...just when I thought everyone (that is the few that read my blog) were tired of hearing me go on about my series, Bad Trip - Sad Trip, I find that I do have one reader, Paul Butzi (blog: Musing on Photography) who gave me a very nice review and a hint to carry on. On the... Continue Reading →
Santa Rosa Plateau revisited
Worm Holes ...Well, I did get up at O-dark early and head out to the Santa Rosa Plateau this morning, and I had to drive through some very dense fog to get there. And I had some fun, this image being one of the more interesting ones. Now I have a small collection of these... Continue Reading →
Santa Rosa Plateau
...As a business person, I have always believed that networking was good. You can never can tell what can come from a contact and a friendly conversation. So I have carried networking over to my artistic development, that if a person expresses an interest in my images, I take the time to discuss what is I... Continue Reading →
Serial series
....seems that one project series is the food for thought that can generate ideas for another series. So now I am now considering another series that resulted from a current series. Am I clear??? Okay, here is what has recently happened: First, I found that static landscape images are not working for me as much any more. ... Continue Reading →
Irvine Fine Arts Center reception
Tired Bones ...Last night I attended the artist reception at the Irvine Fine Arts Center for our group exhibit, nice show and good turnout, including my local family & friends. I had a taped interviewed for the City of Irvine public tv, which was totally unexpected. Most of the awards went to very large color contempary landscape images, except Ellen, a... 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 →
Art Business 101 – Introduction
...I had recently commented on a blog about the business of art and it was written as a satire. After talking to a bunch of other artist, I may have not been too far off the mark. Artist learn to create art, not how to market and sell it. After a couple of requests, I... Continue Reading →
Planned Haphazardness
...One of the good things that occurs while I have a heavy client load and doing a lot of driving, etc., is the opportunity to be reflective about the issues I am facing in life as well as thoughts about my photographic process. I wrote about creativity recently and I have been in a couple of... Continue Reading →
Quasi-Awareness
...Last week I was working my way through the changes to my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, eliminating the diffussion filtering and slowly updating all of my back ups, etc. Also a heavy travel week for my client projects, but as so happens, one door opens to another. I take a local toll road for... Continue Reading →
Nikon 8000L film Scanner
West Clear Creek ..a quick user review of the Nikon 8000L film scanner that I have been using for the last four to five years for my medium format negatives. As a result of a number of questions about how I get my images on the computer when I use a medium format camera with film, I... Continue Reading →
