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Travel and Compromise
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain
What I have found, is that as a photographer, there are compromises that need to be made when travelling. The number of…
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Too Perfect?
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” Salvador Dali
I was sharing with a friend photos from Bali. He surprised me and said the pictures were too perfect ! LoL
Are these photos too perfect?
Everyday beauty, Common offering of flowers in Bali
Sunrise and fishing
Sunset
Rice paddies and mountains
I would argue that they are not too perfect, but rather their imperfections are not as…
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Travels in Bali
Much has happened since the last post in September, including a computer crash and a trip to Bali, Indonesia. One of the most powerful characteristics of travel, is its ability to allow us to challenge assumptions about life and living that we take for granted. When a fish is out of water it suddenly notices the lack of water that it never noticed before. The featured photo is of Tanah Lot, Bali
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Travels in Bali
Much has happened since the last post in September, including a computer crash and a trip to Bali, Indonesia. One of the most powerful characteristics of travel, is its ability to allow us to challenge assumptions about life and living that we take for granted. When a fish is out of water it suddenly notices the lack of water that it never noticed before. The featured photo is of Tanah Lot, Bali
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Shout out for ThinkTank Photo !
Shout out for ThinkTank Photo !
I have to write this post! I have a ThankTank Airport Addicted (no longer made) that I love as a camera backpack! I’m guessing that the closest one today is the Airport Accelerator. There are several fundamental themes as to why I love my ThinkTank products (I also have a large sling bag from them).
ThinkTank Photo
ThinkTank Photo
They work! I have acquired and given away probably half a…
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Back it up! -Backups save the soul
Back it up! -Backups save the soul
Skateboarder on a pipe, Santa Cruz
There is this awful feeling – you put your heart and soul in to creating a set of photos, only to have them gone for some technical reason. Backups tend to minimize this. When people have to evacuate their homes, almost always they take their family photos. How important are your photos? What are you doing about it? Remember Murphy was an optimist; the…
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Devil is in the the details
Devil is in the the details
ADHD makes details difficult, luckily meds make a huge difference ! Never the less, the devil is in the details :-) Several things have been reminding me of this lately; some post processing work I have been doing, and planning the Columbia gorge trip with others.
The featured image of the Canadian Rockies was originally to dark and the clouds were blown out. I had it on my home page after…
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Planning waterfalls and fall colors
Planning waterfalls and fall colors
This October, rather than our regular Eastern Sierra Fall colors trip, we are planning a trip to Oregon for waterfalls with fall colors. Part of the issue is that for my son and I the Eastern Sierra are becoming cliche; we know where a large number of great shots can be taken from, not that there are not more, new and different ones, but the obvious shots have been collected, in my LR catalog I…
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Pretty Pictures
This week, I am not writing very much. I have spent much of my photo time the last two weeks looking at photos and improving them in the digit dark room with the goal of making pretty pictures. I have found that over time, my criteria for what is an okay picture has evolved, that I get pickier about what I like. The pictures today generally have to have better composition, and be better…
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Good Photo Hygiene
“Photography suits the temper of this age – of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.”
by Edward Weston.
Yes, I admit that I had fun with the title ! :-) Photo hygiene is a catchy title for spotting photos.…
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Learning something new
Moon & Planet through the Tufa; learning night photography
When I go out to a restaurant, often I order something new, just to see what it is like, but sometimes I have the tried and true (like vanilla ice cream). Most folks I know have some spark of adventure in them, and some being comfortable. I drive the same 4 routes to work with very little adventure, whichever way is quickest, but with…
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What Makes a Powerful Photo?
What Makes a Powerful Photo?
I was pondering what makes a powerful photo? I was reflection on my photos from over the years some of which are here, others on my site (PLP), and found that the memorable, powerful photos were those that evoke strong emotions, even after years.
The cover image with the beam of light is a classic, almost cliche image, none the less it still has that strong sense of ‘let there be light’ of…
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Cropping - The Big Win
Cropping – The Big Win
Before Cropping
Cropping is usually the single biggest impact operation on a photo to improve it, though not always. The general rule is do biggest impact global changes first, and local changes later. Sometimes exposure may trump cropping. In the leading image it is a toss up as to whether cropping or exposure needs to be address first. Below are a set of samples that show different types of…
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'...Lightroom is not difficult', but ....
‘…Lightroom is not difficult’, but ….
I came across a blog posting to the affect that Lightroom was not difficult to use. The title got me to thinking, that it is correct in so far as it goes, but there are things that are difficult. First off, for those who don’t know, Lightroom (LR) is an Adobe application for photographers to work with photos. It has a number of capabilities that meet the needs of different folks. Adobe has…
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Trip Planning
“Chance favors the prepared mind” Louis Pasteur
Most every year my wife, Laurie, and I make a spring trip to the Southwest. It is a time we both look forward to; as she says ‘you drag me to such beautiful places and you don’t rush me once we are there.’ The trips are planned around getting good photos. How many times have you seen really nice photos and said to yourself, ‘ How come mine don’t…
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Everything in its time...
Everything in its time…
Escalante – Lower Calf Creek Panorama
Looking out the window
Decades ago, in grad school, I took a class on the economics of software development. In that class we had to read a book, The Mythical Man Month by Brooks, which is the source of the quote ‘nine women and a month don’t make a baby’. As much as I would like to hurry things along in photography, there are things that take time.
I…
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Eagles
Decades ago, I worked on Don Henley’s house, the founder of the Eagles. This is not about that, but rather about the bird, the American icon, the trash scrounger, and pretty bird; the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), the white headed sea hawk see Wikipedia on eagles.
Although eagles are found in all of the continental states, they are not always near where we might live unless you have…
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