I've been looking at some incredible food photography on flickr lately. I love to cook, and am doing a lot of BBQ'ing this summer as our kitchen gets remodeled, but many of my attempts at food photography have been only so-so. So, I'm going to try to get better at it. A few quick rules [...]
A self portrait taken with my new Verizon Dare.
A small Paper Wasp nest came to life under our stairs recently. Probably about 20 wasps live there (for the moment), and I was able to get my camera right in their little faces early this morning while it was cold and they were basically inactive. In this shot, the wasp on the left has [...]
Me, at the age of one and a half. This was taken in March or April of that year, so it is NOT a Halloween costume. Other than my lingering fear of clowns (coulorphobia), this event has been erased from my memory. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.
During my year of intense photography I was only questioned five times. After the first time I learned what my rights were and now carry around this sheet in my camera bag. Other good resources: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm http://www.kantor.com/useful/Legal-Rights-of-Photographers.pdf Here are the five situations, how I did react, how I would have reacted if I knew my [...]
We were eating dinner outside the other evening and were raided by about a dozen yellowjackets. While shooing them away I shot a few pictures of one of them chewing off a bit of meat and carrying it away. I decided to try and get better pictures, so today I set out a chunk of [...]
This was incredibly hard to do. Sarah asked me what my top ten pictures were and I felt compelled to figure it out. But here they are in chronological order: Bunny Goes Flying (7/18/07) - This is probably my favorite picture of them all. I was sitting in the copilot seat of a friend's Bonanza [...]
I just dug through Lightroom and pulled out some numbers that I thought were interesting about my last twelve months of photography. From 7/9/07 through 7/8/08 I shot over 22,000 photos (averaging about 57 a day). I didn't track my time (thank God), but a conservative estimate would be that I averaged at least a [...]
One year ago today I took on a "Picture A Day" project with the goal of shooting 366 (leap year!) reasonably good pictures and posting them for the world to see. On Monday I finished that project, and never missed a shot. First to last... Along the way I acquired new equipment, flew a kite [...]
It's been a few days over a month (34 days to be exact) since I started my "A Picture A Day" blog. My overriding goal is to become a better photographer, and I'm definitely on the path to get there. Here's what I've done and learned so far: The pressure of having to deliver a [...]