Happy Easter
What do you do on an Easter weekend? visit friends of course, and then you spend a few hours exploring a bouquet of flowers...
Photo of the Month
I have been trying to figure out a way to cull my photographs. Even (especially?) in the film days, it was easy to accumulate a lot of images. Most of…
New Camera Adventures 1
So I picked up a Nikon D500 from a friend last week. For a number of technical issues{{1}} I was concerned the image quality would not be up to my…
what makes a photographer
I had brunch today with a group of artist friends. Most of these friends are painters and we were having a conversation on what makes an artist, and the difference…
Old photographers loved fractions
One of the things that seems to confuse new photographers is the fact that everything seems to be the opposite. For example, a small f-number lets in less light than…
My Christmas card
I went for a short walk with my dad the other day at the Malcolm Knapp research forest. As we were entering the park, I saw this scene and thought…
Bored in a Parking Lot
I was with a friend who wanted to run into Golf World for a few minutes. I am not a golfer so I said I would wait by the car.…
My workflow, and how I organize my images
Post processing is a necessary step in creating a great photo. Back in the day, I had binders full of negatives, slides, and proof prints and I would spend hours in…
Old Photos
I was having a bit of a creative block. I could not get motivated to take photos, so I had a look at photos I have taken in previous years…
Painting with Light
There is a genre of painting called photorealism or even hyperrealism, where a painter tries to make a painting look like a photograph. I tend to take photographs that are trying…