by Ted Amsden | Mar 7, 2016 | BLOG
Ah, the life of the working photographic model in the ’50’s. It was tough. Assignments were always at night or on weekends. You never knew what the job was week to week. Whether it was clothes on or off. There was no union back then. No breaks guaranteed....
by Ted Amsden | Feb 18, 2016 | BLOG
The iPhone. Wonderful instrument. Packs a lot of fun into a small space. A tool I rely on. There is no doubt the phone’s camera is a great tool, too. Beyond its obvious importance in every owner’s memory project- the digital capture of friends, relatives...
by Ted Amsden | Feb 7, 2016 | BLOG
I visited several photographic galleries and displays in London, U.K. last year. Depending on the display I was bored, intrigued, astounded or envious. After three weeks, I came away resolved. To continue to explore photography beyond its traditional uses. I have two...
by Ted Amsden | Dec 31, 2015 | BLOG
They are called snaps, grab shots, captures, images, photographs, pictures and pix. Most of us don’t quibble about the words, we just know we love them. Everybody in the world takes pictures these days. Its a good thing that the chemical processing of film has...
by Ted Amsden | Dec 24, 2015 | BLOG
My father began his tradition of producing a personalized Christmas card for the family in the mid-Forties. A tradition that he continued until the early Seventies. A Doctor of Osteopathy, he was as well an amateur photographer who took his hobby quite seriously. He...
by Ted Amsden | Dec 24, 2015 | BLOG
I am concentrating on presenting my digital work from approximately 2003 to the present. Pre ’03 my work back to the early Nineties is film-based, mostly transparencies and some negatives. The challenge of copying my slide and negative archives to exhibit is...
by Ted Amsden | Dec 18, 2015 | BLOG
In the beginning, Ted Amsden Photography was more wishful thinking than a business. Although raised by a profoundly talented amateur photographer, my father bequeathed only the aesthetics of his photography and the joy of capturing a good image. As a consequence I...
by Ted Amsden | Dec 11, 2015 | BLOG
Most people in Northumberland County, located on the north shore of Lake Ontario, east of Toronto, know me as a photojournalist from the days I worked at the Cobourg Daily Star and the Port Hope Evening Guide — two of the smallest dailies in the free world. And later...
by Ted Amsden | Dec 7, 2015 | BLOG
Kudos to Jay Robinson of MYPROJECTLOLA and Tracy Kerr of The Design Republic who set up this website. When I approached them six months ago about reviving an older site, I had few clear ideas. All I knew was that I had been driving myself nuts wondering how I was...
by Ted Amsden | Dec 5, 2015 | BLOG
It seems appropriate that the first post on this blog accounts for the past and expresses my intention for the future. I ignored a previous incarnation of this website for a number of years as I pursued another muse. After I left the newspaper where I had worked for...
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