It’s hard to believe that 90 days have already passed since I started my project 365. One of the things I don’t have in my kit bag as a photographer is the knowledge and experience with working with artificial lighting. Wanting to create a soft box so that […]
Bet this is one place you’ve never been before. I’ve got a large garden which requires truckloads of mulch every year. I used to have a professional landscaper provide the mulch who charged me the price of my first born. Little did I know of this recycling place […]
It was a challenging morning today. Starting off with not being able to find my car keys, I ended up having to take a secondary car. I had wanted to go birding at Swans Creek, but had forgotten the wind forecast for the day. Upon arrival, I opened […]
Have you ever sat down with your camera and played with all the buttons. Some of these cameras offer fancy in-camera editing like my Canon 60D. These in-camera edits are available only when shooting .jpg images and not RAW. Here is my original image with some basic Lightroom […]
Money makes the world go around, the world go around. And when traveling inevitably some coins from those travels end up at the bottom of your pocket with nowhere to go but home as souvenirs. A few contributions from family members, I have an international conglomerate of lost […]
Thanks to Lynford Morton of Phototour DC and creating his Photo Project 2013 on Google +, this week I’ve been given a new photography assignment. The project? A composition and perspective challenge to photograph a subject by going around 360 degrees. Trying to find a perspective that goes […]
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White
Click on image above to link to my SmugMug Gallery Today’s been an adventure on the desktop. With an assignment from my BetterPhoto class with Jim Zuckerman, Making Money with Your Photography, the challenge had been set. This week’s homework? Creating artistic photographs for display at an art […]
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand Canon 7d, Macro 100mm f/2.8 L, 2.0 sec at f/22, ISO 125, AWB. Lightroom Adjustments: Medium contrast tone curve, autotone, OnOne preset: Gritty […]
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
Emily Carter ~ Nature as Art 