Celebrating Culture Day Japan Today

Celebrating Culture Day Japan Today

Today’s Post by Joe Farace When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan. —Tadao Ando...
Shooting Glamour Using Available Light

Shooting Glamour Using Available Light

After a rambunctious post about outdoor portraits last Sunday, that theme remains on hiatus—unless you want me to change that—as I consider keeping this day’s theme as Available Light Portraiture, which is what today’s post is about featuring one of my favorite...
Joe’s Book Club: Chapter 80, It’s a Mystery to Me

Joe’s Book Club: Chapter 80, It’s a Mystery to Me

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” —William Feather Some book publishers send me a press release for new books along with access to a digital version of parts of it and want me to write a...
Remembering the First Photograph I Made

Remembering the First Photograph I Made

Today’s Post by Joe Farace Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. —Abraham Lincoln When I was eight years old, my parents gave me my first camera. It was a...
Studio Portraits with Paul C. Buff

Studio Portraits with Paul C. Buff

Today on this Blog it’s #anythingcanhappenday. Lately I’ve increased the number of portrait-related posts and based on the increased number of page views, people seem to enjoy them. Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Well, the very first fuzztone that I ever...