It’s my greatest creative outlet, a dog with a camera.
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 […]
There are times when I am in a place, in a space, when my gut instinct says, “there is an interesting photo here” even if I do not know exactly what it is. Usually it is vivid or interesting light, as was partly the case here, This photo is from a store in Flagstaff Arizona […]
Maybe the best photographic advice I came across (forgetting the source) is to “Look for the light”. At first, this might seem the textbook kind of suggestion of always having the light come from behind. But this is different. Look for interesting light. This means looking for both the vivid light of sunrise/sunset, the diffuse […]
If you see my flickr stream you will find a lot of flower photos. In some ways there are not too many things you can do to change up the standard shot. In lieu of having a macro lens, I have an approach for these extreme closeups– for me, I find this move in very […]
I have an attraction for taking photos of old objects that have a lot of wear and tear, like this wooden level that belonged to my Dad. Wood has this sense of absorbing some energy from the person that holds it (or it makes a nice story to tell), where is modern tools of plastic, […]
Of the 30,000 photos I have uploaded to flickr in the last 9 years I’d guess more than a third were taken in my 1/3 acre yard or house. My guess might be totally off, but I have yet to find on a given day that I cannot locate something new, different. Being home this […]
Springtime at home means a steady stream of macro sots of flowers, and I am rarely disappointed to find a new way to photograph something I have done before. A key of course is a sharp lens, I doubt you get real crisp shots with a zoom lens. This one is with my trusty nifty […]
Sometimes I do not get what I intended in a photograph, and end up trashing them. In this case, I got something different, but better. This was a series where I was attempting to get a panning photo of something in motion, where you use a relatively slow shutter speed, and move the camera at […]
This week in ds106, my class starts a week of looking at visual storytelling, primarily in working with their own photographs. For me, this is some of my favorite stuff since I love taking photos. I’d like them all to get better at taking interesting photos, moving from snapshot mentality to be composing in their […]
