Adrian College Photography

05/22/2025

08/11/2024

I saw this photo on facebook and have to post it. This is from the early 90's when I had the honor to teach (photography) with this amazing group of people at Siena Heights College. left to right: Joe Bergman, John Wittersheim, Garin Horner, and Chris Reising. Bottom row: Tom Venner and Fr. David VanHorn. I have so many wonderful memories of that time. And, I learned so much from these artists!

07/08/2024

Thank you to Lenscratch...they interviewed me for their online magazine!

LENSCRATCH is a daily journal that explores contemporary fine art photography and offers opportunities for exposure and community.

08/19/2023

A Major Photography Exhibition at Adrian College!

Immerse yourself in the allure of 1930s New York through Berenice Abbott's lens at the "Becoming Documentary" exhibition in Hickman Gallery. This gallery reception will be complete with a Gallery Talk by exhibition curator Peter Barr, PhD, at 6 pm, accompanied by delightful hors d'oeuvres and refreshments. Friday Aug. 25th, 5:30-7:30!

04/29/2023

An insight into the extent of inflation in the country.

03/26/2023

As artists experiment with this fast-evolving technology, they uncover creative opportunity, absurdity, and bias.

03/11/2023

Researchers are coming to understand that the best performing materials in sustainable energy applications, such as converting sunlight or waste heat to electricity, often use collective fluctuations of clusters of atoms within a much larger structure. This process is often referred to as "dynamic d...

01/07/2023

Catholics made the Protestant-raised Johannes Vermeer see the light. Literally.A new biography of the Dutch golden age artist has uncovered evidence that it was Jesuits who introduced Vermeer to the camera obscura which was to transform his practice and change art history.Although Vermeer, who is ni

12/21/2022

https://mashable.com/review/seckton-childrens-digital-camera

This brightly-colored camera delivers big fun in a tiny package.

04/22/2022

In photography, it is he who is responsible for the majority of mindless photographs. He is the joiner, the imitator, the photographer who plays it safe. Such people have surrendered their individuality in exchange for approval, approval by the system, the organization, public opinion, their fellows at the photo club. They have succumbed to fads and trends, they are
the in-people who belong to a group or school, and they look down on anybody who does not belong.

(Feininger 1974 p. 136)
from The Tao of Photography

04/22/2022

"Constricted by pre-set images, such photographers mechanically attempt to reproduce a rigid, preestablished vision, thereby forestalling the possibility of new discoveries. Their awareness is saturated with expectations which block the possibility of seeing the unexpected."

-The Tao of Photography