As the end of the year approaches it always seems appropriate to look back on the preceding months. During this holiday season I have been studying the images of this year and trying to identify those I’m most pleased with. Today I perused my Lightroom catalog – January through March of this year and narrowed […]
This morning I awoke to a fresh snowfall I had not expected, so I had to hurry out and see what I could find to photograph. Since I had to drop some images off at Gallery 54 anyway, I decided that a wintery street scene might be nice. I took this photo in color, as […]
It really wasn’t all that wintery today. But since it is the first day of Winter, the shortest daylight hours of the year, I had to get out and try to get something. I decided that Skaneateles Lake was my best opportunity and that the early sunset might work out. As it happened, it wasn’t […]
I‘ve seen some questions about printing recently, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on the subject. My thinking on photo papers is limited to my experience with printing my own work and therefore limited to relatively inexpensive inkjet printers. I’ve been told that laser printers are faster that inkjet, but not as capable of […]
Do you ever get asked that question? Do you ask it yourself . . . of your own photographs? More important, do we, as photographers answer the question . . . can we answer the question? It occurs to me that too often the answer is a blank stare. It’s a critical question if we […]
How many of us in Central New York have used this phrase lately? “Starting to look a lot like winter.” I know I’ve heard it and used it myself more than a couple times. For some reason this phrase popped into my head as I was heading outside to photograph the spruce that caught my eye […]
Last night, all of a sudden, the water in our home stopped flowing. That can ruin your evening I assure you. But, we found out it could get worse because we woke up this morning to a cold house, still without water of course, but also without heat and lights because electricity in the neighborhood was […]
Anyone who knows me, or has followed my blog at all, probably thinks I’m obsessed with my search to try and define phrases such as “Fine art photography.” For certain, I want to understand, and I want to help others understand, what it is that qualifies a photograph to be described as “Fine art.” So, […]
One of the things I like about these days between real autumn and real winter is that it forces me to keep things simple. There’s not a lot in the grand landscape that’s interesting to me most days. Still, with a little patience and attention to “tiny landscapes”, or extracts, we can come home with […]
While we are almost constantly thinking about our aperture and our shutter speed when out composing and capturing our images, most experienced photographers barely think about the relationship between the two fundamental elements of photography because it quickly becomes almost intuitive. Still, it’s one of those elements of photography that puzzles many of the newer […]