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Monday, September 27, 2010

Patterns of Behavior

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I avoid using the word capture with regard to photographing. That's a term that has become so overused with the rise of digital imaging....
Sunday, September 12, 2010

I Know, I'm Beating a Dead Horse, But...

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I continue to encounter very young people who are discovering photography as they buy their first DSLR. This is a continuation of same type ...
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Finding a New Pictorialism

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I suppose I've always been attracted to the impressionistic qualities of Pictorialist photography. Although Pictorialism as a photograph...
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Monday, July 5, 2010

A Most Accurate Abstraction

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I spent most of today hanging out and talking with my good friend, photographer Tony Remington. Tony and I talked a lot about the fundamenta...
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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Color as Color

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I've been doing some color work lately, still trying to figure out my relationship to color. Focusing on color as subject seems to be wh...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

On the Street and at Risk

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On March 13, 2010 I was on my way home from work, and as I reached the Van Ness/Market Street metro station I heard men screaming. I loo...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

He Does It His Way

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Don Felton with his 30 year old Nikkor 105 mm Non-AI lens mounted on a Canon DSLR. Photo: ©2010 Anna L. Conti Don Felton, owner and primary ...
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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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