The Perceptive Photographer

Much of photography is about telling a story in our images. If we start telling a story before we know what we want to say, we might make uninteresting work. However, by listening to others tell stories and the stories we tell, we might be able to better apply the storytelling skills to our work.

Having a plan and idea of what matters, awareness behind the camera, and organizing around multiple concepts can all lead to better success in our images. In this week's podcast, we dive into some ideas around how to increase the success rate behind the camera so that you have more images to work with on your various projects

have heard, more times than I can count, that inspiration is a magic gift from the beyond that moves and shakes up to create amazing things. I am on the other end of the spectrum where I think inspiration comes from the work. What we might think of as a eureka idea actually has been there all along we just haven't been listening closely enough.

In this week's podcast, I talk about how the things we create and are inspired to create are often a result of the process we follow both behind the camera and in the editing.

In this week's podcast, I take a leap off the high bar and discuss the impacts of how our language of correct or incorrect can have on our seeing, photographing and sharing of photographs. By the end of the podcast, I hope that you will give some thought to how a small change in what you say might really impact your work.

There was a game we used to play back in at a company I worked at. Several of us worked in a common open area. Work was slow at times, so we would have entire conversations that had to be movie quotes. The only rules were had to be a quote and someone had to guess the quote. Now, I didn't say it was a good game, but it passed the time.

In this week's podcast, we take a look at the idea that some of our photographs might just be quotable.

In this week's podcast, we take a look at the notion of the metaphor to understand our work and find more meaning in the images we create, share and see from others.

is week's podcast, I talk about how asking questions to questions, not in an arrogant annoying sort of way can help move the conversation in a more interesting direction and help everyone have a better conversation about their photography and the work of others.

are trying out a new segment for the podcast called footnotes and endnotes. This segment is a collection of small random thoughts I have in my notebooks and conversations that rather than stretch into a longer podcast where I might get a little redundant I rapidly cover each topic in a few minutes.

In this week's podcast, we take a look at the ideas around success and how doing nothing might make you the most successful photographer you can be.

I have heard over the past several weeks other photographers talking about other people's photographs. What caught my ear was how critical these photographers were of people's subject selection, the commonness of the subject, or general bashing of the image as been there done that. This week's podcast takes a hard look at what that conversion is about and how we can find a better way to talk about photographs.