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Dealing With Nature – Part 4: When It Goes Bad…

Posted on November 22, 2019 by ndking

OK, why should you care about any of this woodsy stuff?  After all, we are all rushing headlong into 2020, for pity’s sake, the age of computers, robots, cell phones, the “internet of things” where everything is connected to everything … Continue reading →

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This and that… Upcoming stuff and Announcements

Posted on November 7, 2019 by ndking

The classes are posted at San Diego City College for Spring 2020 semester and it does look like the Landscape class will run – if – if enough people sign up for it.  This will be one of the most … Continue reading →

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Dealing With Nature – Part 3: Getting Equipped for an Adventure

Posted on October 23, 2019 by ndking

OK, so far in this series we’ve talked about the allure of landscape photography and how mastery of it can inform virtually every other genre you might work in; but there are issues and dangers you need to consider before … Continue reading →

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Dealing With Nature – Part 2: Staying Safe

Posted on October 11, 2019 by ndking

We’ve all seen those glorious landscape photos on cards, in books, as screen savers, in galleries and museums.  And for the fine-art photographer, landscape and nature photographs are the most common of the fine art subjects.  We all want to … Continue reading →

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Dealing with Nature – PArt 1: Letting It Talk to You

Posted on October 3, 2019 by ndking

To paraphrase Minor White, an iconic figure in photography and photo education, (and the author who co-wrote the book that made Adams’s “Zone System” intelligible to us mortals), if nature sees in you a heart it can trust, it will … Continue reading →

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Why Do (or Teach) Landscape Photography?

Posted on September 16, 2019 by ndking

I confess I’m getting really excited about potentially being able to do another Landscape (Photo 245) course at City. (For details click on the link in the banner at the top of this page.)  I’ve not yet heard if it … Continue reading →

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Vision and Simplicity

Posted on August 26, 2019 by ndking

One of my favorite photo-authors is David Du Chemin.  He writes with clarity and beauty about constructing the photographic image.  Among my favorites is “The Soul of the Camera.”  I could not possibly recommend that book and his writing in … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Stay Away from Teaching…

Posted on August 24, 2019 by ndking

As the cartoon character Cathy used to say… “Aaaaack!”  Retirement must be wonderful for people who do not like what they did for a living and are now free to go play as they always wanted to.  Good for them!  … Continue reading →

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I Wish I could Say I Was Surprised…

Posted on August 5, 2019 by ndking

I can’t tell you how much I’d rather be out making images and writing about them… but sometimes the world gets in the way. While still reeling from Gilroy then El Paso, we got Dayton.  I am not surprised though … Continue reading →

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See Something… Say Something — A Sad New World.

Posted on August 2, 2019 by ndking

Well, this will be a departure from normal photo topics.  But once again a horrible event has happened and I’ve had people ask for my opinion, given my somewhat unusual and rambunctious past and my book  on making schools safer … Continue reading →

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