Rain, slick bricks, walking boot, crutches, camera. Fall and (re)injure yourself under such circumstances and you will be ridiculed and shamed. Maybe even treatment withheld. Here, I could lie and claim I did not even contemplate taking a walk under …
Tag: Street photography
Randomness
Two days ago I traded my surgical splint for a walking boot. I’m learning so much from this experience. Like, a walking boot is a partial misnomer. For the first two weeks in the boot I cannot put more than …
Losing My Mind!
Laid up in this room, I keep shooting the same shots with different cameras. I’m watching the world going by outside and I want to scream! (I may have actually screamed.) What I wouldn’t give to be able to take …
Raw From Testing Raw Processors
Maybe I will go back to film. For all the many advantages of digital over film when it comes to developing your shots, you can drown in the complexities and choices. Because chaos binges on chaos, I decided that switching …
WTHIGO
For the last three weeks I’ve been uttering this to myself numerous times a day. It’s all Google’s fault. Really, isn’t that true for just about everything? Google was not indexing my previous “lensflare” site. Months and it’s internet crawling …
Then these happened…
I was all set to do a post about perspective, which is ironic because most (all) who know me would say I lack it. These two shots were taken hundreds of miles apart on consecutive mornings. Yesterday and today. Sans …
To Be or Not To Be, Candidly
I love candid or street photos. The capturing (and it is a capture) of a scene that would otherwise disappear into the next without any pause or recognition. It appeals to our natural voyeuristic reflexes. Recently, however, in an article …
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…
Nothing says get off your ass and take some photographs then the thought of a world filled with Hollywood style cinematic moments of reflective wet streets, sidewalks, and windows dripping tears. So I did with my Leica SL with an …
Farmer’s Market Paparazzi
Credit to the woman staffing one of the market’s stalls for this post’s title. As I was focusing my camera on her display (see photo #8), she smiled and to those within earshot exclaimed, “Look everyone, it is the Paparazzi.” …