes finding fodder for your own inspiration. The key step between turning on your camera and getting incredible

A great deal of the meaning in our lives comes from time, and will continue to do so until someone cracks fourth-dimensional travel. As a