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Beauty: What is it and how important is it?
As a photographer, I look for juried competitions or show entries in order to get my images in front of decision makers. Therefore, I look at the pictures of previous winners and those being in the accepted groups. I have made an observation that is disconcerting to me. In so many situations, the images that [...]
Posted in Awareness, My Photography, Personal
Tagged beauty, definition of beauty, importance of beauty
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Fine Art Photography
More and more, I get asked the question if I manipulate my images. For me it is difficult to answer that. Yes, I do, mostly in camera, and no, I don’t because I am not using Photoshop to create an image out of images I have taken or part of them. My sense is that [...]
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Portfolio Reviews
This past weekend, I participated in the Portfolio Review Bootcamp offered by Center in Santa Fe. It was a very valuable experience in preparation of two events I signed up for. I am now in the process of implementing suggestions and hope to create a powerful portfolio of my photographic mandalas. For those, who don’t [...]
Catching up
It has been quite some time since my last post. As you can see, my blog is now integrated with my web site, which has a completely new look and new galleries. Despite using a template, it still took time to create the new galleries and tweak everything. Here is a quick overview of what [...]
New subject – new learning
On the way back on a recent trip, I stopped by the Grand Canyon. Since it was still February, it was my hope that I could drive the road to Hermits rest with my car instead of the shuttle bus. But the two days before my arrival, they had a blizzard with 14″ of new [...]
Branching out
I am beginning to add other ‘subjects’ to my cloud / sky / mountain ridges collection of photographic mandalas. For the past week, I have been working with trees. I found that my current knowledge transfers only partially to trees. It seems that they have their own, unique “needs”. Not only as a subject in [...]
… and the journey continues
A few days ago, we had an incredible sunset. The undersides of the clouds lit orange-red and their recessed part a beautiful, rich grey. Inspiration asked again: How would this look as a mandala? Because of my intense analysis of the photographic mandalas and the single image I often take before, I am now beginning [...]
Do we notice beauty?
As a photographer, I need to be aware of the beauty around me. But a story I recently got through an email list made me stop and think about this. Do we see/hear beauty if we are not trained for it? Do we see / hear beauty in a place we do not expect it? [...]
Posted in Awareness, Personal
Tagged awareness, beauty in surroundings, personal growth, spiritual
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2010 in review
With the New Year approaching, I have been looking over my photographic journey during the past 12 – 18 months. So much has been happening. In September 2009 I published my web site after having learned enough of Dreamweaver to put together a simple one. I started this blog, which was a daunting idea for [...]
Rule of Thirds
If you look at great images, your eye seems to go to certain items. Usually, they are placed in so called ‘power points’. Imagine a tic-tac-toe grid, dividing the image both horizontally and vertically into thirds. he ‘power points’ are the four places where the lines intersect. You do not want to place the horizon [...]
Posted in My Photography, Taking Images
Tagged 'rule, 'rule of thirds', composition, photography
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