My creative background has intersected jazz with photography. The two artistic endeavors are eerily similar. Jazz and Photography continues to play important roles in my life and in so many others. Whether good or bad, we photographers always are se [...]
How do you react when faced with the unanticipated conditions at a landscape location, despite all the preparation possible? About ten to fifteen years ago, I authored a lengthy article on preparation. It has been published many times in [...]
Why? Every person who chooses to attend one of my workshops, of for that matter any another photography workshop, usually comes with at least one goal in mind. In my early days as an instructor, (and still do to a certain extent) I taught the how-tos [...]
Images and Text ©Jack Graham / Jack Graham Photography “The Two Most Powerful Warriors are patience and time” … Leo Tolstoy All creative people encounter many considerations not only in normal everyday life, but especially w [...]
©Jack Graham / Jack Graham Photography. All Rights reserved Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” …Albert Einstein “Everything is Composition” …. Lyle Mays In November 2020, I wrote a piece called the Path to C [...]
What’s it All about? ©Jack Graham / all rights reserved What is your personal quest? Where are you going, where is your photograph going? What’s it all about? These are just a few of the questions we photographer’s constant ask ourselves If you are n [...]
As photographers, we all have the desire to make that artistic, compelling image that communicates a story, and our emotions to the viewer every time we depress the shutter. If we don’t why are we photographing? The purpose of this writing is to go b [...]
© Jack Graham All Images made with FUJIFILM X-T2 and FUJINON lenses filters from Breakthrough Photography Forks, WA April 18, 2017….…I am a photography workshop leader. As one, I am constantly looking for new locations to bring my a [...]
Using ExifTool technology, an analysis of camera brands, lenses and how folks photograph ( data including most often used ISO settings, exposure etc) has been compiled. This information is based on about 6.7 million images from sites like Flicker, 5 [...]
I returned home yesterday form a 3 day workshop that I conduct for the Pacific Northwest Art School on Whidbey Island. Whidbey Island is a sort 20 minute ferry ride either from Port Townsend or Mukilteo north of Seattle by about 1/2 hr. Once you get [...]
