LaChapelle v. Rihanna

How far does copyright go and when do ideas become protectable expressions?

Anatomy of a freelance assignment

A play-by-play with a few outtakes from a recent assignment for the Wall Street Journal

Free!

Looking at two studies about value and the nature of free.

My life as an undirected graph

A graph of my social media connections.

King Cotton

Photographs from a recent assignment documenting the agricultural side of cotton.

Rules for Herds

Using lessons from cinematography to improve your photography and why the 'rule of thirds' won't ever get you very far.

Planck’s Despair

Computing the chromaticity coordinates of the Planckian Locus and computing color temperature using just a smidgen of calculus.

One light, two ways

Lighting some casual one-light portraits using the Profoto Softlight Reflector (with grid) and the Elinchrom 72" Octobank.

Village Education

Photographing the effects of a new school in the remote Alaskan village of Kongiganak.

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