I’m experimenting with different color schemes. Mainly between white and black. Not fancy palettes, just something plain. I think there’s enough variety in the media that I would rather keep the site itself fairly clean. However, I’m not yet settled on whether I prefer light or dark. I’ll be bouncing back and forth, so let…
This simple picture of a forest boardwalk path is part of my latest photo portal project. When opened in a separate page, this picture links into a 360 panorama that was taken at the same position of the picture itself. While the picture is processed for artistic effect, the panorama represents what would have been…
Every photograph tells a story—but it also leaves something out. That’s just how photography works. Every picture is framed, which means it only shows part of the scene. The photographer decides what to include, and what to leave outside the edges. And when you look at that photo, you’re seeing the world through their eyes….
This waterfall picture is a combination of two different pictures. One was taken with a short shutter speed, so that the water appears frozen. The other was taken with a long shutter speed, so that the water appears as a silky flow. There are people who prefer both; there is no “right” way to photograph…
This photograph of a flower was taken in a local rose garden. Like many such photos, it’s been enhanced to show aspects of the flower that, although they were subtle, still jumped out at me enough to want to share them. The very subtle colors of an ostensibly white flower, the overall form and symmetry,…
An earlier post presented the idea of “Local Wonder” as a starting point for a sort of vision for my photography. In that case, the focus was on looking closely at things to see their wonderful aspects. In addition to giving a focus for some photography, the hope is that it could also teach me…
This is an updated version of a previous post of the interior of United Presbyterian Church in Albany, Oregon.
When photographs are printed and hung on a wall, they often have a frame and a matte. Sometimes though, photographers, like other visual artists, choose to display their pictures without a frame – so-called “frameless” mounting. The picture here is an example of that. This example does have a solid side, but sometimes frameless mounts…
This is a picture of a dandelion, taken along a small lake at a local state park. I’m not sure why it caught my eye. After all, it’s just a weed, something that is generally not thought about much except as a problem, or perhaps occasionally for making tea. For whatever reason, I took this…
When I first published this picture, I described it as “The process of change”. Very simply, it was because that captured the process of the leaves changing from green to red. At the time, I didn’t have any particular ideas of what it illustrated about change, but I think one can see various possibilities in…