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Learning How to Find Photography Inspiration Close to Home

Going out with your camera on a regular basis is an important part of expanding your personal growth, creativity, and mental health. During this worldwide pandemic, it means exploring the world close to home.

Different Approaches to Seeing the Grand Landscape

The development of personal vision in photography often gets mired in thoughts of what to avoid, the suppression of familiar ideas, and the desire to do something different.

Six Years of Daily Self Portraits… With the Lens Cap On

Here's a photo project so profound that it might make you weep (you might also cry for other reasons). Artist Will Vincent has a project titled "Two Thousand, One Hundred and Ninety One." His artist statement is a single sentence: "Every day for six years I took a photo of myself with the lense cap on."