In the photography classes that I teach I give a Photo Assignment each week to the students in my class. In our last class I chose an assignment that I found in Bryan Peterson’s book Bryan Peterson Photography School. The assignment was: Choose a subject. Using a single lens (24-70 Read more…
This morning I picked up my camera to photograph a pair of mallard ducks in the pond behind our house. Unfortunately I had forgotten that the last time I used my camera I set the camera settings to allow longer exposures for intentional camera movement images. I made about a Read more…
One of my friends from the photo club I’m a member of has been doing Deep Sky Astrophotography from her tiny backyard in south Minneapolis! The photos that she has created in her postage-stamp sized yard amongst all of the light pollution of the city amaze me. So I asked Read more…
This morning I noticed a group of northern shoveler ducks in the pond behind our house. They circle round and round with their big bills half submerged in the water eating small creatures that live in the water. I know that they are just Passing Through this area on their Read more…
At the Minnetonka Center for the Arts this week, I taught my first Making Photographs class. It did not go as I expected it would. Each of the students was looking for something different from the class than I anticipated. It was a good lesson in remaining open. After pondering Read more…