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Inkjet Paper Sizes for Full Frame Images Cameras
If you have a full frame camera, why not print a full frame image? Many inkjet paper sizes force you to crop to some degree. If you want to print a full frame image in all its glory you need one of Red River Paper’s inkjet photo papers in these sizes. Each size has enough...read more
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Three Ways To Save Money –A Lot Of It– On Inks For Your Printer
There are hree ways to save a huge amount of money on expensive printer inks without affecting the quality of your printed images. Let's take a closer look at each of them....read more
How To Create A Handmade Photo Book
You can easily create beautiful handmade photo books that you can give as gifts or sell. All it takes is the inkjet printer you already own. Here's how to do it....read more
Julia Margaret Cameron: Breaking the Rules of Victorian Photography
162 years ago, Julia Margaret Cameron, took this new invention called the camera and showed how, with the right handling and imagination, it could produce contemporary art to rival that of the old masters....read more
H. H. Bennett's Shot That Changed Photography Forever
A "The Snapper," was a stop-action shutter invented by 19th century Wisconsin landscape photographer H. H. Bennett. It changed the course of photography....read more
How This Dramatic Image Was Made
This image features the beach at Ersfjord, Norway, a stunning and well-loved spot on Senja Island. The view toward the ocean is flanked by mountains, creating a dramatic backdrop...read more
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Jacob A. Riis: The Camera vs. Social Injustice
Newly arrived immigrants in New York City during the late 1800s quickly found that rumors they night have heard about the “Promised Land†were just that; the streets of America were not paved with gold. In fact, if you were poor, just finding a place to sleep was incredibly difficult....read more
At the End of Courage: Recovering and Learning from a Life on the Road
Ellen and I are officially off the road. The last 8 years of our life have been completely consumed by our identity as modern nomads. And I've grown to hate that term. Not that I hate the travel or even life in a trailer, but the term “nomad†in the modern context has become (in some ways) synonymous with...read more
Artist AnnMarie Young: Alaska Called, She Responded
The day after AnnMarie Young graduated with a Studio Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, she was on a flight to Fairbanks, Alaska where she hoped to spend the summer painting landscapes. But first she had to find a reasonably-priced place to stay which isn't always easy to do in the 49th State, known for its high cost of living....read more
"Horse Of The Sea" Showcases Stunning Equine Photography by Tony Bonanno
This is a book about the horses, of course. Those magnificent white horses indigenous to the Camargue area of Southern France....read more
How Selfies Conquered My Inner Demons. Part 1
Kath Chapman reveals how the power of selfies can give photographers, artists and others a big creative boost....read more
Josef Hoflehner: Images of Frozen History
Josef Hoflehner, one of the world's renowned fine arts photographers, journeyed thousands of miles to photograph that penguin where explorers up and left everything as it was...read more
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Photo History: Willi Ruge’s Fall to Fame
A 39-year-old German photographer, with 20 years experience in photography, carried with him a bulky camera and was probably the world’s first parachutist to document his own jump...read more
Movie Backdrop Art Will Blow Your Mind!
By Arthur H. Bleich— Comparing painted backdrop art to photographic backgrounds which are used in productions today, they light better and you can interpret the reality...read more
Levison Wood: Photo Encounters With Strangers
by Levison Wood— For me, every single picture conjures a memory of an individual, a family or a whole community, and the stories that they shared with me. Moments in time....read more
Our National Parks Odyssey: Renaissance, Part Two
by Andrew Slaton— Part 2 of 2. 02/18/22. Looking back and reflecting on the beautiful memories, to see how far we’ve come, and to renew our resolve. We now have a plan....read more
Our National Parks Odyssey: Renaissance, Part One
by Andrew Slaton— Part 1 of 2. 01/19/22. Six full years of living as nomads. So many places feel like home these days, it’s hard to decipher what home really means anymore...read more
Isaac Wright: Stunning Cityscapes From On High
By Arthur H. Bleich— U. S. Army Sgt. Isaac Wright, stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. he retired and documented cities from tops of buildings, bridges, and other structures with his camera....read more
Kodak's Coloramas Still Resonate 30 Years Later
By Arthur H. Bleich— Kodak had come up with a new line of small cameras and wanted to sell lots of them along with its newer, faster, color print film. A perfect storm for a campaign...read more
Your Scanner Invites You to Create Exquisite Images
by Janet Dwyer— Often people who see my exhibition prints are floored by the larger than life detail, then stunned when told my ‘camera’ is a scanner. Learn Scanography....read more
Our National Parks Odyssey: Time Marches On
By Andrew R. Slaton— Open country captures my imagination. First I see, and next, the overwhelming desire arises to wander through it. To explore. To know it. It’s about being & being content....read more
How Two of My Images Grew Into a 55-foot-wide Mural
By Christine Pentecost— An auto dealership was looking for a huge photo panorama, 55 feet wide by 6 feet high of the Bridger Mountains to hang in their showroom. How I did it....read more
Kah-Wai Lin: Fine Arts Landscape Images
by Arthur H. Bleich— Five years ago, Dr. Kah-Wai-Lin, 38, changed the course of his life dramatically. From bringing his scientific "mind and methods" to his creative process....read more
Documenting Maine's Penobscot River Wilderness. Part 2
This article is Part 2 of wilderness photographer Zac Durant's solo canoe journey down the West Branch of the Penobscot River in Maine....read more
Documenting Maine's Penobscot River Wilderness. Part 1
By Zac Durant— The fierce intensity of the wind had carried my canoe out to the middle of the huge lake, where white caps were threatening to capsize it. Next?...read more
46 Photogs + 3 Years = 10,000 Images of NH
By Peter E. Randall— Documenting life in New Hampshire? It takes forty-six photographers, a three-year shoot, and that results in a full color hardbound book...read more
How Photography Helped Save My Life
By Michael Blanchard— I was arrested in February 2010 in Maine for drunk driving while attempting to drive to Boston to talk to my wife and try to repair the damage from our constant fights. I was the COO at a company in Maine and my wife was living in the city. She was my...read more
Our National Parks Odyssey: Heading In A New Direction
By Andrew Slaton— A cloudless, blue sky is excellent for just about everything except making dramatic photos. That’s what I had all summer in Wyoming. But it didn’t much matter to me. Low hanging scrub cedars dominate the immediate landscape. Concrete, ground up by time and pressure surrounds me. We are parked in a sparsely...read more
Dawn Wilson: Bears, Eagles, Foxes…and More
 By Arthur H. Bleich— Always interested in the outdoors, it was probably preordained that Dawn Wilson, 49, would eventually settle in Colorado and become a renowned wildlife photographer. Growing up in New Jersey, her active and creative life in high school continued through her college and post-graduate years. From an early age she developed a...read more
Pros Tell How To “Get The Photos Others Can’t ->”
By Michael Freeman— When you know in advance that a situation forbids photography, you first need to have a very good reason to flout authority, and then you need to plan how to shoot surreptitiously. This is the serious end of investigative photojournalism, and while you’re not likely to be facing the same challenges as...read more
