As a nice follow-up to last week’s article about black & white photography, we share with you the work of Daniel Horacio Agostini. This week’s inspirational photo, “La Piedra Tallada #6″, inspires both our photographic mind, and our desire to travel. To learn more about this exotic photograph, read on.

DANGER! Sue Thompson, a perennial at the Shutter Photo @ Flickr Group, has a new camera. And it hasn’t hurt her at all. We once again spotlight one of her macro photographs for this week’s inspiration. We also learn an important lesson about how equipment affects our work.

Though my own attempt at a Photo 365 Project has failed, I still follow all of the daily photo blogs that have sprung up.  None has given me more joy and inspiration than David Clark’s.  My own struggle with a daily photo project was that I was not satisfied with each and every one of [...]

Photography is the art of light.  Without light, photography has no medium, and we cannot create our art.  Light is beautiful in its own right.  It creates such interesting textures, patterns and colors.  It has a depth and quality that renders  potential subjects in so many different ways.  As photographers, it’s important that we take [...]

I have often preached that self portraits are a great way to experiment and learn.  So when I see a great self portrait, like Brian Day’s self portrait, Boomtown, I feel the need to share.  Brian has been featured here on Shutter Photo once before in our spotlight of his photo, Awakenings. If you compare [...]

For this week’s inspiration, I let each of our readers the opportunity to crawl inside my mind and find out samples of what inspires me and the fundamental philosophies that serve as a basis for what I consider inspiration.

When one thinks of silhouette photos, sunsets and summer days and beaches come to mind.  Cold climates, snow covered escalators and tunnels are not at the forefront of our minds.  It may, however, have been be at the forefront of Emily Ferry’s mind when she created this beautiful photograph, Dupont North Metro Escalator.  I have [...]

David Clark has been lingering around the SP@Flickr Group almost since its inception.  You may even remember him from our review of his photo, Summer Chair. David’s gallery is a testament to the reach of his talents and skills – explorations in nature, landscape photography and close-up photography.  But of all his works, perhaps the [...]

When is a subject both transparent and right before your eyes at the same time? When is unorthodox lighting incredibly appealing? Read on to see why Kika Clore-Gronenborn’s photo, “Sepia”, breaks all the rules but remains inspirational.

I was out experimenting with my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens. Shot at 1/50 with an aperture of f/18 at 50mm focal length. Continue reading to see the full-sized image.

The Kimmel Center on the Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia.  Home to the Philadelphia Orchestra and the hub of life performances in the city.

This is the Manoa School in Havertown, PA.  There is no corner stone – likely it was covered by one of its additions.  But I estimate the school was built somewhere around 1927.  Unfortunately, the school is soon to be knocked down.  It has been vacant now for almost a year and a new school [...]

It’s been a while since I posted current photos of the kids.  So I figured it would be a great opportunity to post some of my latest portraits.
Alert – Natalie is now about 8 months old.  She’s alert, loves to look around and just be aware of everything around her.  She especially loves it when [...]

I snapped this shot while sitting at a traffic signal.  This sign was hung on a fence at an industrial park.  I can only assume one of the workers at this facility hung the sign out of frustration and protest due to the current state of the economy.  But to me, this is just an [...]