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45 contributions to Visual Storytelling Lab
Jan 18 •
Seeing with Intent - Assignment 5 - Image Submissions
Assignment 5 Photo Challenge — The Necessary Image Create one photograph that communicates a single, clear idea or feeling using subtraction as your primary tool. Assignment Prompt: Photograph a subject you might normally shoot wide or inclusively, then deliberately remove anything that does not serve its meaning. Your goal is clarity through restraint. Be sure that your new post is posted to the last comment in this thread. There often is a button that says "Jump to last comment." You don't want your image to appear as a comment under someone else's image.
1 like • 23h
@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Beautiful introduction. Magnificent image. Thanks so much.
0 likes • 6h
@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen What are you using to make such dramatic changes in the image? Do you recompose, yet keep the aesthetic?
4d •
Capturing Images with Planning and Intent
Here is a link to the 2025 PhotoPills image awards. Each of these 36 images came to life because the photographers planned the image and shot with full intent. The 36 Best Photos of 2025
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Jan 7 •
Seeing with Intent - Assignment 4 - Image Submissions
Color, tone & mood. Comment on this to post images you have created for the Seeing with Intent Assignment 4: Light as Meaning. Intent: Color becomes expressive, not decorative. It's one more element that helps to tell the story.
1 like • 16d
@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Just remarkable how you intentionally transform the image.
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@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen What a wonderfully artistic series! This is brilliant execution.
Feb 1 •
Month 2 - Prompt 2 - Photopoetry Image Submissions
Comment on this to post images you have created for the Month 2 Photopoetry prompt.
1 like • 13d
@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Just gorgeous.
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@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen The petals look like they are coated with something. What could it be?
Jan 6 •
Seeing with Intent - Assignment 3 - Image Submissions
Light as Meaning. Comment on this to post images you have created for the Seeing with Intent Assignment 3: Light as Meaning. Intent: Move beyond light as a technical tool and treat it as part of the image's narrative.
1 like • 12d
@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen The description of waiting for the sun to be just right is very nice. Practicing patience.
0 likes • 10d
@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Wow. Breathtaking.
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@mike-thompson-1972
Have been doing photography one way or another since the 1960s. Shot SLR & Medium format through late 80s. Nikon D1 in 1991. Everyday camera is Fuji.
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Joined Dec 30, 2025
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Sacramento, CA