The democratization of photography: S&R Honors George Eastman
Our lives are full of Kodak moments.
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Photography may have saved my life
One of the symptoms of depression is an addiction to rumination. The vicious cycle of negative thinking that strips us of energy and desire. It is precisely our obsession with working out what makes us unhappy that makes us unhappy. – Chris Corner You don’t walk away from something that was central to your very being for 35 years without
Read moreIs the Danny Evans/Planet Hiltron celebrity make under project promoting classism or combating it?
When I first saw this story on NY artist Danny Evans’s Celebrities Make Under project, my first reaction was…well, let me quote my Facebook comment directly: Oh, this…I mean…gods, no. They…WTF?! To summarize, Evans has used the magic of Photoshop to “normalize” (my word, not his) some of our artificially beautiful celebrities. “It was a reaction to the insanely over-retouched photos
Read moreArtSunday: a poet says goodbye to poetry
I wrote my first poem when I was a senior at Ledford High School in Wallburg, NC. It was called “Octoberfaust,” and while it wasn’t a terribly good poem, it wasn’t bad for a 17 year-old having his first crack at something brand new. My English teacher, a guy named Jim Booth, whom S&R readers may have heard of, was
Read moreHappy Solstice from S&R
ArtSunday: The DaVinci Gallery – a study in bracketing and High Dynamic Range
Lately I’m working not only on my actual camera ability, but also on better understanding the technology of processing images. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours in the DaVinci Machines Exhibit in Denver working on both composition and technical skills (shooting in lower light, for instance) and doing so with an eye toward how I’d be outputting the images
Read moreArtSunday: visit 5280 Lens Mafia, meet some great photographers
Not long ago I mentioned the launch of S&R’s sister site, 5280 Lens Mafia. 5280LM features a number of current and former S&R folks (writers, guest contributors, commenters, loyal readers) and the truth is that the project is off to a start I could barely have imagined. So if you missed it, I’d like to invite you to investigate some
Read moreArtSunday: US 285, South Park, Colorado
Junker – Ohio Creek, Gunnison, Colorado (variations on a theme)
Mr. Ed Goes to South Park
Aliens in the garden
Attack of the bamboo monsters
Blue, orange, purple, pink
A star is born
Our real photographer, the estimable Lisa Wright, is on vacation, so I ventured out last night, new camera in hand, to see if I could capture something vaguely interesting for our readers. As luck would have it, they were showing A Star is Born, the 1937 classic starring Janet Gaynor, on the lawn in front of the old Elitch Gardens
Read moreDenver Chalk Art Festival 2012: color, perspective, history, and coolness as far as the eye can see
I’m a sucker for chalk art, so I always look forward to the Denver Chalk Art Festival. I’m apparently not the only one, either, as the crowd shot below suggests. The crowds seem to be getting larger each year, too, and I suppose it’s easy to understand why. June in Denver, Larimer Square, fantastic artists – what’s not to love,
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lullaby pit 