What’s wrong with this picture?
Have you ever tried swinging a big scythe like this one? It ain't easy believe me.
I grew up on a small farm that had a barn built by ...
About: Mark
Website: http://www.forestrat.com
Bio: This is a blog about the things I like - fine art photography, art in general, poetry, and technology. Sometimes I'll post as myself and sometimes I'll use one of my alter egos, Rufus McGurk the art guy or Marko-san the haiku poetry guy.
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Author: Mark Whitney
The One I’m Going to Take Tomorrow
The interviewer had asked Cunningham what was her favorite photograph from her seventy-five year career - "the one I'm going to take tomorrow". ...
Can a Photograph be Abstract?
I was reading an article on the Art Blart blog about an exhibition at the Tate Modern titled "Shape of Light: 100 years of photography and abstract art". The idea of the show ...
What does Music have to do with Photography?
You know that I believe strongly that photography is an art form (or at least it should be) and that I'm always frustrated by the fact that so many photographers concentrate only on the technical aspects ...
Gorey’s Worlds at David Owsley
You've probably seen some of Edward Gorey's work although you might not have been able to attribute it to him. He was a prolific 20th century American illustrator, writer, composer, artist, and playwright, ...
My Instagram Experience So Far
I've started an Instagram account for my photography. You can check me out at: rattus.in.silvam or you can see some recent posts on this blog page: https://www.forestrat.com/mwp/my-latest-instagram-posts/
After a ...
Paint Bots and Human Creativity
Last time we talked about how photo bots are changing photography. Of course photography is a very technical medium especially when done digitally so this is no great surprise, but what about something a little more ...
Some Machine is Doing That for You
Remember that song from Zager and Evans - 'In the Year 2525'? Anybody? No? Well look it up kids. Anyway at one point in the year 5555 they say that your legs got nothin' to do ...
The Unity of the Photographer and the Photographed
What's the relationship between an artist and the subject that they're expressing? More specifically for our purposes between a photographer and the thing photographed.
In my post Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a ...
Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a Second
I was reading the transcript of an interview with Lee Friedlander when one of his comments struck a personal chord with me. Best known as a street photographer, in the 1960s and 70s Friedlander developed a ...
Buy My Prints on Etsy
I often feature photographs that I've created, like the one above, on posts here at the Forest Rat blog. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get your hands on a print or two and hang ...