“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs”*…
Berlin-based Erik Johansson doesn’t so much “take” photographs; he “makes” them…
See more of his wonderful work here.
* Ansel Adams
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As we recommit to learning Photoshop, we might send delightfully-drawn birthday greetings to Paul Gustave Doré; he was born on this date in 1832. An engraver, illustrator, and sculptor, Dore is probably best-remembered as the man who showed us Heaven and Hell: the canonical illustrator of works by Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, Cervantes, and Dante.

Don Quixote, his horse Rocinante, and his squire Sancho Panza after an unsuccessful attack on a windmill.

The Tempest of Hell in THE DIVINE COMEDY