Musing April 2013
Musing From China Imagine you are seated around the table of a nice restaurant with 15 photographers. The wine and beer flows freely, and there is more food on the large lazy Susan in the center of the...
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The Limitations of Limited Editions I am often asked why I do or don’t edition my work. Historically the idea of edition prints came out of printmaking and is generally understood to mean a number of...
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Chasing Fog I love photographing in the fog. The perfect fog creates the effect of working in a giant soft box, with everything bathed by a soft, round light. Objects appear different in the fog. At a...
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Photography, a Universal Language On the eve of 2014 I have finished processing the last of the 6 boxes of 5×7 film I shot this year. In the morning I’ll start on the (approximately) hundred sheets of...
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Adapt, Migrate or Die The only constant in life is change. Whether looking at this from the perspective of an ecosystem or a species, life forms adapt, migrate, or die in response to the changes. In a...
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Lessons from the Fuji X Pro 1 I got more feedback from my last Musing about trying the Fuji X Pro 1 than almost any other I have written. Reactions ranged from “Welcome to the 21st Century” to “You’re...
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The Keys to the Kingdom I’ve been asked why I choose to teach workshops in such odd and unusual places as Alabama, North Dakota, along the Erie Canal or the Orkney islands? Perhaps the best way to...
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End-of-the-year musings… Isaac Newton, in a letter dated 1676, said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”. This statement should serve to humble us all, no matter our...
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Falling In Love Who hasn’t fallen in love with an image? You know the feeling. You’re looking through your contact sheet, your newly processed negatives, your downloaded files and you see the image....
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Passages We experience many passages in our lives, many marked with celebration. My family just celebrated two such milestones: Son, Andrew, graduated with Honors from Savannah College of Art and...
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Joie de Vivre Hearing your doctor say, “You are an interesting case” does not instill confidence of any kind. I spent three days in the hospital being poked and prodded this summer and left feeling...
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Work the problem, not the panic. My life as an athlete has been pretty sedate and no one today, or when I was a kid, would have ever confused me with a jock. However, I have participated in paragliding...
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Thoughts on Making a Book of Photographs Paul Caponigro and I have both been invited to exhibit at the National Art Museum of China this year. Paul just returned from his trip and brought home the...
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Curiosity, Kindness and the Travel Gene I have (mostly) recovered from my six weeks long Mandarin intensive in Guilin, China. I can honestly say that apart from marriage and parenthood it is the...
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What’s next? I have just had the most amazing experience of my professional life! On November 26th Alchemy of Light opened at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. I was completely unprepared...
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Close Enough isn’t and Good Enough won’t be I should have two trashcans in my darkroom – one labeled “good enough” and the other “close enough”. When I catch myself thinking a print is “good enough” or...
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Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” raises the question in my mind of “When was America great?” I think it’s a valuable question to mull on.
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Lessons from a Workshop The simple truth about being a photo workshop teacher is this, I usually learn more from my students than they learn from me. I have come to realize that my job is primarily to...
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A Project Evolves and an Obsession Ends Back in 2009 I became interested in photographing the Erie Canal. As a project it offered history and historic structures in contemporary use, it covered a...
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Dear Friends If you have visited the Tillman Crane Photography website in the last year you have noticed that we have not been as active as in the past. We hoped to completely redesign our web site but...
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