....when you leave you house at O-dark early to create some photographs on the way to a client's and it's really foggy at your house, but it's clear as a bell when you get to where you want to photograph....but further down the road you can see the coastal fog slidding over the costal mountain... Continue Reading →
Happy Father’s Day
Worm Holes #2 ...Here in the U.S., we celebrate Fathers Day this Sunday. Yes, a good reason to honor dad. So I will be taking my son-in-law out for a round of golf, maybe he will give me some strokes. Then back to his house for the BBQ and fun with the grandkids. Should be... Continue Reading →
That’s life
I had planned to get my Epson 4800 roll feed working and take a whack at making a very wide landscape print, but instead, I'm replacing a 15 year old garage door opener. ....best made plans of mice and men... Best regards, Doug Continuing on.... The first step is to remove the old garage door opener, but after... Continue Reading →
DSLR sensor resolution
I've been meaning to add my two cents to the discussions about sensor resolution that were going around recently. This much I know from doing some "engineering" resolution testing, for my Canon XTi and my two Canon L lens, 17-40mm f/4 and 70-200mm f/4, the very best (optimum) image resolution is at f/6 and f/7.1 respectfully. FYI,... Continue Reading →
Artistic Validation
Tired Bones When I create something, be it a photographic image or an acrylic painting, I do appreciate the feedback from others that the artwork meant something to them, which I would call artistic validation. I think of it as a metaphor for making a connection with someone. Before, I made landscape photographs for... Continue Reading →
Searching for the soul of the Landscape
Stand of Trees I was reading Nick Brandt's book On This Earth, where he writes of his photographing technique in the Afterward. It struck a cord within me as being similar to what I have found that I am doing when photographing the landscape. He states (my excerpts) "I don't use telephoto lens....I want to get a real sense of... Continue Reading →
What is a “good” landscape; Part two
Non-Postcard of Bavaria After writing my earlier message this morning, I started to wonder, did I keep the second version that I aluded to? After doing some digging in the back-up CD's, there is was. So to help make what I hope was my point, this is another image in the same area, different day, different... Continue Reading →
What is a “good” landscape photograph?
Postcard of Bavaria Yesterday there was another round of discussion as to what constitued a "good" landscape photograph. This was initiated by a review of some recently published landscape images in Blind Spot magazine. I guess what bothers me is that there are the judgements regarding "good" landscape images, infurring of course that there are "bad" landscape... Continue Reading →
My Blog photos
More about the blog managment; yesterday I resized my posted images to from large jpg to small jpgs. Now that I am traveling and completing a quick review from some other computers, the small images do not appear any where near what they potentially should. So until I return and reload them again as a medium size jpg, please do... Continue Reading →
Evolving Lanscape images
Tree Grove, Warsaw Indiana Earlier this year, I made the image above, Tree Grove, Warsaw Indiana, and I have realized that my landscape photograhy has evolved yet again. I believe that I am a long way from what I thought landscape photography must be and actively practiced back in the mid 1970's. Those were the days just after... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 