Add teaching to your travel check list: You’ve been planning for months. You’ve read the guide books and set your itinerary. Your bags are packed. You fall asleep each night dreaming of taking pictures of romantic street scenes: [ Italian Window with Flowers – Florence Italy – © Melinda Eliza Sabo] Passport – check! Extra […]
Planning a Trip
Exercise #2 – Texture, Music, Memory, & Photography
I’m thrilled at the response to my new series on the Foundations of Art! My favorite quote from the first lesson on texture was from a musician friend who said: “I’m all about texture, even (especially) in music.” This feedback was humbling because (and I really hate to admit this) I hadn’t considered music. It […]
Tips for Art Lovers: Photographing In Situ Art
[Jean Miro’s “Chicago” – Chicago, Illinois – November 2011] In situ art is a work of art made specifically for a particular site – think of Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or I.M. Pei’s pyramid at the Louvre museum. Artists creating in situ art consciously consider the location to create art […]