10-Apr-2021
Meet Artie
Take pictures where you live..
10-Apr-2021
Shutter speed
Always check your shutter speed - the number one cause of blurry picture is to low of shutter speed - especially with heavy zoom lens. Eh Vey, you think I would have learned that by now
03-Apr-2021
Creating Order out of Chaos?
H.L. Mechen sai, "The function of art is to edit nature and to make it coherent and lovely"
I am not sure this is making order out of Chaos.
Not sure that I truly understand thew work of Kardinsky and Pollack -
Already in 1907, art historian Wilhelm Worringer wrote an essay about "Abstraction and Empathy," which asserted that "the tendency to abstraction is a consequence of people's deep insecurity about the world."
Pollock's work has been the subject of important critical debates. The critic Robert Coates once derided a number of Pollock's works as "mere unorganized explosions of random energy, and therefore meaningless."[57]
24-Mar-2021
In the Moment photographs
While this photograph is not a true landscape, but I have been pondering about the very classical view of landscape photograph where you find a scene and wait for the light and conditions to be perfect. The virtues are being able to visualize the condition ahead of time, patience, and little bit of luck. For me, I am more of photographer in the moment but love finding a scene and quickly make a decision. This is such as situation. I saw the bird on approach. From prior experience, I knew in the calm water there would circles after the landing of the bird.
Take the picture, then work it
Covid and telecommuting - has dramatically impact my life - both good and bad. I hate saying something good when so many families have lost loved members to this terrible, heart breaking pandemic. I wish this never happened.
I have been reading more photography books - so one of the lessons.. you see a picture, take the picture first, then quickly reassess the situation - here my initial aperture was F4, Mac was quiet - not moving, did not need a fast shutter speed - so I changed the aperture to get more depth of field. I sort of new this, but it is good to keep in mind.
Take the picture, then work it if the subject allows you!
Happy Spring!
12-Mar-2021
Break the file of thirds
Leading lines add depth of field and you don't aways have to have a key point of interest following the rule of thirds.
28-Feb-2021
Vertical vs. Horizontal Landscapes
Most of my landscapes are horizontal - some are panoramic, which are usually cropped from horizontal shot. This shot works as vertical. Love the colors - with purple/magenta about 20 minutes prior to sunrise.
19-Feb-2021
You don't always get what you want, but you get what you need
Each dog that joined my pac has had its own unique personality. Mac is like Cino - a spitfire. A puppy who barks when he does not get what he wants. If he finishes a bone, he will bark until Bean voluntarily gives up his bone to him. Bean is patient, usually waits out Macs behavior and then get what he wants. He will vigorously defend his food, but gladly switches bones and happy to observe.
Cino is 90 pounds - so I have always been careful with her interactions with puppies. Mac is by my estimate about 42 pounds and he is ready to take on the full cino. Mac love engaging cino in play. Mac is a tail biter - hence his nickname Mac Attack for sneaking up on dogs at play group biting their tail and running away.
About the photograph
Despite a shutter speed of 1/320 - we did not freeze the action, but does the blur take away from the emotions that the shot conveys. Not sure. Would love it if there was sharpness around Cino face, but a pan was not going to achieve that
Lesson learned - make sure you are shooting at higher shutter speed with the my speed demons and playing chocolate lab and spitfire labradoodle puppy.
February 22 2021 - time back to weekly photo
New day
Watching a sunrise - is inspirational, gives a sense of hope.
Joking, I note that I am searching for the perfect sunrise - a goal that is never to be achieved, but relish the journey but not the final destination. Now is the time for reflection and the next journey.
Persistence and luck were key. The reflection, colors, and composition hopefully convey the joy of bearing witness.
05-JUL-2015
Fireworks July 4 2015 1 of 1.jpg
fireworks from Ella Bailey Park in Magnolia Seattle
08-JUL-2015
Water Sprinkler craziness July 8 2015 1 of 1.jpg
Craziness with the discovery that the backyards has sprinklers
Happy Labs!
17-JUL-2015
spectacular end July 17 2015 1 of 1.jpg