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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: February 2015

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Are You Fluent in Light? As most of you know, the word "photography" means writing with light. Okay. Some people say it means, "painting with light." Whatever. You say tomahtoe,. If you're a "painting with light" advocate, cut me some slack for a few so I can write this update. Pretty please? Indulge me for a moment or two and go with "writing with light" as being the word's meaning. Because there are those things called dialects. It's going to be all new adventures with my ca...

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: October 2014

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Friday, October 31, 2014. Throwback Thursdays on FaceBook are kind of fun because I sometimes use them as reminders to look at images I shot 5, 10, or more years ago and see how my style has changed, if it's changed much at all. I snapped the image on the left of Charmaine in early 2006. Wow! Almost a decade ago! Becoming more efficient in terms of using gear that's easier to transport, set-up, and strike. Saturday, October 25, 2014. For instance, while a fair amount of my skills and knowledge would tran...

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: Fine Craft Nudes

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Sunday, May 10, 2015. I've been shooting nudes and semi-nudes for a long time. In all that time, I've never perceived my work as being art. Fine Art Nudes, Erotic Art,. Or otherwise.) But I have and do perceive it as craft. In fact, I'm going to dub my work, Fine Craft Nudes. Or Finely Crafted Nudes, Crafted Nudes,. Or whatever floats my boat at any give moment, as long as it has the word craft. While there are people who label my work smut. At least it's craft-driven smut. So there! What I'm doing when ...

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: My Retirement Enigma

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Apparently, that one thing isn't happening for me. Leastwise, not the way I thought it would happen. What is that one thing I'm talking about that I thought would happen once I was mostly retired? I thought I'd be a much more productive hobby shooter. I mean, I have plenty of time on my hands. Plenty! Sounds like everything should have fallen into place, right? It hasn't worked out that way. The 80% that has me shooting-for-fun or for artistic reward? My hopeful transition from sh...

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: March 2015

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Three Degrees of Isolation. Okay Let's talk about Three Degrees of Isolation. (Note: Not to be confused with Six Degrees of Separation, a theory that says everyone is six or fewer steps away, by way of introductions, from any other person in the world. I don't know if I'm a believer in the Six Degrees of Separation theory or not, but I do believe the Three Degrees of Isolation helps make better photographs.). We do so, for the most part, in three ways by utilizing varying degrees...

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: April 2015

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Monday, April 27, 2015. The comment: "I was reading an article on portraiture in a 1981 issue of Camera Arts magazine that a friend just gave me. The writer made the observation that when the image of a skilled photographer is poorly conceived or lacks something to say its very easy for the photographer to make that image one where 'technique dominates meaning.'". Perhaps it's mostly me who believes so many of my pretty girl pics have a blank feel? What's the thing they say? They say, "Come fuck me.".

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: September 2014

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Thursday, September 25, 2014. I had an experience not too far back where my contact guy at a web site that does NOTHING BUT PIMP SHIT TO PHOTOGRAPHERS, declined to promote one of my more recent eBooks because, he explained, his "curators" didn't think some of my photos were quite good enough. Good enough for what? You're selling museum quality shit now? Excuse me but who the fuck are your curators and what the fuck are their credentials qualifying them to "curate" my pics or those of anyone else? For tod...

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: June 2015

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Monday, June 29, 2015. You Don't Need to be Creative to Make Art. I see plenty of photographic images which, in my mind, qualify as being "art" but aren't especially creative. (If they're creative at all.) In fact, there seems to be two kinds of artists and art: creative artists/art and not particularly creative artists/art. Neither is more or less qualified as "artists" or "art" than the other. They're just. different. Different kinds of art, that is. I don't think so. Were any of them art? Art it seems...

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PRETTY GIRL SHOOTER: May 2015

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Head Shots That Don't Suck (Part Three). Art made primarily to display technical virtuosity is often beautiful, striking, elegant. and vacant. What are some of those abilities and/or how do they manifest themselves when you're shooting? So, by all means. Develop your technical skills and continue working to make beautiful, striking, elegant head shot photos. But don't do so at the expense of emotions via expressions or in ways that produce "vacant" head shots. In othe...On this s...