by Joe Farace | Oct 14, 2026 | All Posts
Wheels Wednesday is on hiatus this week. Instead, World Standards Day is celebrated on October 14 to honor the thousands of experts who create technical agreements that are published as international standards. This date marks when delegates from 25 countries met in...
by Joe Farace | Oct 13, 2026 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured...
by Joe Farace | Oct 12, 2026 | All Posts
I was introduced to the work of Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883) in Ray Harryhausen’s landmark book The Art of Ray Harryhausen. He, in turn. was introduced to Doré by Willis O’Brien who designed the iconic stop-motion sequences for the original (1933) King Kong...
by Joe Farace | Oct 11, 2026 | All Posts
My Sunday Series on Available Light Portraiture continues today a theme I started last week about mixing available light with electronic flash from a speedlight. The featured portrait is of Krystyne, who I photographed at a group model shoot in Arizona. Today’s...
by Joe Farace | Oct 10, 2026 | All Posts
This morning Barry Staver and I will be attending the Colorado Pen Show. If you are interested in fountain pens and plan on being here, please stop us and say Hi! Today’s Post by Joe Farace Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away....
by Joe Farace | Oct 9, 2026 | All Posts
Today’s Post by Joe Farace “The earth laughs in flowers.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m a little bit late: September was Self-Improvement Month. Whether we realize it or not, we all learn something new every day. This is something I’m conscious of and...
