Seeing Things

  It has become more and more common in the current digital era to look at things in color, which means that we often forget about how impor...

VEILED WOMAN This portrait was made using natural light coming in through the window to camera right. Prior to the shoot we talked for ...

 

Lattice At Night ©Michael G. O'Brien  The way I see it the photographer's 'outer' toolbox consists of equipment and techniqu...

    From the CLOUD series     Michael O'Brien There are many reasons to photograph what you love. It's natural, it's fun and it...

 

RIPPLES - LIGHT AND WATER ©Michael G. O'Brien In my view, there's a difference between 'looking' at photographs and 'see...

In 2001 this is how the Pelourinho - a famous neighborhood in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil - looked. In a counter-intuitive move,  I decided t...

"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter" - Alfred Eisenstaedt Student Rally on the occasion of ...

                                          From the 'TIME' series by Yoshihiko Ito I see Japanese photographer YOSHIHIKO ITO is a ma...

Check out this really important (and very funny) talk by Ken Robinson. It's about how education systems around the world squeeze the lif...

Triptych from the Horizon series  ©Michael O'Brien What Is A Series Of Photos And Why Should We Start One? The 'golden thread' ...

Staircase inside The Museum of the American Indian, Manhattan, New York City ©Michael G.O'Brien How do we start the journaling pro...

GREEN MEDICINE The Healing Forests Of The Pacific Northwest  We have a long and deep relationship with trees. Humanity has historica...

Jeff Thomas is a 2019 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Pixie Cram. Co-production o...

“Michael O’Brien’s “The Power of Light” course gave me a deep appreciation how important the elements of light and exposure are t...

High Park - Spring, Toronto ©Michael O'Brien Four ways to find good ideas Good photographs are usually based on good ideas...