Thursday, September 05, 2024

Start of Fall Semester

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The 2024 fall semester is underway! Here's a first day shot from my Concordia University classroom: And a shot from my University of Mi...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Photography as "Mirrors" or "Windows"

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I've been reading "Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists" these last few weeks. I found an interesting...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

Olympic Triathlon Photographer

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Associated Press photographer David Goldman talks about the issues he needed to work through to photograph the Olympic triathlon and open wa...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

A Sweet Blast from the Past

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Two years ago, I posted about the sudden death of John Marshall , my undergrad photography mentor. Last year, I shared some photos from a w...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Movie Poster Project

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I shared a few movie posters at the end of fall semester from an intro to design course that I teach at the University of Minnesota. Here a...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Camera Lens Focus Modes

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I'm never going to see the "auto focus / manual focus" switch the same after this...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Color Naming Book from 1955

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I found this in one of the classrooms where I teach at the University of Minnesota: Figure out your Munsell notation (something I became VER...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Students Making Big Prints

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Just like we did last year , my students recently made some prints on the design department's 44" printer: [click to enlarge] Some ...