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Sunday, July 6, 2008

An Artful Act

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Yesterday's entry was inspired by a passage from Issa's book, Oraga Haru : "Without lifting the foot, he arrives. Without movi...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

A Thoughtful Act

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Art and thought, there is nothing more. All art is the expression of thought. Thought inspires and motivates one. Thought sustains one. With...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

My 2 Cents on Fill Flash

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I’ve always tried to avoid using flash, but often I wish I had just a little boost to diminish shadows. I usually use reflectors, but that m...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

I Have A Dream

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I have a dream... This is what it would take to get me into digital photography: An FM2 body with an FX sensor. Same center-weighted meter, ...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

What, are you nuts!

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So the other evening my sister calls me. Susan lives in Bellevue, Washington. “I need your opinion,” she says. “The guy down the street is...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Introducing The Where We Live Project

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A while back I initiated a project taking a close look at the neighborhoods in which we live. I invited photographers to submit black and wh...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Annie Leibovitz at the Legion of Honor

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Last weekend I went to the Legion of Honor to see the exhibition of Annie Leiboveitz's work. The show was organized by the Brooklyn Muse...
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David W. Sumner
In 1988 David moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to begin his career in photography, taking a job as a photo researcher at Mountain Light Photography. Since then, in addition to freelancing, he has worked as a studio/darkroom assistant, print finisher and in the late 1990s was Picture Editor at StageImage. For the past several years he has focused on personal projects documenting the social context of the urban environment. He lives in Reno, Nevada with his wife, the painter, Anna Conti.
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