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For many photographers it’s really the shadows that make or break a photograph but sometimes the results may be a bit more shadowy than we might prefer.

National Day Calendar and Volkswagen of America began a collaboration to establish International Volkswagen Bus Day to be celebrated each year on June 2.

Last weekend, I wrote a post entitled “I Wanted To Write A Post About Wedding Photography…” where I talked about how my accountant suggested that I shoot weddings because, “people pay crazy money for wedding photography.”

You may notice that I almost always provide exposure data for the photographs that are featured in my posts. My reasons for doing so are more complex and perhaps a bit twisted but here goes…

I used to have a theme called #thursdaythoughts but like a lot of my other themes such as #tuesdayvibes—I may have them backwards—I recently made some changes because sticking to a rigid format proved to be too challenging for the kind of photography I want to do.

While I ponder the existential nature of my friend Mr Weston’s quote, I think about what Oscar Wilde had to say on this subject—”Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” and how Richard Avedon said, “My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.”