Last May I participated (without being there physically, since I was in France during the show), in Northeast Minneapolis Art Association’s spring Art-a-Whirl as a member of the Twin Cities Photography Group. Apparently continual downpours and road construction outside the venue kept most people away. With little traffic, it wasn’t a very successful show for Read More …
There are groups of people, including a friend of mine, who occasionally hide out and spin steel wool all night. (You know who you are, Jim!) This has made me extremely jealous for a long time because it looks so incredibly cool. What is steel wool spinning? At its most basic, steel wool spinning involves Read More …
The Minnesota Street Rod Association’s Back to the 50s festival (it seems like so much more than a car show), is one of the largest vintage car shows in the world. That means the options for photography are almost overwhelming. So, sometimes, focusing on the details is in order. Fortunately there is a seemingly never-ending Read More …
Minnesota’s North Shore is gorgeous in the spring, with plenty of spring flowers and rushing water. Unfortunately, I never seem to get up there in spring to enjoy those things! This year I decided to make it happen, so I signed up for a North Shore photography workshop with Don Tredinnick and Peter Berman of Read More …
Every spring the Back to the 50s car show brings old vehicles of every type (and every level of restoration) to the State Fair grounds for a weekend that looks back at the golden age of the automobile and beyond. In fitting with that theme, I took a few of my (too) many images and Read More …
Earlier this winter I took a photo class at the Minnesota Zoo. Zoos are both easy and difficult places to practice “wildlife” photography. On one hand, the animals are always nearby and have limited options for completely escaping your view indefinitely (if you are willing to wait long enough, you WILL see them, unlike on Read More …
Modified a bit in Lightroom and Paintshop Pro.
Last winter people starting posting all sorts of fascinating images of frozen bubbles, so (of course) I had to try it myself. I looked online and found a bunch of recipes for bubble solution which we used as a basis for our own solution of dish soap, Karo syrup, and water. Then we went out Read More …
In my last couple posts on my zoom burst experiments , I was focused on what I could do in the field to create interesting effects. But once I started editing my shots in Lightroom, I realized how much of a difference post-processing could make. Even simple, relatively minor changes, have an impact. For example, Read More …
Playing with Lightroom. . . More sunflowers
I’ve been trying for some time to find a source of drawings to use on the index pages for my travel blog. Unfortunately I’m not a very good artist and I wasn’t finding anything online that I liked, so I wondered if I could transform my own images into something that would give me the Read More …
