watching the grass grow
You may soon be seeing more macro/closeup photography on the website. I got away from it for a while thanks to the summer heat we are experiencing around here. High temps are tough on an old man. But guess what? This is something I can do indoors! It is going to be a bring the
For most of my photographic life, I assumed that photography required three things: a camera, something worth photographing, and the ability to walk over to it. The first two have never been particularly difficult. The third has become a problem. Arthritis has gradually made standing and walking increasingly difficult, and eventually I had to admit
There comes a point in a photographer’s life when the question changes from “What camera should I buy?” to “What camera can I actually carry?” For years, I had happily accumulated photography equipment under the assumption that more equipment somehow meant more photography. Bigger cameras, bigger lenses, bigger bags. If a lens weighed about as
For most of my life, photography meant going somewhere. It meant putting a camera in a bag, finding a place worth photographing, and then figuring out how to get myself, the camera, and whatever other equipment I had accumulated to that place. Sometimes it meant walking down a trail, climbing a hill, wandering around a
For the past thirty years, I have considered myself a landscape photography enthusiast. I have cameras. I have lenses. I have tripods. I have memory cards, camera bags, filters, batteries, cleaning supplies, and enough photography equipment to give the impression that I know what I’m doing. I have also spent thirty years looking at beautiful
Turning a photograph of an inanimate object sideways can reveal a surprisingly different photographic perspective, changing its proportions, silhouette, balance, and relationship to the surrounding space. A subject may look ordinary when photographed from its usual orientation, but rotating it can expose details, contours, textures, and shapes that are easily overlooked. Sideways positioning can also
I have spent the better part of the last thirty years creating websites, which sounds much more impressive than it actually is. Over that time, I have designed hundreds of them—probably enough to qualify as a minor case study in digital restlessness. I have built sites about photography, travel, hobbies, observations, food, and various other
There was a time when I considered myself a serious photographer. I photographed landscapes, flowers, interesting buildings, unusual objects, and occasionally things that appeared to have some artistic significance. I had cameras, lenses, tripods, filters, memory cards, and all the other equipment required to convince myself that I knew what I was doing. Then, somewhere
I am a photographer. At least, that’s what I tell people. I take photographs. Lots of them. I photograph plants, landscapes, buildings, interesting objects, strange things I happen to notice, and occasionally things that probably weren’t nearly as interesting as I thought they were when I photographed them. What I don’t do is talk about
For a long time, photography meant walking. I would take a camera, go somewhere, wander around and see what I could find. The walking was almost as much a part of photography as the camera itself. Now that I can no longer walk, that part of photography has simply disappeared. I can’t stroll down a