After much deliberation and several rounds of voting, the members of the Fine Art Photoblog are please to announce the addition of three new photographers to the group.

Mathias Pastwa

With a flair for the industrial and an obvious technical command of the medium, Mathias brings a refined yet gritty edge to the group, with clean compositions and saturation of color giving his work a modern but nonetheless unique style.

View Mathias Pastwa’s Portfolio »

Dawn LeBlanc

A simple balance of light and shadow, coupled with her eye for crisp lines, Dawn brings her observations of smaller worlds into our group, a welcome addition to a circle of predominately outdoor shooters.

View Dawn LeBlanc’s Portfolio »

William Fawcett

Exhibiting both urban and natural landscape panoramas of an epic quality, William has strengthened our existing range of landscape photography. He shows a personal touch to wide format compositions that is all too rare in this medium.

View William Fawcett’s Portfolio »

Thank you once again to everyone who submitted work. The decision process was not easy, 44 submissions were made, the vast majority of which were outstanding. However in the end, we could only pick three.

I’d also like to thank Elizabeth Cecil, a fellow photographer, for helping us with the selection process.

Don’t forget to watch for posts from our newest members on fineartphotoblog.com in the very near future.

San Francisco comrade Jasper Sanidad has launched a new blog along side his photographic website.

For a consistently sideways view of pretty much anything you can think of, or can’t for that matter, have a look at http://www.jaspersanidad.com/blog/.

“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

Self portrait. San Francisco, California. June of 2008.

Elderly woman on Clay Street, Chinatown. San Francisco, California. June of 2008.

Clay Street, Chinatown. San Francisco, California. June of 2008.

I came across this secret on the Post Secret site the other day. I’m not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that a professional photographer doesn’t know what ISO and f-stops are, or the fact that you can actually work as a photographer without this knowledge.

Self portrait. San Francisco, California. May of 2008.

Thanks to Brian Auer for the heads up on this.