The temperature has been below freezing most mornings with the highs for the day rarely getting much more. Hoover is mostly frozen in a thin layer of ice too thin for fishing. Below the dam the water is a little warmer after it’s trip through the pipe and begins to freeze again south of the [...]
Someone called me to task several days ago for using a photo of fresh cherry tomatoes for a posting in the middle of a winter snow storm. I apologize. If it makes you any happier, today’s photo is from a winter storm. I’ll even give you two to make up for the indiscretion. Not sure [...]
Dissecting yesterday’s grocery store vegetable display photo was a fun task. It reminded me of another vegetable photo with repeating patterns, varied colors and contrasts and a pixelated design. Mary Bridgman operates an organic and traditional farm in central Ohio. Every year as the first tomatoes ripen in the spring she appears at the Uptown [...]
I don’t know who at Kroger is assigned the duties of arranging the fruits and vegetables in their respective sales bins. I’m not even sure if whoever it is isn’t working from a graphic designer’s and marketing director’s floor plan or diagram to best show off the variety of produce available. I’ve pretended to be [...]
It’s been a very busy day of doing everything but little time for actually taking pictures I can tell you about. I’d put together this post last night and filed it away as a draft with plans to finish and post earlier this morning. That idea fell apart at sunrise with a phone call for [...]
My mission for the day was simple. I visited a local gallery to drop off my portfolio for possible inclusion in a proposed show. The gallery, in a local mall, rarely included photography in its offerings because few people purchased higher priced prints and less inexpensive prints weren’t financially beneficial to the photographer or the [...]
The best trait of a wide-angle lens, in this case the Nikon 14-24mm f2.8, isn’t how wide a view the lens takes in. There are times when necessity requires a wider view such as when your back is literally against the wall or your subject is very close. Sometimes the wide-angle works to include more [...]
My visits to the Brisbane Oak, my name for it, are frequent. Sometimes as I drive bay on my way to a photo shoot or as I go to the grocery store or an office. It is one of the foreground objects I talked about yesterday. I can’t count the number of people who’ve walked [...]
Bugs on flowers is a common subject for many photographers, especially ones with point-and-shoot cameras. I’ve often told people how much I like by Canon G9 for its portability, resolution and capability to adjust exposure. It’s also nice to have a camera that, with the push of a button, becomes a closeup lens camera. That [...]
The selective use of foreground objects as framing devices can quickly change an ordinary snapshot into an effective, storytelling photo. One of local service clubs organized a field of flags to commemorate veterans and active duty service men and women as part of the city’s Veteran’s Day celebration. The flags, purchased and dedicated by friend [...]
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