There are 7.2 billion people in the world, and 7 billion cell phone accounts. Cellphones now reach over 96% of the people, and over half of them are in the Asia-Pacific region. The penetration is 90% in developing countries. 40% of the world’s population is on the internet. Every day over a billion photographs are uploaded to […]

A couple of days ago, I was in a face-off with the postmaster in my community. I was in the post office, taking shots that appealed to me. He stepped in front of the camera, and told me I could not photograph there. Thing ended amicably, and I continued shooting, but that did inspire this […]

Screenwriter and author Christina Hamlett interviewed me recently, asking basic questions about the world of photography. It’s here: Tracy Valleau Fine Art Photography

(This talk was delivered a few times to fellow photographers, in late 2013. It proposes a definition for  “fine art photography” based on that which “the fine arts” as a group, have in common, and thus distinguishes between “fine art” and “high-concept art.”)   A Talk: “On Photography and Fine Art.”© 2013 Tracy Valleau Hello […]

95% of the time someone complains about their prints being too dark, it’s a simple solution: their monitor is too bright. That’s old news. Here, on the other hand, is something you might not have discovered before: I had my prints suddenly go too dark just last week, and found an unexpected solution. History: I’ve […]

Here is the bottom line: your photographic prints ARE going to change over time. Period. You may be able to put that off for maybe 1000 years, provided you are so famous that you can get together with Corbis and Bill Gates, and get them stored in sub-zero temperatures underground in the Corbis photo vault […]

  When the Muse is on vacation, and my work fails to meet my own expectations, or at least my hopes, the nice thing about photography is that one can set the shooting aside, and practice the printing, or read and ponder, or study the work of others. In some ways, more than the other […]

Ramblings about photography as art- Art itself is about frozen time. The amount of time varies, but is frozen to some greater or lesser extent. A book always reads the same; a movie always plays the same; a concerto always uses the same notes; a sculpture is locked in form. Yet each new reading, each […]

People ask me all the time, “Say, Tracy… What is the secret to making great photos?”   Well, I cannot speak for other photographers, since each of us has a different technique, but here’s mine:  

People ask me all the time, “Say, Tracy… What is the secret to making great photos?”   Well, I cannot speak for other photographers, since each of us has a different technique, but here’s mine: