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Flying High For The New Year; Come Fly With Me
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Joe Farace • Jan 01, 2011 • 0 comments

“You just say the words and we’ll beat the birds down to Acapulco Bay…”—Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen

One suggestion that I often make to workshop attendees is that they can always improve the impact of their photographs by simply changing their point of view. When space and conditions permit, I suggest using a ladder because it gives you the ability to...
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Four Dynamic Wedding Photographers: Image Galleries And Styles To Admire
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Joe Farace • May 07, 2012 • Published: Mar 01, 2012 • 6 comments
Maybe it was the 17th Earl of Oxford (www.shakespeare-oxford.com) who really wrote the above line but it’s a nice thought nevertheless. The quote’s actual authorship was the concept proposed in the film Anonymous as well. (Look for a review of the film on my movie blog www.ihatepopcorn.com.) What’s for sure is that the creative endeavors of the four wedding photographers featured this month display work that transcends the genre, producing images of beauty, sensitivity, and love. And isn’t that what weddings are all about?
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Happy Homepages For The Holidays
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Joe Farace • Dec 01, 2003 • 0 comments

"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere..."--John Muir

This month's department is organized a little differently. There are big presents in the...
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Happy New Year; A New Year, A New Website
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Joe Farace • Jan 01, 2009 • 0 comments

“An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.”—Bill Vaughan

Why not make your 2009 New Year’s resolution a commitment to create a new website or update that old one you made when Coolidge was president? Oh, there are lots of ways to produce a new site. You can always hire a designer, if you can find one that will do...
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Holiday Greetings From Daisy Hill: This Year, Santa’s Sack Holds Websites And Blogs
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Joe Farace • Feb 03, 2012 • Published: Dec 01, 2011 • 2 comments
I want to extend holiday greetings to Shutterbug readers during this special time of the year. While the sites and blog presented this month do not have an overall theme—holiday or otherwise—they represent the work of talented photographers who are using the Internet to communicate and display their work. These sites come to me in many ways: sometimes a site is recommended by a reader, other times by the photographer themselves, but most times through research. This month I’ve expanded my search tools to include photographers who are following me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/joefarace), where every Monday through Friday I pass along tips, tools, and techniques that will hopefully improve your photographs. This is all done in the same spirit of giving that pervades this time of year but is offered by me on Twitter throughout the year.
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In Dreams; Dreams Are Wishes Your Heart Makes
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Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2007 • 0 comments

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.--Okakura Kakuzo

These days my influences are not other still photographers, but movie directors, especially Asian filmmakers who, unbridled by Hollywood's fiscal realties, feel free to create imagery that defies reality. Akira Kurosawa's 1990 film Dreams (a.k.a. Yume) is a collection of...
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Is The Medium The Message; Make A Splash With Your Homepage
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Joe Farace • Apr 01, 2004 • 0 comments

For The Love Of It
When I first visited Stanley Chan's website (www.stanc.net) I smiled and so will you. The true definition of "amateur" is one who does something for the love of...
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Is Your Website Rated X–And You Don’t Know It? Look Up Your Rating And Prepare To Take Action
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Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2005 • 0 comments

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it."--Justice Potter Stewart

When the company my wife works for got new computers, I decided to see how my website (

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It Takes More Than Optics; It Takes Vision
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Joe Farace • Aug 01, 2007 • 0 comments

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.--Kahlil Gibran

The Candid Frame (http://thecandidframe.blogspot.com/index.html) is an online podcast where you can meet image-makers from the world of photojournalism, fashion, landscape, documentary, sports, wildlife, travel, and commercial...
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It’s A Dog’s Life; Happiness Is A Warm Puppy
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Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2006 • 0 comments

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."--Snoopy (Charles M. Schulz)

On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip appeared and introduced the world to "Good Ole Charlie Brown." Snoopy didn't appear until a few days later on October...
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It’s A New Year; New Lives; Children Of The World
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Joe Farace • Jan 01, 2007 • 0 comments

"My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one."--Groucho Marx

As hard as it may be for some of the young people in my neighborhood to believe, I was once a child myself. I have three grandchildren and a daughter and once upon a time wrote a story about her for ComputerUSER magazine. The story was optioned by an independent...
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Keep Your Head In The Clouds... With Your Camera Pointed All Around
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Joe Farace • Mar 01, 2005 • 0 comments

"A dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds."--J.K. Rowling

This month's department helps you soar with the eagles, land with the owls, and introduces you to some down-to-earth photographers who look at the world in completely new ways. In accomplishing these goals, this month's photographers will...
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Kissing Frogs; Looking For Mr. Goodsite
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Joe Farace • Sep 01, 2009 • 0 comments

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”—Emad Hasan

When this column evolved from its former Website of the Month origins more than 10 years ago into what it is today, it was a simpler time, Internet-wise. Really good photographers’ homepages were few and far between, but now the web explodes with sites, some produced via the templates and...
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Monochrome…Never Out Of Style; Black & White And Read All Over
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Joe Farace • Feb 01, 2011 • 2 comments

“The ink is black… The world is black, the world is white…”—David Arkin for Three Dog Night

Because it pays homage to a long tradition in photography, this black-and-white-themed issue has always been one of my favorites. That’s why I decided to devote this month’s column to photographers who capture monochrome images and, like photography...
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Music To My Eyes; Sites Full Of Soul
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Joe Farace • Oct 01, 2004 • 0 comments

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here."--J.K. Rowling

Like many photographers, some of the artists featured this month have a musical background. Many people forget that Ansel Adams was a pianist; maybe the black and white keys on the piano were the...
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