Museo Fine Art papers has just published a comprehensive description of our recent Les Picker Fine Art images at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland. If you are interested in understanding what goes into an installation of more than 60 images- from traditional prints to face-mounted plexiglass and huge wall coverings- check this out.
 
 

To paraphrase the famous Shaker song, simplicity is a virtue. I’ll add my voice to that song any day when it comes to photography.
What I mean by that is what I often refer to as ‘essence.’ I’ve addressed this issue recently in a blog I called “Finding the Essence.” I’d like to take that a step further in this blog. When we are out in the field and observe a landscape that we want to photograph, we are often swamped by the sheer detail in the scene. Landscapes, after all, …

It’s the end of another spectacular Fall Maine Nikonians workshop. Frankly, I’m sorry to see it end. Coastal Maine in the Fall is a joy that every landscape and travel photographer should experience. There are, of course, the quintessential rocky coast images to be captured, but there are also the birch forests, tree-lined ponds, bogs, waterfalls, lighthouses, and thick-cushioned, undulating moss that fluoresces in the rain or fog. There are quiet, picturesque villages like Somesville, and hard working lobstermen and women in their colorful boats in towns like Southwest Harbor, …

I received the following email a few days ago from one of my regular blog readers.
Les,
As an experienced and successful photographer I would appreciate your thinking on something that has bothered me for a long time. There is no end to the array of photography products that are introduced: cameras, lenses, etc.  There is always something new to be found in photography periodicals, store advertisements (e.g. Adorama, B+H )and so on. I ,for one, simply can never afford to get into that game and there has to be some …

Every so often I like to challenge my readers with a photo assignment; not a meaningless exercise  to fill blog space, but one based on a photographic experience that I recently had. That was the case with this next assignment. My hope is that you will find it as challenging as I did.
The back story is that I was in Iceland recently and found myself at the famous iceberg beach, an experience to which I had looked forward for years. Unfortunately, the photo gods had a good laugh that day …