The Best Camera
I have a pretty sweet camera, even if it’s aging a bit now: a Nikon Z6 (first generation) mirrorless, with the excellent original Nikkor 24-70mm zoom lens, as well as…
Dunno…?
Hello again! Did you miss me? Did you at least notice I was gone? Are you there? [tap tap tap] Is this thing even on? *Ahem.* Anyway, yes, I’ve been…
Riding in Cars with Photoshop
Having discovered last week how much fun I can have playing with old car photos (from last summer’s Cruisin’ festival in Morro Bay), today I’ve been going way overboard in…
Ogres have layers, and so do I
Lately I’ve been having far too much fun playing with layers in Photoshop. It’s not like I didn’t know that layers existed, or even that I haven’t used them before.…
Basics
There was once a time of great photographers, whose body of work was created entirely (or nearly so) in black and white. Giants of the medium including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert…
Because the Night
Ever since I bought a second-hand tripod several months ago (to replace the one left behind in our still-unsold French house), I’ve had an itch to go out and do…
Lincoln: Project Reveal
Right, so today Carol and I officially submitted our images for the Morro Bay Art Association’s Orange Crush exhibition; and as I’ve been teasing for the last couple weeks, the…
Lincoln, Part the Second
Last time, I promised I would feature a couple more photos from Lincoln, the photo collage I’ll be submitting to the Orange Crush exhibition at the MBAA Gallery later this…
Lincoln
When I left my office job in 1985 to go to UVa for Art History grad school, my motivation was to study Gothic architecture. Since then, my life has gone…
Being Alive to the Unexpected
Yesterday, I went on an expedition with the express purpose of sharpening my skills with my neutral density filter — which is to say, I went looking for moving water.…
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