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The Perceptive Photographer — 610 episodes · page 2 of 7
Exploring the Visual Language of Photographs
How we think about removing distractions can impact our images
Adapting Your Photography: Turning Personal Challenges into Creative Opportunities
Great photography exercises for the holiday season
How Can Finding Balance Transform Your Photography?
Finding Peace in the Frame: How Photography Helps Us Cope with Life’s Challenges
The importance of simplifying when facing complexity
The importance of simplifying when facing complexity
How Can We Embrace Mistakes as Happy Accidents in Our Creative Journey
Thinking about the Connection Between Perception and Photography
Are You “Mailing It In” with Your Photography?
Reflecting on 500 Episodes: The Importance of Patience and Discovery in Photography
Enhancing Your Photography Through Critique and Visualization
How do we draw the boundaries in processing our images
Do you already know the answer?
Theater, sitcom storylines and your photography
Realizing what we thought we knew we didn’t know in our work
Impacts of tension on our photography
Can Originality Be Taught? Exploring Innate Talent vs. Learned Skills
How we think about photographs
Forks in the road of the creative process
Embracing Fragmentation in Photography
Discussing the Role of Chance in Photography
Simple Language Shapes How We View our Photographs
The importace of learning in making meaningful images
The Role of Self-Acceptance in Your Creative Journey
Ideas on Time and Presence in Your Photographic Process
Musings on simplicity and complexity in photographs
Revealing Your Photography Personality through F-Stops
Understanding Photographs Through Repeated Engagement
A tale of distractions
Importance of good customer service
What would your camera club be?
Evolution, revolution and rants
Five ways resistance can impact your photographic process
Interview with Dave Cross
Defining your best work
Five Photography Challenges to Connect to Your Work
Defining value in the image: snapshots to fine-art
Diving deeper into photo inspiration and influences
Symbolic meaning and thinking in photography
The reason does matter
When it is practice and when is it insanity?
Discussing the concept of presets both in software and as a mindset for photographers
Imitate, Influence, Inspire: Lessons from ‘Art and Fear’
Key elements to thinking about your work as projects instead of images
Keeping perspective before and after the click
What can happen if you don’t revisit your work
Seeing the shots with community
Five bad habits to drop like a hot potato
Questions of quality: The viewing of a great Photo
Sights and Insights: Starting 2024 with a Photographic Mindset
Finding inspiration in quotes on photography and connecting
Embrace Failure: A Key to Success
Listener Question Week
Unlocking conversations about your work with 11 easy questions
Work is never linear
Hitting the bullseye in goal setting for your photography
The shape of influences
The difference between knowledge and wisdom in photography
Are you in it for the long haul?
Why sitting with uneasy feelings can help you better edit your photographs.
10 questions to being a better photographer
It’s not a corporate gig so don’t act like it is
Metaphors and story telling
Like healthy eating, you know what you need to do in your photography
Gear does matter. It affects your work
Celebrating the uniqueness of episode 444
A question of quality
Acts of Kindness
Framing considerations
Keep it simple with one small thing
Got a song stuck in your head? Might be good for your photography
Being bold
Considerations for better compositions
Where’s the fire?
Projects, odd questions and toning black and white images
Chicken and the egg
Working Projects
Simple lessons from my last workshop and an editing effect to keep a close watch on
Five challenges to push your photographic process forward
What to do with all those bad ones?
Generative AI, Diane Arbus and other musings on the creation of images
Details and other small things
Starting from failure
Balancing act in photography
Grief, loss and owning your emotions
Listening to your voice
One piece of advice you would give yourself
The power of multiple meanings in photography
Nature verse nurture?
How do you know you are making progress on making more meaningful work?
Listener Questions
Insights from The Nature of Photographs
Five cliches to help your photography
Simple acts make all the difference
Episode 415 Why do you photograph what you photograph?
Episode 414 Continuing thoughts on AI in photography
The 10% rule in your photography
Ep 412 Who judges who