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What's In YOUR View Finder?

In 1989, I was given my first film camera, a Minolta 370. I didn’t use it much that first year. Partly because I was still in graduate school and it took a great deal of my time, but also because the friend who had given me the camera kept saying something to me that I did not understand, “FILL THE FRAME.” No matter what photos I took, really snap shots back then, he would always say, “You didn’t fill the...

Posted by Joanna Biondolillo - June, 2010.
 

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Bluebonnet Heaven

Living in the south means that spring comes early. It is one of the many things I have always enjoyed. While the snow is blowing and the winter winds continue to howl in the north, the early spring flowers begin to bloom and the grass takes on an early spring green.

Normally, I am all but glued to the southeast during late March and early April as I a wait a few days of glory when the azaleas bloom. But...

Posted by Joanna Biondolillo - May, 2010.
 

Popular Photography Joins Ranks to Damage Photo Industry

This past month Popular Photography magazine joined the ranks of those determined to destroy the true art of photography by holding a “photography” contest and then declaring those who created computer generated images as the winners.

Let’s clarify. In order to have a legitimate photography contest, entries must be photographs. A photograph is a picture of a subject, captured when using a camera. A camera is a device used to commit some subject matter to negative film, reversal film, a...

Posted by Joanna Biondolillo - March, 2010.
 

Kodak Stupidity Is Never Ending

It is no secret that I am a long time admirer of George Eastman. His meager beginnings in Western New York were no indication of the vast empire he would build. Eastman Kodak once led the world in bringing photography to the masses. Eastman was an inventor, philanthropist, a visionary. But his company has been destroyed by a history of sustained arrogance by senior management including, but not limited to, its CEO’s, a complete lack of regard for Eastman and...

Posted by Joanna Biondolillo - March, 2010.
 

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