My book of art photography showing the making of Nashville’s tallest residential skyscraper, 505, is being printed this week. Residents of the new building will all receive a copy of the completed book. Many of the photos in the book show the building in all its unfinished glory, but much of the focus of the project, pardon the pun, was on the construction workers...
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I am pleased to announce that The Copper Vault in Springfield, Tennessee, will be hosting a month-long exhibition of my photographic art in March of this year. I am currently selecting about a dozen images for the show, including this abstract image showing one Nashville glass tower reflecting in another. In February, The Copper Vault is showing a series of prints...
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The most recent updates to the operating systems for Apple’s iPhone and Mac computers included new “filters” for their “Photos” application on both devices. I just ran a test of one of the filters on the exact same image on both my iPhone and my iMac and … they do not produce identical images. I took a photograph I made with my Canon 5D...
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Three of my images have been accepted into the annual SNAP Photography Exhibit, a show featuring selected works by some of Nashville’s best fine-art photographers. The Society of Nashville Artistic Photographers‘ annual juried show, hosted by the Gordon Jewish Community Center, features 40 images, this year chosen by fine-art and commercial photographer Jerry...
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This might be the nicest email I’ve ever received from a stranger about my photography. No, it definitely is. Bill, Thank you for your gallery of the future 505 building located in the lobby of the Fifth/Third building downtown. Your gallery has answered some deep subconscious questions of mine as an employee for Jimmy John’s and as a photographer myself. Let me...
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A new exhibit highlighting unique locations in Nashville’s history, “Hiding In Plain Sight,” has opened at the main Nashville Public Library featuring photographs by Nashville painter and photographer Anna Jaap and journalist Robert K. Oermann. The exhibit tells the stories of hidden historical locations around the Music City, including homes where Hank...
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NASHVILLE, February 17, 2017. – So this is it. This is the one-year anniversary of when the doctor told me without saying so that I probably had cancer. I had done my own research and knew it was either that or something else, and while the something else was far less likely given my overall symptoms, I allowed myself to tell myself that’s what it was. The...
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Knoxville Rain, my image of downtown Knoxville’s Gay Street bridge in a pouring rain, is now on display printed 20 feet wide at a tuxedo store being renovated in Knoxville. The owner found the image online somehow, loved it, and they asked me yesterday if they could license it. I said yes, and less than 24 hours later it’s already printed and on their...
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As a professional photographer, my current primary focus – pardon the awful pun – is a major project documenting the construction of a history-making skyscraper in downtown Nashville. The 45- story tower will be the tallest residential tower in the state when it is complete in late 2017. My client is having me photograph the project from start to finish, and...
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Photography for a business publication is at high-risk for boredom – after all, a lot of “business” involves people sitting in cubicles or office. But Nashville Business Journal photographer Nathan Morgan has a knack for finding the art in business. Check out his 50 favorite images from the year 2016 here. This portrait of Dr. James Hildreth, the new...
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Nashville photographer Jeremy Cowart “is putting tragedy in a different perspective by having families who lost everything in the Gatlinburg fires lie on a mattress in the place where their bedroom used to be,” says WKRN-TV. “If you use creativity and good ideas, you can keep the world interested in a cause,” says Cowart. A fascinating story about...
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From Nashville’s local newspaper: Abandoned prisons, forgotten nuclear sites, precarious rooftops, derelict nursing homes and overgrown airplane hangars are just a few of the locations East Nashville urban explorer Jeremy Abbott has documented on his Instagram account, @AbandonedNashville. Since starting the account in March 2015, Abbott, 28, has not only explored...
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Movie Lovers Image included in the Society of Nashville Artistic Photographers’ exhibition of cinema-inspired photography at Provence in Hillsboro Village, Nashville, in conjunction with the reopening of historic Belcourt Theatre. Limited-edition prints available for purchase, up to movie-poster size. Inquire using the contact...
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An exhibition of fine art nature photography by Tennessee native Benjamin Walls will open at the Tennessee State Museum on July 1. Entitled Through Appalachian Eyes: The Fine Art Photography of Benjamin Walls, the exhibit will feature more than 50 nature images taken by Walls from Appalachia to Africa. Walls is a self-taught fine art photographer who has been...
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I am, once again, shooting film as well as digital. A few weeks ago I went on eBay last week and spent about $50 to buy this Pentax 35mm film camera just like the one I had when I was in college in the early 1980s. Yes, I’m that old. For you Pentax fans, it’s the ME Super model. It’s manual focus but has an automated exposure mode as well as manual. I...
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IV In early March 2016 I was diagnosed with cancer, and very quickly scheduled for surgery to remove the tumor. Once I recover from the surgery I’ll begin chemo and radiation. I’m not looking forward to it, but it beats the alternative. I took this shot, of the IV machine beside my hospital bed with my iPhone the night after my surgery. Or maybe the second...
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In May 2011, while on vacation in New Mexico, I spent part of a day photographing the work of a faith-based ministry that deliveries lunches every day to homeless people on the streets of Albuquerque, and later also at a “soup kitchen” at a church. I gave some of the photos to the ministry – they were used in a slideshow at a fundraising dinner –...
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Take a half-hour of your day and watch this amazing video from Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowart. It’s only sort of about photography. It’s really about the power of faith.
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Nashville photographer David McClister’s work focusing on the Americana music artists will be on display at Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Cafe for the next several months. From a report in Sidelines, the student newspaper of Middle Tennessee State University: Debuting in conjunction with the 16th annual Americana Music Festival, the collection of 32 prints...
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Photographer David Morel‘s abstract images of Nashville, the third installment in Nashville Arts Magazine’s “Abstract Nashville” series, are really, really good. (I was the second photographer featured in the...
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The London Telegraph takes a look at the amazing Hollywood portraiture of Tennessee-born photographer George Holz, featured in a newly-released book, Holz Hollywood: 30 Years Of Portraits Throughout the Nineties, he was the go-to photographer for entertainment and women’s magazines looking for a celebrity portrait. Stars would also ask for him by name; they warmed...
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An exhibition of a collection of works by photographer Vivian Maier continues at Nashville’s Sherrick and Paul Gallery through August 15th. This is a must-be-seen exhibition of 32 black and white images, a mix of street photography and self portraits taken between 1950 and 1971, including several newly released prints being shown for the first time. Maier was...
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Nashville Arts published seven of my abstract images in the June 2015 print edition of the magazine, the second installment in the magazine’s ongoing “Abstract Nashville” series. Three of the images are on the magazine’s website. All seven are presented here. Junkpile – PSC Metals on the east side of the river downtown Country Music Hall...
Read MoreI’ll have about a dozen images on exhibit at the RAW Artists show, “Splendor,” in Nashville on June 18. Purchase a $15 ticket to the show through this link and I’ll mail you a black & white 9×6 print of one of my...
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Musica in the Snow Nashville 2015 Musica is a sculpture at one end of Nashville’s famed Music Row, overlooking the fast-growing Demonbreun Hill neighborhood. The bronze sculpture by Alan LeQuire sits in a grassy knoll at the center of the Music Row Roundabout at Buddy Killen Circle, across from Owen Bradley Park in the Music Row area of Nashville, Tennessee....
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The New York Times writes about University of Tennessee photojournalism professor Robert Heller’s 22-year project involving student photojournalists documenting a single small Tennessee town. From Telling Stories in a Tennessee Coal Town: A great deal has changed in the world of photography since his first class published its special edition in The LaFollette...
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Imaging USA is the longest running national photographic convention, expo and image exhibition in the United States, drawing thousands of professionals from around the world. Dating back to 1880, when it began as the annual convention and trade show for Professional Photographers of America, the event is always growing and evolving. Major components of Imaging USA are...
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I recently completed a six-day photo assignment shooting on a golf course in South Carolina for a hotel company, which will use the images as part of decorating the rooms at the adjoining hotel after a renovation. I’m not a golfer, so my approach to the subject matter was much the same as if I was out west, or in some National Park somewhere, photographing scenic...
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I’ve blogged about Nashville photographer Jeremy Cowart before – specifically, about his work on marketing campaign for Saint Thomas Hospital. Now, Mashable.com has a broader profile of Cowart and his work. From Mashable: He says what’s more important than taking a good picture is finding one’s vision and figuring out what it is you have to say to...
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Nashville’s newest art gallery will feature fine-art photography from established international names like William Eggleston and Vivian Maier. The gallery, Sherrick & Paul, opens Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, at 438 Houston Street. The gallery’s Inaugural Exhibition includes the work of established and international contemporary artists and photographers,...
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An exhibition of photographs taken by University of Tennessee photojournalism students over the past 21 years opens at the State Museum on October 3. The exhibit entitled, Eyes on LaFollette: UT Student Photojournalism Project Marks 20 Years, has been organized by Robert Heller, professor, University of Tennessee School of Journalism and Electronic Media, in partnership...
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Before she became a famous author, Eudora Welty worked as a junior public relations officer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression, and she interviewed people of all social and economic classes throughout her home state of Mississippi. In her spare time she also photographed these people, capturing daily life amid difficult economic...
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The Boston Globe reviews an exhibition of photographs by New England photographer Henry Horenstein that has a Nashville connection. The exhibition is drawn from the photographs in Horenstein’s book, Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music, runs through Oct. 17 at Endicott College’s Heftler Visiting Artist Gallery in Beverly, Mass. Honky Tonk is a collection of...
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The Nashville Sounds baseball organization very nicely granted me a media pass to the team’s last home game in Nashville’s Greer Stadium, and I spent most of the game photographing the stadium itself rather than the game. The Triple-A team, part of the Milwaukee Brewers farm system, moves into a new ballpark just north of downtown Nashville in 2015, and the...
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Sale on fine-art photography here at BillHobbs.com, for a limited time. While I normally price 15×10 prints at $250, I am offering a limited number of prints for $100 or $125 for two prints (can be two different images). For smaller-size prints, sale pricing is as follows: 12×8 prints: $60 for one print, $100 for two. 9×6 prints: $50 or $90 for...
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Scott Walker’s street photography “conveys stories that you have to study,” says the Murfreesboro Post, and I have to agree with them. Walker’s black & white photography is fantastic. Walker is president WGNS, a talk radio station based in Murfreesboro. “He seeks out the homeless, the poorest among us. Walker’s street photography...
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Noted Nashville photographer Jerry Atnip interviewed 5-time Grammy winner Marty Stuart for South X Southeast Photomagazine about Stuart’s 40-plus years of photography, noting that Stuart, with image “images like Johnny Cash’s Last Portrait, Bill Monroe’s Last Winter and Cash & Haggard’s Last Meeting,” is “creating a body of...
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St. Thomas Health is a Nashville hospital system founded 116 years ago by the Daughters of Charity. It recently launched a new marketing/branding blitz with the tagline “Nothing Shall Be Impossible,” and the still photography for the campaign, by Nashville photography Jeremy Cowart, is wonderful. “Every once in a while, a gig comes along that qualifies...
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I might have to make a trip to Los Angeles before this photography exhibition closes. The Annenberg Space for Photography is presenting Country: Portraits of an American Sound now through September 28, 2014. The exhibit presents images of the pioneers, poets and icons of country music, Guest curators for this exhibit included Shannon Perich of the Smithsonian’s National...
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I recently was able to interview country music traditionalist Marty Stuart about photography. Stuart, who had a string of country hits in the 1990s and now carries to torch for traditional country and bluegrass music, has been a photographer on the highways and backroads of America since he was a teenager, photographing such legends and luminaries as Bill Monroe and...
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A mysterious nanny, who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers and discovered decades later, is now considered among the 20th century’s greatest photographers. Maier’s strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never before seen photographs, films and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her. The...
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The Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN, is exhibiting a suite of Andy Warhol portraits by renowned photographer Raeanne Rubenstein. Rubenstein’s exhibit, The Fascinating Mr. Warhol, is on display through May 4th. The exhibition also includes dozens of small photos taken by Warhol himself using a Polaroid Big Shot camera that he purchased in 1974. As...
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Interesting article in The Tennessean by writer Frank Daniels III looking at the career of inventor Nicéphore Niépce, credited with making the first photograph. He apparently made some photographs around 1816 and developed the first photogravure process in 1822. His photoengraving of Pope Pius VII is considered the first photographic etching; the etching was destroyed...
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Country music traditionalist Marty Stuart is also an accomplished photographer, and an exhibition of 66 of his amazing black & white images, including the last portrait taken of Johnny Cash before he died, is coming to Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts in May 2014. Details to come… A few years ago, NPR aired a nice report on Stuart’s...
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I’m starting to spend some time in East Nashville, where I have not done much photography before. The area is gritty, urban, gentrifying – and rife with photographic...
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The Downtown Artist Co-Op in Clarksville is hosting its third annual Regional Juried Photo Exposition all this month at the co-op’s gallery space at 96 Franklin Street. Regular gallery hours are noon-6 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday. The image shown is “Concourse” by Shane Moore. The Downtown Artist Co-Op is an association of talented local artists and...
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Murfreesboro’s Center for the Arts is exhibiting photographs by the women of f/4 studio, now through the end of...
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I learned this morning that this photograph of mine, entitled Mosca, has been selected to appear in an exhibition of black-and-white images at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. The selections were made by Karen E. Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and – considering the quality of the images selected in the juried...
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Brentwood Photography Group president Jerry Atnip is involved with a number of interesting photo workshops this year. In August, 2014, Jerry will lead a photography trip to Costa Rica, featuring visits to a volcano, hot springs, rainforest, mangroves, coffee plantation, flora, wildlife, villages and urban life, to name a few. More information can be found at...
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I recently interviewed legendary country/pop singer Kenny Rogers about … photography. Rogers is an accomplished fine-art photographer, with three books published. His black-and-white landscapes lean heavily on the inspiration of the legendary American photographer Ansel Adams. That’s no surprise given Rogers’ early days in photography were guided by...
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Nashville Arts Magazine has a nice article on Russ Harrington, Nashville’s top celebrity photographer. Sixty-two of Harrington’s portraits of such stars as Loretta Lynn, Brian Setzer, Hank Williams Jr., and others too numerous to list, are currently on display at the Tennessee State Museum in an exhibition called Shooting Stars: Celebrity Portraits by Russ...
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I have recently begun displaying some of my images at The Good Cup, a coffee shop in Franklin, Tennessee, and making matted, framed and limited-edition prints available. My first two images on the wall at The Good Cup are Great Sand Dunes (photographed at Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado) and Inside Out, photographed at Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin,...
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From ArtDaily.org, a story about a new photography exhibition at Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts: The work of Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer will be on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts from July 12 through Oct. 13, 2013 in the Center?s Upper-Level Galleries. The first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work, Jack...
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The April 2013 edition ofIslands magazine has some amazing photos taken in Cuba by Canadian photographer Ian Lloyd, including this one of a Cuban photographer using a very old camera. Very, very old. Lloyd’s commentary on the photo is fascinating to think...
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The Vanderbilt University Department of Art welcomes to Space 204 an exhibition of compelling photographs by Jeremiah Ariaz. On display from Thursday, Feb. 21, through Thursday, March 14, Tucumcari documents a once thriving and now uncertain New Mexico community. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4 to 6 pm. The Tucumcari project, four years in...
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On December 31, 2012, I concluded my 366 Days project, an attempt to force myself to think visually by committing to produce one new image every day. I missed two days in the first 19 days of January, but managed to miss only four more days the rest of the year. You can see the 360 images here on a Tumblr site. Some include a bit of commentary, most don’t. Some...
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From MoyModernMet.com: “There’s something incredibly fascinating about viewing the world through upside down reflections, taken through puddles on the street. it’s like we’re seeing the world with a new set of eyes, a perspective most of us are not really used to. It may take a second or two for your eyes to get adjusted to what’s really...
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“Photographer Ron Henry knew his camera strap was a winner. Now he just needed to get the word out on the cheap,” says Inc. magazine in a profile of BlackRapid, which makes a series of innovative camera straps and accessories. This story combines 3 of my favorite things: photography, entrepreneurism and social...
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For the past four decades photographer Jim McGuire has photographed Nashville’s musical artists, creating a collection of images that The Tennessean’s Peter Cooper rightfully calls “delightful when considered for its artistic value and crucial when considered as a historical documentation of Music City’s musicians.” Cooper continues:...
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So much for the megapixels war. Researchers at the Duke University Imaging and Spectroscopy Program have built a supercamera that can take gigapixel pictures. That’s 1,000 megapixels. InnovationNewsDaily.com reports on the new gigapixel camera’s technology, which researchers say could have military, commercial and civilian applications. The gigapixel camera...
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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville is featuring an exhibition of the works of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The Frist Center describes Burtynsky’s work as documenting “the topographical landscape as it has been irrevocably altered by industries that feed the world’s appetite for material goods.” Says The Frist Center:...
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Do not miss the fantastic exhibition of portraits by Juan Pont Lezica now at the Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park. Nashville Arts magazine explains: “Juan Pont Lezica’s new series of photographs, which may well have started life as a whim, has blossomed into a meticulous, quirky arcade in which much-loved art masterworks have been re-cast with living...
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Check out the photography of Barrett Hedges, a photographer from Tullahoma, Tennessee, whose photograph of a charging brown bear in Katmai National Park in Alaska won a National Geographic award in 2010. Good stuff. I purchased a small print of another of his images, of an ice-encrusted tree in Yellowstone National Park, after meeting Hedges at his booth at the Main...
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The resolution of the 8-megapixel camera in the iPhone 4S is rather astonishingly good for such a small lens and sensor. Here are a couple photos I took today of a similar subject. One photo was taken with my iPhone 4S, the other with a Canon 5D Mark II equipped with a Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 zoom. The Canon is a 21-megapixel pro-level camera. Neither photo has been altered...
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West Coast commercial advertising photographer Tim Mantoani has captured famous photographers posing with their most iconic images for his new book ‘Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends’. (Click link or thumbnail to buy the hardcover book at Amazon, $37.80. There also is a limited edition version that costs more.) Yahoo has some of...
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Here is some absolutely stunning time-lapse cinematography of Yosemite National Park. The video is the result of a collaboration between videographers Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. You can see more on their Project Yosemite website. Be sure to expand the video to fill your whole...
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I went out and shot some pictures with an old Nikon F camera today – first time I’ve shot non-digital in almost a decade, and first time I’ve shot film with something other than a disposable camera in about 15 years. The camera – similar to the one pictured here. belonged to my granddad, Howard Forrest Henry. He used it to create photographs in the...
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Kodak teeters on the brink of oblivion. Yahoo! Finance economics editor Daniel Gross summarizes the fall of the iconic brand founded more than a century ago by George Eastman: “In many ways, George Eastman would be enthusiastic at the democratization of film. Cameras today are as easy to use as pencils. Everyone is a photographer and can afford the devices and tools...
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The Arts Company introduces a two-month celebration of photography with the eight South Light photographers featured in the exhibition, The South Through Eight Lenses & A Code. Accompanying the exhibition is a Salon Saturday Festival, featuring: special photography events; expert panel discussions; master class presentations, including a street photography excursion...
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Ever seen Nashville through the eyes of those considered to be “disposable” members of our community? Soon, you will have the chance to do just that while enjoying good food, music and the company of others who want to give back. The DISPOSABLES is a benefit for The Contributor, a street newspaper produced and sold by homeless and formerly homeless Nashvillians....
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The Daily Beast’s Alice Cavanaugh speaks with famed Memphis photographer William Eggleston on the latest book of his photographs, Chromes, which showcases 364 images selected from a catalogue of thousands of transparencies housed in the Eggleston Artistic Trust in Memphis. Most of these images have never been seen before. Chromes, says Cavanaugh, documents a very...
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Nashville’s creative economy now ranks fourth nationally, a new report says, trailing only Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles. The “Creative Vitality Index” is produced by the Western States Arts Foundation. The Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission has the details. The CVI is a statistical tool to benchmark a state or city’s creative...
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Life Magazine has released breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offering a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter. They show soldiers on both sides battling the frigid weather as they fought each...
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Yahoo’s latest installment of its wonderful “Snapshots of the Week” features a white rainbow, purple hearts and lovable penguins, plus other amazing shots from around the...
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Studio East Nashville, ending its four-year run, presents a photography exhibition for two days only, this weekend. The ƒ-Stops Here is a juried exhibition of recent work by six Nashville photographers. All six participants are members of an underground group of female photographers located in Nashville and throughout the mid-South. Click the thumbnail for...
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PhotoWhoa is a new group-buying portal that is kind of like Groupon for photographers. Like Groupon and other sites which offer items at discount prices, PhotoWhoa requires a large number of buyers to purchase the same item in order to trigger the “deal” and make the product or service available at the low price. Sign up at PhotoWhoa.com to get deal...
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The current edition of Nashville Arts Magazine features the photos of Alan Messer, considered one of the world’s top music photographers. The online and print edition feature some amazing photos of Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lennon, Keith Richards, Bill Haley, Sammie Davis Jr., and dancer Rudolph Nuryev. During the 1980s, Messer was one of Music...
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The new December 2011 edition of Nashville Arts Magazine includes a feature on local painter and photographer Anne Goetze and her new photographic collection entitled “Clothesline,” a new series of photographs snapped in rural locales The images are on display through December 23 at The Arts Company, 215 5th Avenue North in downtown...
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The Nashville Scene’s annual photography issue is out, featuring the winners of a photo contest involving photos submitted by readers and judged by both a panel of judges and by readers. Some of the images are quite good. Others make me wish I’d submitted a few of my own. I do very much like the photo submitted by Chris Wage – his is the thumbnail...
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I made my first attempt at time-lapse photographer over the Thanksgiving holiday. It is a time-lapse view of the drive from Franklin, Tennessee (south of Nashville) to Knoxville. The trip, approximately 180 miles, took 2 hours and 23 minutes by car. This video, comprised of 1,710 images shot via time-lapse photography every 5 seconds during the trip (using a Canon T2i...
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Nashville International Airport is currently hosting (through July 15, 2012), an exhibition of the fabulous photographs of John Guider, a Nashville commercial photographer whose book, The River Inside, features photographs taken along a 2,000-mile canoe trip that took Guider from a small creek behind his Nashville-area home to the Gulf of...
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Did you know that the Nashville Zoo offers animal photography classes – for adults and for kids? Well, you know now. The classes are taught by wildlife photographer Christian Sperka, and involve both classroom instruction and zoo trail experience. The photo of the mandarin duck over there on the right? I took it in 2007 at the Nashville...
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I admit it. I am a recovering addict. Digital photography saved me. Read my story...
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Nashville Arts Magazine’s November issue profiles photographer Jerry Atnip, whose latest book of photography is entitled Gone South: A Collection of Images from the American South. The book is not currently available on Amazon but is available via his...
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Nashville Business Journal has been focusing its photographer’s lens on the “Occupy Nashville” protest happening just a few blocks away from the weekly business newspaper’s offices. Here are links to two NBJ photo galleries: Occupy Nashville protest – October 6, 2011. Who are the Occupy Nashville protesters? – Oct. 20, 2011. (My own...
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My friend Blake Wylie has been doing some amazing photography using a 160-year-old process called “ambrotype.”An ambrotype is a photograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process. That’s Blake in an ambrotype self-portrait made by photographing himself in a mirror, with a 12-second exposure. Check out...
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The Ashland City Times profiles award-winning photographer Mike Rutherford. “His work reflects a detailed mosaic of human expression, which includes aging faces of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, suburban adolescents celebrating their uniqueness, as well as portraits of musical icons such as Dolly Parton, George Strait, Ray Charles and Conway Twitty,” says the...
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Clarksville’s Customs House Museum is currently hosting Sacred Access, an exhibit of photographs by Anthony Scarlati, a fine art portrait photographer and photojournalist known for his soulful and thought-provoking images. A native of Chicago, Scarlati has spent more than twenty years working in the entertainment, sports and equine industries. His published photo...
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The Trahern Gallery at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, hosts a new photography exhibit, “The Urban Landscape: In and Out of the Margins,” featuring images of decaying urban landscapes. The images – crumbling brick walls, rusty chain link fences, broken vending machines – “depict an urban landscape weathered by the repetition of life. The...
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A 12-year-old boy from England has become the youngest member of the prestigious Royal Photographic Society. Here’s the story from the Daily Mail, which reports that Sam Kaye’s entries were judged the best among photos submitted by “hundreds” of photographers, and “fellows of the world’s oldest photographic society were shocked to...
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Salt & Truth is the fourth book from American photographer Shelby Lee Adams. This collection of 80 new photographs, taken over the past eight years, continues a project the artist has been working on now for over 30 years. Together these powerful images of the hollow dwellers of eastern Kentucky, represent a singular access to a world that is historically not very...
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One of the first cameras I ever used was a Voightländer Perkeo II, a smallish folding camera that used 120 film in the 6×6 format. The camera was made in the early 1950s, before I was born. I had to carry a separate Vivitar light meter that was about the size of a roll of 35mm film. Once, around the age of 15, on a family vacation out west, I accidentally dropped...
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I’m looking forward to the release at the end of this month of North South East West, a hardcover collection of photographs by Richard Benson, former dean of the Yale Art School, published by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Pre-order at Amazon for...
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