Once again I was out of town for the salon. However, this time I found a friend to take notes, so I have some idea what the judges were thinking. Prints: Open monochrome As usual, finding and creating suitable monochrome images was a challenge Leaving the courtyard I took this shot in a castle in Read More …
April brought another competition for the Saint Paul Camera Club. Print Competition: Monochrome I had a horrible time choosing prints for this month’s monochrome competition. Well, that’s not exactly true. I had no trouble choosing prints; it was the printing that gave me problems. Both of the prints I wanted to use looked best with Read More …
I spent a morning shooting Minnehaha Falls last winter. Then I spent a couple of evenings experimenting in Lightroom. I started off by just moving sliders around to get a soft feel. Not sure what I was looking for, I started going through my collection of presets. I like the way Trey Ratcliff handles images, Read More …
You may recall October’s salon was pretty brutal. Not one to give up, I put as much of my limited time as I could into preparing submissions for November. And then I left for a month in Vietnam and Laos. Because I missed the salon itself (you don’t have to be physically present for your Read More …
Earlier this spring I shot a series of photos of a fish shack along Stoney Point north of Duluth, Minnesota. It was a cloudy, damp day with occasional rain, but I think I got a few acceptable shots. They’re fine, but most aren’t particularly interesting, so I decided to play with them a bit and Read More …
In February I joined the St. Paul Camera Club. It’s something I’ve thought about on and off over the years, but had never taken the time to look into. A photography event earlier in the winter made me realize that this was something I really needed to do . . . so I went to Read More …
Intense backlighting from the late afternoon sun made shooting a challenge at the Seven Mile Bridges (there are two bridges, a modern highway bridge and the remains of a historic bridge) in the Florida Keys, but I also loved the way the light both illuminated and obscured the bridges. I think black and white enhances Read More …
A local photographer gave a class on photographing frozen bubbles today, so (of course) I went. I learned what I did wrong last year (making really big bubbles instead of little ones), tips I can incorporate into this year’s attempts (place the bubbles on the snow to photograph them and shoot them from below if Read More …
Light clouds. . .
Playing with Lightroom. . . More sunflowers