A glorious city in the sea.
I spent a week in Venice in March. Its my favorite city to walk with or without my cameras. A poem by Samuel Rogers perfectly frames the narrative arc of the images. The series ends with a faux-Venus statue in a storefront.
Empty Chairs in St Mark Square in Venice
Empty Chairs in St Mark Square: I was intrigued by vacant spaces – spaces that I certainly had not seen without hordes of people. The strongest presence in these images was what was absent from them.
The Rialto Bridge at Dawn.
In 1588-1591, Venetian architect Antonio da Ponte combined the form and function, the grace and dignity, with strength and permanence to rebuild the beautiful Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal.
Layering, dimensionality, and the composition in photography.
I invite you to consider three layers when composing your photographs: foreground, middle-ground, and background. What have you decided to include and equally importantly exclude in each? The choice of lens, exposure, composition, and aspect ratio all serve that vision.
The equation for Keeper rate: Time spent at a location is directly proportional to the quality of images.
The not so secret equation for the keeper images: The keeper rate is directly proportional to the time spent at the photographic location, or with the subject.