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Working With Nude Models
Working With Nude Models Earlier this year I co-taught a workshop titled “Photographing the Artistic Nude” at the SOPHA in Manchester, NH. It was a great opportunity to…
Abstract Photography
I don't have much time during the week to post, so here is one of my abstract images.
Photographing the Male Nude
Last time I blogged about “why the nude” as a photographic subject. But for a while I have been interested in photographing the male nude in particular. Much of my…
Margaret art nude
Why the Nude?
I’ve been asked “why the nude?” as a photographic subject. Nudity can be such a polarizing subject, bringing questions of objectification and sexuality to play. Then there is the “hasn’t…
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Color vs Monochrome
Decisions, decisions. I’ve been putting prints together for the upcoming New England Photo Review and this has made me take long hard look at what images to print in color…
An image that needs to simmer.
Letting Things Simmer
Sometimes I need to let things, ideas or images simmer. Such as when I like an image, but I'm not sure if I love it. Some images are easy. Some…
A Happy Accident
A friend of mine refers to her first child as a “happy accident”- the sort of event that you were not planning, but which works out wonderfully in the end. …
Self Image in Photography
The Mirror Series of art nudes deals with self image in photography and its inspiration for the came from several events. The idea to work with dull metal as a…