What’s Wrong With This Picture?
I’ve just spent the last ten days creating new images on the Oregon coast. Conditions were wonderful! This is my latest addition to the “Monolith” series: Monolith No. 85 Specifications: Canon 5D Mark III, Canon EF 24-105mm f4 “L” lens set at 24mm ISO 50, f-22, 314.1 seconds using a Singh-Ray Mor-Slo 15 stop fixed ND… continue reading
It’s All About the Image…and Nothing Else Matters
Railroad Tracks It’s all about the image and nothing else matters. It doesn’t matter what awards the image has won. It doesn’t matter what gallery it’s in. It doesn’t matter how many prints have sold or for how much. It doesn’t matter if the image appeared on the cover of a magazine. It doesn’t… continue reading
New Video: Discovering Your Vision in Black and White
Several years ago a friend of mine, Greg McKean of Master Photo Workshops, shot a video featuring me in Death Valley. And through a series of unfortunate events, we were never able to finish it…until now. This video is entitled “Discovering Your Vision in Black and White.” It’s a two CD set: one shot in the field… continue reading
A Realization and a New Commitment
I’ve been driving a U-Haul moving van from Northern Colorado to Portland, Oregon for the last few days and instead of listening to my latest Longmire book on tape, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking…introspective stuff. I’ve come to realize that I’ve become less and less productive at creating new images and I’m spending… continue reading
Some of My Favorite Quotes on Vision
“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught – not like what I had seen – shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to… continue reading
Ten Things I’ve Learned in Fifty Years
Cole Thompson was one of the featured speakers at the 2014 PSA Conference. We heard so many good things about his talk that we asked him to write an article for the PSA Journal so those who were unable to attend the conference could read some of what he talked about then. Photos © Cole Thompson Ten Things I’ve Learned in Fifty Years by Cole Thompson I picked… continue reading
The Solution To My Canon 5DSr Problem
Searching The solution? I returned the camera. The 5DSr is not the right camera for my long exposure work. Cole
Lone Man No 30 When I speak to camera clubs, I’ve noticed that most of them have some sort of monthly competition and/or the critiquing of images. And if you’ve read my blog for very long, you know that I am not a fan of either. Starting with my article “Art is Not a Competition” and ending with my… continue reading
Spiral Jetty Sometimes it seems that everyone is either an expert or a critic! Show your work to 10 people and you may well end up with 10 different opinions about your image. Why? Because everyone has an opinion. So who should you listen to when it comes to your images? Family, friends, art experts, gallery… continue reading
Overshadowed I’ve returned from my first outing with my new Canon 5DSr and wanted to report back on what I thought of my first images. The image above was shot at 1/80 of a second and I was impressed with the quality. I was able to blow it up much larger than images from the 5D Mk… continue reading
