Coffee table photography books. New original theater projects. Books for movie projects. Screenplays. Along with my opinionated newspaper column, and ploitical policy, that's what I do.


Journalism


My opinion is my opinion. I may throw in a few facts, and quotations that always reflects the things and thoughts IN THE DAY. Nomatter, journalism seems like history in retrospect, but it remains a daily transcript.

Whatever it was, does not ever mean it will not be that way again. In the day, it was often used information; now we look at 'word.'

Photography Tutorials


It was written

TREE OF LIGHT


Never throw out the poorly printed photographs, for there's always some technique to recover them, and the opportunity to recover that memory would be gone forever.


Finding a significance beyond the subject of what's in the picture makes a metaphor. The skill is to see the picture with a metaphor that would ring true to the most people who might see the picture.

I always thought Edward Weston said it best: "A fine photograph should have a unity and purity from corner to corner and edge to edge, with metaphor."

Then by using light, a great photographer should enrapture and transend space and time with an understanding of personal insight; or not.

Within the rules of space, art using line for attraction, texture for character, and form for exponeration gives some latitude for photography to add perspective as mind bending.

Welcome

This is where to find out about me as a writer. As the Charter President of the Jr. United Nations, and politically active person my writing includes political policy. Understanding civics will advance us all through the mechanics of government. Subscribe to my newsletter on the NEWSLETTER page.

Steve Shapiro

Whenever I meet someone, they ask about what I'm writing; so I see if I can hold their attention while I tell them. At the point when I win or loose them, I have the idea about where I'm going with my story. For in the end, after all we write for an audience. Although, I shall not compromise my passions.

People want advice about their writing. All too few writers and readers deal with content, but rather how they do it, or how they would like to do it.

Today, the first interesting thing about writing seems to have been overlooked by the many who write. The Society of Editors of the English Language have decided to adapt our English language to the Romanic rule for neutral non specific generalization of gender found in third person plural as singular.

The golden rule is good grammar.


Politics and Journalism


Good journalists leave out the answers, write only the factsw. It becomes difficult to stop writing policy, making recommendations, answering questions raised from interviews.

Hard to take, but writing politics has its own solitude.

Wrtiting is all about the paradox. With politics, simplest political paradox: You can see it, but you can't do anything about it.

KEEP IT SIMPLE


In journalism there is a format. Based on Civil War time conflicts between Army Generals and journalists dishing the news.

Get it all out before they cut the telegraph wires.

Now, we get it all out before the sugar rush burns a hole in their heads.

Sound bites.

Selected Works

Screenplay
OPIUM DREAM PROJECT
A two picture project set on location in Paris, France circa 1963.
The Benefit
Action Adventure and Social Intrigue
Journalism meets Political Policy
Carmel Voice LEAD STORY January 2007
Whinning, Winning, Won Iraq
History, Political Policy
"Monterey - Unique Views"
A portion of California History, the history of Monterey, California land policy
BOOK
"Carmel - A Timeless Place"
History, Urban Development, Architecture, and Travel. Mostly a picture book, with a brief history of the urban development of an Artist Community
Photography writing
Photographic techniques
SAMPLES in Photographica World
Political Policy
We Won, You Over
The Paris Peace Accords
Thriller: up for publication
PAWNS
"A story that had to be told, disgusied as fiction." Mrs. Wally Cox, Ben Hecht protogee
Romantic Passion on Young Love, work in progress; novel from screenplay
Yolande et Alvine
"Best writing on retribution." Patricia Tiernan