by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #33 – Meloney GoodmanI think what makes this so charming is that they are both so comfortable with each other. Hollywood would have to reach far and wide to come up with a more photographically cooperative amphibian. The picture is...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #34 – Kristina Marks ThompsonPhotographs that look like this are, for me, photo-journalism at its best. They are sweet and delicate and thoughtful and almost always in black-and-white. They tell a simple story with the tilt of the...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #35 – Jill OrmeI realize I’ve gone on and on over the years repeating myself about birds as photo subjects. Honestly, there’s something mystical and divine going on here that I’m really inadequate to describe. It’s no accident...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #36 – Tammy ThomasTammy’s neighbor told her where they would be and there they were – with their backlit ears up and all of it in front of a simple background. Coming up with something better than “wow “is...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #37 – Rochelle HepworthRochelle shoots photographs that look and feel real, simply because they are. Real is very difficult to argue with. Photography is a medium, better than any other, that celebrates reality.She writes, too:“In...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #38 – Jannie Van Der Haar First of all, I would like to know how Jannie rigged up the camera on the dashboard of the old Cadillac. (I ruled out the possibility that she’s actually riding on the hood of the car. I don’t...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #39 – Laura Hoelscher 45° in Minnesota is as good a reason as any to fly. (Maybe even reason to take off the long underwear for a day! In the interest of full disclosure, I’m wearing mine right now and I live in Philadelphia. Perhaps...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#40 – Jessica MacKeen You almost always have to forgive a cluttered background and some harsh mid-day sun at a little league baseball game—it just sort of goes with the territory. But that should not stop you from getting some really sweet action shots. This is...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#41 – Sara Rebecca Sometimes, I’ve found, that amateur photographers are too quick to declare that their photographs have “technical problems”. Sometimes out of focus mush can turn things into a gauzy, hazy memory dream. Maybe there were some raindrops on the...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#42 – Crystal Boates-FreemanIt’s Crystal’s great-grandmother’s house. She happened to join a camera club trip on a dark and cold outing and later found out that she had a personal connection to this piece of architecture. The exposure was long. How long?...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#43 – Robert RearOur dear friend Louise Bradt has taken Robert under her wing and is sharing her vast photographic experience and knowledge with him. But this picture makes it pretty clear that Robert is bringing a lot to the party, too. First of all the...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#44 – Sam Maloney Sam has wisely used the long telephoto lens he loves to put that background out of focus. In other words, he stood back from the action but he didn’t have to. It was a creative decision. But the really neat thing that he did was to...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
← previous next → #45 -Tammy ThomasLucky is the photographer that gets herself into this situation. A bunch of factors have to align—temperature, humidity, dew point, pressure, wind or lack of it. I spent my entire childhood on the frozen tundra and I’ve...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#46 – Liz Sharp Griffin I remember driving from Fargo, North Dakota to Columbia, Missouri all by myself one year heading off to college. I had tears running down my face as I saw just how beautiful— for the first time, really— the flat, desolate prairie was. It...
by NIck Kelsh | Jan 8, 2019 | A Top 50 Fan Photo Post, Uncategorized
#51 – Teddy Kelsh This is not a typo. Photograph #51 of the Top 50 list was taken by my son, Teddy Kelsh. I really like the photograph and wanted to give him a pat on the back, but I also didn’t want to use up a valuable spot in the list that I could give...
by NIck Kelsh | Jul 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Imagine joining me in an unforgettable photography workshop... in a place with the most spectacular backdrop seeing nature's beauty through your lens making lifelong friends with your camera... Becoming the photographer you want to be Are you ready to re-energize your...
