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PHOTOGRAPHY

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

The Unity of the Photographer and the Photographed

by Mark Whitney March 18, 2018March 24, 2018
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 February 18, 2018March 17, 2018
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 February 10, 2018February 17, 2018
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 December 25, 2017February 17, 2018
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 December 16, 2017December 25, 2017
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 November 26, 2017November 26, 2017
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 November 19, 2017
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 November 12, 2017February 17, 2018
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 October 29, 2017
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 October 15, 2017February 17, 2018
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 October 8, 2017February 17, 2018
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 ...

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