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Seeing and letting go 2007-07-12 21:09:50 The August 2007 issue of Lenswork includes the usual insightful commentary by Brooks Jensen in his ‘Editor’s Comments.’ For those of you who do not receive Lenswork, Brooks writes about The Pragmatics of Creativity. I always enjoy these commentaries because they always provoke some self-contemplation on my part. In this essay, [...] Read more:Seeing
Sunny days? No thanks… 2007-07-18 22:15:02 I am sure quite a few photographers can relate to this type of conversation on a bright, sunny summer day;
Random person: “Nice day, eh?”
Photographer: “So, so I guess…”
Random person: “What do you mean?! There isn’t a cloud in the sky”
Photographer: “Yeah, that’s the problem!”
Random person walks away puzzled.
It may seem [...] Read more:Sunny
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Chinny 2007-07-21 14:45:34 I have been tagged by Paul Lester to reveal 8 things you might not know about me. Since I have read some other posts lately about people’s pets, I have been wanting to introduce you to Chinny, even before being ‘tagged.’ So you will get only one for now.
Chinny (short for [...]
Black and white bird photography 2007-07-24 22:25:06 Black and white photography
is prevalent with landscapes, people, photojournalism and so many other types of subjects. Why is it then that we rarely see black and white images of birds (among other wildlife)? Is it because birds are generally very colorful in their own right that showing them in monochrome somehow [...] Read more:Black
Detroiter 2007-07-28 11:12:44 Something you didn’t know #2 … in a followup to my tagging to reveal things ‘you didn’t know’ - I thought it would be a good lead-in to simply refer you to a recent article at The Detroiter.com. It is a nice article about Dispatch and the efforts and dedication of the founder. Dispatch is [...]
Bearing with our impacts 2007-07-28 10:41:18 Yes Tim and Penny, not only did you immortalize your love in the bark of this very nice birch, but now you are immortalized in my blog as well. Ok, your relationship probably didn’t last. And not to pick on Tim and Penny specifically, but how about “MD + JP”, “Sue + [...]
Wildlife news 2007-07-31 04:34:46 I stumbled across a couple of pretty good wildlife news blogs recently. They both seem to have very informative posts. If you are like me, you already have a lot of feeds you are subscribed to, but these two are worth considering adding a couple more!
Wild Again
From their about page: “Named after [...]
Tahquamenon Bay | Lake Superior 2007-08-08 20:05:34 I am back from 5 days up in Michigan’s Upper Penninsula for a little R&R (and of course a little photography mixed in). Since I have not had internet access since last Friday, I came back to see quite a few spams posted in my blog. Sorry about that folks, they were particularly [...] Read more:Superior
Photography of sand, water & time 2007-08-11 09:11:06 During my recent trip to Michigan’s U.P. (Upper Penninsula for you out of state folk) - I spent most of my mornings taking advantage of the low water
levels in Lake Superior. In several bays, there were quite a few sandbars (or sandbanks if you prefer) and ‘tidepools’ that made for some really interesting [...]
The allure of the beach 2007-08-09 08:19:00 I have often thought that we have a pretty deep evolutionary connection to the sea, and it is one of the primal drivers that makes the ocean, the water, and the beach so alluring to so many. For me, it feels like my soul is being recharged when I am there. [...] Read more:allure
Magic, Mystery and appreciation 2007-08-15 20:06:57 When I first started photographing nature, I was in complete awe of the shots I would see in magazines. Even before I got serious about photography, I still enjoyed these pictures as a ‘casual observer’, but they were foreign to me in their creation. Somehow what was once very mysterious became [...] Read more:Magic
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Mind melding 2007-08-20 20:57:27 I heard a rather interesting story on NPR the other morning, a piece from their “This I Believe” series. It was a piece by poet George Bowering that described the connection of music in a way I had never heard or read before. Overall it was about much more, but [...]
Gallery Canvas Panels 2007-08-26 11:34:53 These GalleryCanvas
Panels are something I have just started doing this year. I created a few ‘prototypes’ and I liked them so much I ended up hanging one over my fireplace (above). They offer a unique alternative to the matted and framed photograph, especially when dealing with the cost to mat and [...]
Inspiration and fermentation 2007-08-25 08:08:18 I recently saw Greg Lato’s post where he describes some images that he has had sitting around for a couple of years contemplating what to do with them. Dan Sroka also wrote about this recently. I can relate to this completely. Quite often we capture images because something instinctively tells us to take [...] Read more:Inspiration
The Dark age of Digital Printing 2007-08-23 19:06:19 Anyone that prints their own work knows for all the enjoyment it can offer in having the ulimate control, it is plagued by an assortment of frustrations. If my Epson 4800 experiences one more major clog, I may be ready to throw it through the window. One of the hardest aspects to [...] Read more:Digital
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Firewire 800 upgrades 2007-08-22 21:14:13 It is hard to believe I am already feeling a bit cramped with nearly 2 TB (terabytes) of storage space. I imagine digital photographers of the future will be having 2 TB flash cards and look upon this as a joke like we often do when looking back at storing photos on a floppy disk. [...] Read more:upgrades
Nature Photography page 1 2007-08-27 19:20:55 WooHoo! Google Page 1!
For the longest time I have been trying to improve my Google rankings for the generic term of “nature photography.” It is a little side quest I have had - working on it a little at a time. I don’t get a huge amount of [...]
Applying formulas 2007-08-31 21:58:31 One of the things I am often conflicted about is when I read or hear about “the way to shoot” a particular subject. For example, for shorebirds, the way that is often proclaimed as the best way to shoot them is on your belly, as low as you can possibly go. This [...]
Dreaming of fall 2007-09-22 19:11:50 It seems like it has been a longer wait than usual this year, but fall has finally arrived. Probably because of a greater lull than usual in my summertime shooting. I plan on spending a bit more time with my multiple exposure techniques this fall. This is the image that really got [...] Read more:Dreaming
Creative currency 2007-09-16 18:12:33 As much as I like exploring new places, there is a certain risk you have to take that it is going to turn up a bust as far as image making. It is not an easy thing to swallow at times. Wandering about, trying to get a feel for a place - [...]
The Education of a Photographer 2007-09-14 17:21:11 I came across a post today by Alec Soth, who posted a list from the book The Education
of a Photographer
, by Charles Traub. Check it out the list here.
Some of my favorites from the list;
DO’s:
“Do fifty of them—you will definitely get a show”
“Construct your images from the edge inward”
“Do it sharp, if you can’t, [...]
The Great Paper Chase 2007-09-13 21:23:46 The world of inkjet fine art papers is quite amazing. There is an incredible amount of variety available today, and it seems a new kid on the block always creates an atmosphere of excitement. Every year we see new varieties from a continually growing market. Lately I have been reading about [...] Read more:Great
Just another box of cereal 2007-09-09 00:24:58 I was pleasantly surprised today to find a couple of images sold through my stock agency Alamy. Considering they have nearly 10 million images online, it seems like a needle in a haystack situation. They give you a good deal of information regarding the sale, all except who it was to and where it may [...]
Delicate rose 2007-09-07 21:16:18 I don’t have a lot to write about this particular shot, just wanted to share it. I was exploring some different processing in Lightroom and ended up combining a few different presets, with some manual tweaks of my own. Roses are such delicate objects, and I thought this portrayal said ‘delicate’ to me. It is [...]
Wetpixel Quarterly and missing underwater 2007-09-07 08:50:27 The folks over at Wetpixel have just introduced their print publication called Wetpixel Quarterly
. Given the talent of underwater
photographers over at Wetpixel, I have no doubt this will be a fantastic publication. There are not too many underwater photography print magazines out there that match up with the quality of [...]
Shoot first, ID later 2007-09-30 17:03:29 I really wish I was a better naturalist. I try though. My bookshelf is filled with identification guides of all sorts - bugs to birds, lichen to leaves. But the ol’ hard drive in my head can’t seem to pack in much more information these days. So quite often when I am in the field, [...] Read more:Shoot
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Milkweed photography 2007-09-29 19:07:54 Milkweed is quite an interesting plant. From its budding and flowering, to attracting monarch caterpillars, to its eruption of its seedpods in fall - it offers quite a bit to explore. This plant is critical to the life-cycle and defenses of the monarch butterfly. By consuming the toxins in this plant, [...] Read more:photography
Its final form…JPEG, slide, or print? 2007-09-28 18:42:58 The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. - Ansel Adams
This quote has certainly been repeated many, many times over the years. It is usually brought up in the context of how a photograph truly isn’t complete until it is [...] Read more:hellip
In search of symbiotic subjects 2007-10-07 15:15:09 One of the ‘themes’ I have been looking for while out in the field are situations where all of the elements have some type of symbiotic, circular relationship. It it more of a visual, thematic relationship rather than a biological symbiotic one. I have it as an ongoing project to collect certain images [...]
Saturated with information 2007-10-03 18:41:57 If you read this blog, I would guess that you read a few others as well. I do too. My Google Reader list has about 80 of them and seems to be growing. There is another bunch in my sidebar. This is in addition to podcasts that I download to [...] Read more:information
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