Essay
How we look at something affects what we think about it. We don’t necessarily see truth without some effort; we need to determine if our perspective is correct. As a quick exploration of this, I took these pictures: They were posted on Instagram with the left one visible first with a description that said it…
In this picture of a small flower, I modified the background after taking the picture in order to highlight the flower and to separate it from the grass below it. Mainly, the grass was blurred a lot and made darker. I like the way it worked out – the flower seems to float above the…
Given the nature of spherical photographs as encompassing a complete view of a scene, one result of this is that they are, by nature, interactive. Humans have a limited field of view and trying to present all of a spherical view in a way that can be seen all at once is only possibly by…
This is a moderately close up picture of a rock in the yard down the street. It caught my eye a while ago because of the unusual nature of the holes in the rock. It doesn’t quite look volcanic. Maybe it’s coral? But it doesn’t look like any that I’ve seen before. Perhaps just a…
This simple picture of a leaf is interesting, I think, because of the way the backlighting makes the leaf stand out from the background and gives it a richer, deeper color. There’s something about this sort of lighting, perhaps similar to stained glass windows, that we find visually appealing. It takes two separate elements coming…
After allowing this site to go mostly inactive for the last few years, I hope to renew it with a clearer vision. Long-term, I will probably rebuild it from scratch, but in the meantime, hope to use the current version to work out the vision, do some experiments, and share some photography. As a start,…
A recent photo walk taught me some things about seeing and how we influence what we see by what we are looking for.
For the most part, this blog is mainly focused on my Virtual Reality (VR) photography. When I started it, VR photography was still fairly uncommon. That’s no longer the case as VRs are commonly used in advertising and gaming, Google uses them in Street View, smartphone apps make it easy to take and view them,…