Archive of journal entries re "flowers"
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, »
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 »
