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Abstract stream of water splashing off stones. Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

The Unity of the Photographer and the Photographed
by Mark Whitney
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 ...

Photograph of black rubber by Mark Whitney

Photographs: Gone in a Hundredth of a Second
by Mark Whitney
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 ...
Photograph of the Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge

Buy My Prints on Etsy
by Mark Whitney
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 ...
Photograph of train tower bolts by Mark Whitney

Pop, Deadpan, and Conceptual Photography
by Mark Whitney
Just as there are different styles of painting - cubist, impressionist, realist - there are different kinds of photography.

Today let's talk about three of those styles that have been on my mind lately ...

photograph by Mark Whitney

Trails of light
by Mark Whitney
When I was in the fifth or sixth grade I found a Kodak travel camera tucked away on the top shelf of the hallway closet buried under a pile of winter gloves and hats. It had ...

Photography in the Abstract
by Mark Whitney
Let's talk abstract photography. To do that we'll need to talk a bit about abstract art in general and to do that we need to talk about music. Stick with me here.

Imagine that ...

water photograph by mark whitney

Natural Aesthetics: Emerson, Thoreau, and Muir
by Mark Whitney
In my last post I mentioned a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson because all this talk of whether it is better to appreciate nature through the steady empirical eyes of science or the soaring imaginative eyes ...
Water photograph by Mark Whitney

Natural Aesthetics: Going Beyond Science
by Mark Whitney
In my last post, Appreciating Nature with Science, we talked about Allen Carlson's idea that the best framework for properly appreciating nature as nature is science. Knowing a bit of natural history and environmental science ...
Stones in water by Mark Whitney

Appreciating Nature with Science
by Mark Whitney
In my first post about appreciating nature we saw that appreciating nature as itself, as nature, and not as "the environment" or as merely a backdrop for our activities, etc. is a lot more difficult than ...
Artist: Mark D. Whitney, Media: Digital Photograph

Nat101: Nature Appreciation 101
by Mark Whitney
Remember those old freshman college appreciation courses like Art Appreciation 102? Classes that got you some easy credits and were intended to give you a well rounded education. You're fresh out of high school majoring in ...
Artist: Mark D. Whitney, Media: Digital Photograph

I’m Confused About Photography
by Mark Whitney
I'll admit it. I'm confused about photography - always have been and probably always will be.

The internet is awash with images. It seems that everybody's a photographer, but are they?

It's ...