We have a large chrysanthemum plant sitting on the back deck. It must be one of the biggest, of its type, that I can recall seeing. I have been helping my friend Patrick getting a few lenses repaired and so I have more than the usual number sitting around home at the moment, »
Sketches from my photographic life
I have completed the process, with Jill’s help, of selecting and sequencing photographs for a new calendar, for 2015. This time it is a collection of photographs of flowers, some of them a few years old, but some only a few weeks. Now I can move on to production, getting the images into InDesign and off to the printer for reproduction and collation (they do the heavy work of creating the stands and adding the spiral). »
The past few days we’ve been on the west side of the state, staying at the family farmhouse of a friend, not far from Benton Harbor. The first evening there, I went for a walk along the lane, looking for photographs. I was happily working on scenes from a »
I think I’ve been struggling a long time with focus: where to place it in the scene; how much of the scene to get in focus. Now I realize I might have given more weight to concerns over diffraction than it warrants and not enough to what I am »
A couple of weeks back, I decided to take a hike through town, and beyond, with the goal of enjoying a nice winter’s day, and maybe getting to make some photographs. I was thinking I would go to the Broadway Bridge and head East along the Huron River, past »
I have started reading Landscape Beyond: A Journey into Photography by David Ward. I’ve had it a few years now, but seemingly never read it when it arrived – I guess this is the problem with buying books online; by the time they’ve arrived, the original impetus might be »
This is my first picture of the year. For the second time in less than a week, we were a getting a major snow storm. I was out at about 8pm doing my last shovel of the day, before leaving the snow to its own devices overnight
»This week we have been enjoying Christmas with Jill’s folks in Palo Alto. Yesterday we headed up to Sebastopol to catch up with a couple of her friends. On the way we stopped at the de Young Museum (part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco). The highlight was the David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition, »
