It’s my greatest creative outlet, a dog with a camera.
Bad Alan. This has been lingering in the to do pile too long. On my route home from Canada last month, I made it a specific point to make my last stop in St George Utah, to visit Carl Berger. He’s been retired from University of Michigan for some time, but that does not mean […]
This bot of metal sculpture sits atop a bicycle shelter on the campus of Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, British Columbia. I’ve noticed in numerous times since I arrived here three months ago. It has a stylish shape. On this clear day, in mid afternoon, the light was super contrasty strong. I thought that it […]
We are rolling out today the You Show’s The Daily – a site that will generate a small creative challenge every day at 8:00am PT. A new one will be […]
Photos taken on January 1 are important to me as they are the start of a new daily photo set/album on flickr, a practice I have done every year back TO 2008. For this first day of the new year I traveled from Vancouver to Victoria via BC Ferries. It was the fourth in a […]
From some banter via twitter this morning with Clint Lalonde and Pat Lockley, it occurred to me a great challenge to Creative Commons is that the license is metadata that is usually separated from the content it refers too– e.g. it is extra code in a web page, or additional information stored with a photo […]
There’s much technically about the photo that could be better, especially the focus, and maybe a tad of a bigger number (smaller hole) aperture to the depth of field not quite the shadow. But the joy was capturing this while perched on a chair, holding the camera up over the gutter, and blind aiming down […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine It’s been quite a while since I created a Gigapan panorama, the last one maybe in June of 2011 in Golden Colorado. A few weeks later I was at Grand Teton National Park, and after tossing my truck, I realized I must have […]
As a photographer, I know how many of us prefer to be in the back side of a camera, so I was really pleased to capture this image of Mark, a fellow camera dude. We were both in the front row of the annual storytelling festival, Tellabration, in Pine, AZ (his wife Liz is a […]
The camera sensor often sees quite a bit more (or less) than our own eyes. In October 2013 I was in Alaska, my first time there, with a generous invite to speak at a conference at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. I planned a few days before so I could see the big scenery. The […]
I bet I crop 90% of my photos in post editing. Sometimes it is minor, to remove a distracting element on a margin, but often, I feel like I can make a less interesting photo more so by using the crop tool to isolate detail or just frame it better. Should I ever teach a […]
