I finished my personal challenge to photograph the river birch tree in my backyard each day for 30 days. 30 Day Project On this rainy Monday in September I’m feeling a sense of accomplishment and also relief. While working on this project I made more than 375 photographs of the Read more…
This morning I decided to practice photographing wood ducks in the pond with my Canon 100-400 mm lens and 1.4X extender. My first photos were awful. None of the fast moving ducks I photographed were quite in focus. I fiddled with my lens and my camera menu selections thinking that Read more…
Recently a photographer friend of mine and I decided to partner in building idea fluency (see my blog post Early Morning Light) and photographic expression. We agreed to regularly choose a word or phrase from which each of us would create a conceptual photograph. We chose for our first phrase Read more…
Every once in a while I feel like I’ve become stuck in a rut in my photography. When that happens it’s time to change things up. And now for something different Two days ago I decided to simply experiment with simple images to create abstracts that are more designs than Read more…
Yesterday as I was going through old photos I came upon some photos of hydrangea that I made in 2014. The images inspired me to create a loose and abstract painting of hydrangeas (below). This morning I photographed the painting, brought it into Photoshop and combined it with some of Read more…