If you look closely, the typical snapshot lacks a foreground. It is amazing, how long it took me to get over that mode of shooting. (Any time there was a foreground, it was more accident than intention) Yet it makes such a difference. Besides the S-Curve, you can lead the eye through the image using…
Time flies
I can’t believe how much time has past since my last entry. Mid August, I visited some friends in California, among them one along the coast. We went out for a whale watching tour. Here are some images. There was some sun just along the beach, otherwise, it was solid overcast. Never the less, we…
Learning
Last week, I participated in a workshop taught by Eddie Soloway at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. It was an incredibly intense week with early starts (get up at 3am to be at a location for sunrise) and late nights. On the last evening, we got to see images from all 6 workshops that were…
Mandalas
I have been working more with the multiple exposures in camera. The 2 images with the daisies intrigued me and the reaction of people to them was very positive. So I took many more images and am learning how the placement of the flowers in Nature impacts the final image. I tried to figure out…
Multiple Exposures
As I said in my last blog, I am learning multiple exposures. This is not that easy and I am beginning to think that the 2 great shots were the proverbial beginner’s luck. There is so much that plays into it. If I want just the stippled effect that many exposures over each other give,…
Learning new things
There is a reason to my absence for the past few weeks. I have been busy learning about Social Media (Facebook and LinkedIn) I had attended a short introductory workshop with the intention to find out about ways I could get the word out about my book, “Essence:contemplations in image and word”. BE careful what…
“Essence: contemplations in image and word”
It is heartwarming to receive such great feedback on my book Essence: contemplations in image and word. It is not just the comments I have been getting by e-mail, but also the fact that one person ordered another copy after getting the first one. I wanted to share some of the images that are in…
Finally
When visiting my family in Germany, I got ‘caught in the ash’. A week later, I finally made it out. It was an adventure as I had not brought my calendar with me. I had to remember all the appointments I had made and cancel them, to ask a friend to pick up packages I…
Kalispell: Raptor shoot
Triple D Game Farm works together with a local rescue center. This provides some income for it. The raptors we got to shoot are all birds that can no longer be released into the wild. Therefore they become ambassadors.
Kalispell: Horse Round-Up
Here are some images from the 2 horse round-up sessions I particiapted in. The first one sounded great: 50 horses coming by in waves. Only it did not quite happen that way. The horses came mostly in groups that were large or in a line. In addition, it was heavy overcast with low clouds. This…