I had a few days to kill in Baltimore recently, while my wife attended a conference, so I decided to visit some of the city’s fine museums. As luck would have it, The Baltimore Museum of Art, which is adjacent to the beautiful campus of Johns Hopkins University, had an exhibition called “Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900–1960.” My purpose in writing about this exhibition, which ended on June 8, is to begin a discussion — which I hope you will join — about visual literacy and the importance of visual images in today’s world. “Looking Through the Lens” contained...


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The journey from a amateur to the master of photography. The learning journey is believable to be explain in a few word. “First you have to learn all the knowledge to capture a good images, after that, you have to forgot all you have learn, and starting to create art from zero”. Visualization is one of the most useful and powerful skills that a creative professional has utilizes to perform their creativity task. It is also one that takes time and practice to master. As Adams himself admitted: In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular … sight and feeling will appear on a print....


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To understand anything in life, we must do our homework and engage the things we feel, think and act upon. Human beings are dependent on our senses for the impressions we hold of the world around us. We rely on sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste for our survival. However, as we develop and refine our craft, there is a tendency to favor one sense over another­. The key to becoming better observers of the world, through words and images, is to work with all our senses to remember the impressions we experience and collect. Seeing vs. Looking At The art of observation begins with...


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