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In this Blog some of my photography and I will convey my thoughts about cameras and all the associated equipment we may use and my approach to photography as an art form.
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Are the Photographic Print Dead?
The free print contest is still open for the month of September. Please leave a comment with the words ‘free print’ included in your comment. I have included some sample images to give an idea of the range of images available.The title may be a l...
Canadian Architecture and the Delta Stone Mill
Whenever I head out of town I always have my camera with me, as you never know when a photo opportunity will present itself even travelling well-worn routes. But I must admit that there are times when travelling down the road that I realize too l...
SoFoBoMo 2009 – A Walk around the Pond
Well I finally finished my SoFoBoMo 2009 project. It always seems to take more effort near the end, as those little finishing details do seem to add up. A Walk around the Pond This year, due to 2 unforeseen events, I was not able to truly complete it...
Creativity Article and Candid Portraits
This week I came across a good article on the topic of creativity. This is something I try to write on and then only in specific areas. As far as I know there are no perfect formulae that all of a sudden will make you creative.Being creative is mainl...
Be Thankful for our Modern Cameras
Today I feel grateful that our modern cameras work so well that from a technical camera point-of-view it is quite simple to take very good images. I am also thankful that I have over the past few years taken a lot of photographs.You may wonder as to ...
Web Makes Poor place for Photographs
I was working on set of images from a walk I did about 2 weeks ago to shoot from the top of a large hill, which was the highest point in a radius of 25km. While I was trying to bring out all the fine detail of leafless branches this winter scene it o...
Nykobing Mors Panoramas
As part of my 8GB walk-about which I discussed in the last 2 articles (see realted links at end) I also decided to take some extra wide panoramic images. Having a small body of water between you and a landscape or cityscape makes it easy to get some...
My 8GB Walk-about
That’s correct, the distance is measured in giga bytes, not miles or kilometres even though I walked for a 4-hour period. It is measured by the amount of memory that is loaded in the camera. One windy but dry afternoon, things were quiet at my ...
The Red Barn and Hay Fields
I was reviewing some images to select for this weeks post, which was to be on a beautiful wooden 12th century Norwegian Heddal Stave Church. While playing around, undertaking serious fine-art editing, I thought that maybe the image I was working on w...
The White Cliffs of ….. Mons Klint?
On one of our daily excursions while on Sjealand we headed to the most south-eastern part you could get to on this main island of Denmark. In fact you have to cross a bridge to get to the island of Mon, which is just a kilometre off shore.This area h...
Silver Railings – a Photographic Study – Part II
It was a dark and stormy night… well not really, as I was fortunate that on one evening during the week I was able to get some evening captures of the metal railings series in the ‘Garden of Provinces’ Park in order to complete the study of lig...
Silver Railings – a Photographic Study – Part 1
Morning, Evening and NightWell, so far I have captured 2 of the 3 above lighting conditions, as weather is the true variable in outdoor illuminations.This year I am fortunate as I am a passenger while going to work and with that pleasure I am able to...
Spring Tune-up Time
Keeping things in proper working order means, that from time to time, looking under the hood, or in my case examining the inner workings of my mind to see how well it’s working and if I need a tune up.By trying to explain a bit about why I like to ...
Indoor and Outdoor Studio Photography – Table-Top Flowers
Occasionally the weather does not permit us to be able to go out to get the flowers shots we would like to capture. Maybe even the flowers that are interesting are not available at the moment due to wrong time of season for flowering.Why not cut som...
SoFoBoMo – The Fuzzy Month and now Fuzzy Mind
2 weeks ago I mentioned that I had finally locked in on my SoFoBoMo project, this being a special place that I visit regularity, known to a small circle of friends as “The Land”. There was a concern I had that I may not have enough good photos to...
Do You Love Your Subjects ? Man on Bench
Not in the romantic sense, but spiritually or camera wise, even though I am sure many of us do have subject in the former description.On the way to the Ottawa Busker’s Festival , I ventured through Confederation Park and I came across this gentlem...
Replacing Skies or What Mood Today
For many images, at least when they are taken outdoors, it’s the skies that set the mood or re-enforces it for the scene.When you are doing an outdoor shoot, especially if it is some distance away, the skies may be quite different from your startin...
A Visit to an Old Friend
This blog is about re-visiting an old friend or should I say like looking at my old high-school photos and they can seem strange today. This was one of the first images were I spent considerable time enhancing it in Photoshop to make a print of it.I...
Oooops! Inverted and Upside Down
I few weeks ago there was B&W print competition at my local Camera Club, with a topic of ‘My Backyard’. I only had one photo that I thought might win and I was trying to find creative idea for another entry that would be of sufficient calibe...
Vision – An approach to a B&W Composite Image
With photography the creative process of discovery is what truly excites me. It starts first with the discovery of a hidden image and then being transformed by the rendition captured in the camera. Then creative process to bring to life the final pri...
