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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.

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Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Gallery: Flowing Water I
You can probably tell that I like to photograph water. It comes in so many forms that I don't think I'll run out of new ways to envision it anytime soon.

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Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Gallery: Flowing Water II
You can probably tell that I like to photograph water. It comes in so many forms that I don't think I'll run out of new ways to envision it anytime soon.

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Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Gallery: Abstract Reflections
I create these photos by capturing the ever shifting reflections of sunlight on the surface of flowing streams and shimmering lakes that I find while hiking.

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Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Gallery: Abstract Things
Abstract photographs of things as opposed to my abstract water photos. OK, a couple three of them might be water based.

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Photograph by Mark D. Whitney

Gallery: Light Trails
A piece of string, a small light, and my camera took me back to my childhood for some fun experimentation. Read about how I created these photos in my post, Trails of Light.

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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.

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