Window - peeling paint 2
originally uploaded by ryan_451.

I find what turns people on interesting—in terms of art, that is.  It can give insight into what that person holds as an ideal and what images he may aspire to make.  I look for inspiration in any number of things.  About a year ago I stumbled upon [...]

This is the next installment of the response to a student.
Digital photography and film photography aren’t as different as the publishing industry would have you believe. Much that has been written about film photography is just as applicable to digital photography. After all, a photograph is merely focused light captured on a substrate. Your camera [...]

Early in my art education (read: junior year of college) I had an internal debate of sorts concerning photography as a medium.  I wasn’t entirely convinced that photography was “art.”  I saw fellow students drawing and painting what seemed like masterpieces to me.  Each piece was proof of a single, creative endeavor, completely original.  That [...]

Faun painting, originally uploaded by ryan_451.

I had seen graphics tablets for sale on various sites for a while and had entertained the idea of buying one for some time.  Then one semester I audited an advanced Photoshop class and rather than buying a book, the professor required the purchase of a graphics tablet.  Well what [...]

A couple of months ago, I got an email from a student taking a photography class at Jamestown College.  The art professor had referred me to him as I have more experience with digital photography than she.  The following grew out of the response to a him and was published in Professor Cox’s column “Art [...]

I have two conflicting feelings: 1) I don’t want this blog to be dry but b) I also want it to appear at least somewhat professional. I have a feeling it’s going to be Option B because, let’s face it, it takes a lot of work to be this awesome. Maybe I’ll get my wit [...]