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  • Sense of Place

    Blog Author Richard Newman

    What are your photographic meccas? Death Valley Ca., Point Lobos, where Edward Weston isolated and created such stunning beauty, or deep on the plains of Africa where the wildlife abounds?

  • Interview with Christopher James

    Blog Author Richard Newman

    A recent interview with photographer and educator Christopher James who recently juried the TPS Alternative Processes and Integrated Media competition.

  • Shopping and Dreaming…..tis the season

    Blog Author Richard Newman

    This time of year it’s almost impossible to not think about shopping. Let’s take a look at shopping in the photo world: where we’ve been and maybe where we’re going.


  • Quotable

    Blog Author Richard Newman

    Quotes are part of our everyday life, whether they’re from the Bible, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Theodore or Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein or Yogi Berra. We tend to fall back on them for inspiration, to help explain what matters most in our lives or get us through difficult or challenging times. Do you have some favorite quotes that you pull out of your hat or put on your refrigerator door or above your desk?

  • "Pictures, Fragile"

    Blog Author Richard Newman

    At first I went to the typical places: Death Valley, Joshua Tree and Kelso. The landscape was great and inspiring, but the pictures I was making were traditional landscapes: they were pretty, had emotion and perfect printing. I loved them, but knew deep down inside that there was something better for me down the road. So, down the road I went.

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