This evening, I would like to share with you an image that demonstrates the benefit of spotting the potential of a scene. I first saw this scene about a year ago on my way to one of my clients. Every time I've passed by, the lighting conditions weren't anything special. Today, while running errands, it began to snow pretty heavily. Since I had some ( Read more... )

This evening, I would like to share with you the first of what I hope becomes a lengthy and insteresting photo series entitled Stump Art. Usually when I encounter a stump, it is a plain object: an empty husk left behind from the harvest of man. Lately, however, when I encounter stumps in a selective cutting area where other trees have been left to ( Read more... )

This evening, I would like to share with you an image from back in February. This was taken at an ice fishing derby at Alton Bay, NH. This was when I first purchased my camera, so I was taking pictures of everything in hopes of learning the ins and outs of my camera. My thanks to crabbyolbastard for identifying the dog in this shot as a Great Pyrenees.

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This evening, I would like to share with you an image of a scene I encounter every night. The other night, I was walking through the garage to the stairs leading to my room when I stopped and really looked at the way the light played upon the varied shapes of the tools and trappings of the garage. I simply had to take a few shots.

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This evening, I would like to share with you the next in my series about leaves. To be honest, it wasn't really my intention to create a themed series. Usually I just shoot whatever catches my eye. Lately, my eyes are just instantly drawn to backlit autumn leaves. These leaves, apart from being backlit, also had the interesting quality of being ( Read more... )

This evening, I would like to share with you another image from Hanson Pines. This was a set of fall leaves caught in the evening light. When I first saw this configuration of leaves, I immediately likened them to the shape of pinwheels.

- Ω -The part of this photo I am least pleased with is the tonal contrast between foreground and background. I ( Read more... )

This evening, I would like to share with you this image before I post it to texture. This was a leaf caught in the underside of a metal walkway. There were others, and I took several shots trying to arrange them in some pleasing way. None of them quite matched the simplicity of this shot. One of the artistic principles I remember and utilize most ( Read more... )

Today, I'd like to share with you this photo from a sunday drive Stacey and I took yesterday. The weather was fairly dismal, but I had the increasingly rare opportunity to be the passenger of the car with my camera at the ready. This shot was taken on one of the highways along the way to our destination.

- Ω -I had to use a fairly fast shutter ( Read more... )

I'd like to share with those of you who are interested, a spliced movie poster I whipped up. For those of you who haven't seen the Mystery Science Theater 3000 mockery of the Joe Don Baker movie Mitchell, I would highly recommend it. This poster is something of a political satire, likening the booze-soaked antics of Mitchell to that of the man in ( Read more... )

This evening, I'd like to share with you a scene from my own backyard. This waterfall is from a stream that runs through the woods nearby.

- Ω -This shot was among the first series of shots I took in RAW format. The sharpening, exposure, and color temperature control available in RAW format are far superior to the color correction available for ( Read more... )