The Bear Gallery blog

Just one lens….

Posted on 01/05/2017

A good photograph, for me, is all about ‘the glass’. By this I mean that the lens is crucial to a good photo. An image […]

Composition, Photography

Macro and micro

Posted on 05/04/2017

Micro: looking closely. Sometimes when I am out taking photographs of flowers and plants, I think of Georgia O’Keeffe and her famous close-up paintings of […]

Art in society, Composition, Meaning of art, Photography

Lights and mirrors

Posted on 20/03/2017

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend a weekend day in one of my favourite ways: I went out into the woods in spring with […]

Photography

Photography without a lens

Posted on 12/02/2017

A camera is basically a light-tight box, with one (usually) controlled ‘door’ through which light can enter. The light brings with it the colours of the […]

Alternative photographic techniques, Photography

New art using old techniques

Posted on 10/02/2017

Photography is the art of writing and recording with light. These days, a photograph tends to tell the story of the moment snapped, the people […]

Alternative photographic techniques, Meaning of art, Photography

High-tech tools

Posted on 24/11/2016

I’ve recently had the pleasure of opening my one-woman photography exhibition (‘Vielfalt im Augenblick’, or, ‘Diversity at a glance’). The last three or four weeks […]

Art in society, Meaning of art, Photography

Diversity in the blink of an eye – Artist’s Statement

Posted on 21/11/2016

My one-woman exhibition, ‘Vielfalt im Augenblick’ [Diversity in the blink of an eye], is open from November 2016 through mid-January 2017. [This is the Artist’s […]

Art in society, Meaning of art