I think every artist has a list of those spots that for whatever reason(s) elude their capture. Whether it is the light or the tempo or the context or the mood or the feeling there is something that always seems …
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A Variation on the Theme Recovering
Confined to bed does not mean I can’t continue to play around with different compositions and the two cameras residing with me using the natural lighting in my cell, er, room using the props available to me. In this case …
Six Screws a Screwing…
is what I got for Christmas instead of “six geese a laying.” Now, I’ve never been quite sure what six geese a laying are doing, but whatever it may be, it must be better than six screws a screwing into …
Night Lights
I’ve written before how much I like shooting at night. I don’t mean dusk, early evening, sunset–I mean DARK. Nothing but the moon and whatever other artificial light may exist. (Let’s remember that the moon is dark except for the …
“Views From Within A Room” A Fractured Ankle Christmas Story
No surprise that dislocating your ankle and fracturing your tibia on Christmas Eve morning sucks. Being confined to one room downstairs on a pull-out daybed is no way to ring in the holiday. Worse, however, is having all your cameras …
“Thin Blue Line”
On the East side of the police station on East Grace street in Richmond, VA is this interesting sculpture by Michael Stutz: A bust of a police officer in uniform with a blue line running down the side of the …
Merry Christmas!
Simply no way to post an entry on Christmas morning with another title. Trust me, I gave it some thought. It is snowing in New Hampshire. A lot. 6-11 inches are falling. It’s beautiful. I won’t be taking any photographs …
Hold Your Phones…
Of course you will, because you do, because you must. Our camera phones are the revolution. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, social media generally, would not be or be what it is without the almost instantaneous snapping and posting of our daily …
“The Shining” Examples of the X1D 50c.
Hallways in the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, VA. The black and white tones and shades embedded in these larger files not to mention the resolution at higher ISO’s makes the X1D’s raw files fun to develop. As for its ergonomics, …