Today’s post is number 100. Hopefully they’ve been enjoyable for you. It’s been an experience for me as I return to a part of what began my career many years ago. It’s been quite some time since I wrote a weekly newspaper column about photography. One day I’ll have to go into the fading print [...]
I broke my Good Friday fast with dinner at my daughter’s house with her husband and four kids. I know that’s not really important for you to know but it does point out a small dilemma in the afternoon. I carried very little camera gear. My iPhone and a Canon G9. After all, it was [...]
I’m beginning to understand my affection for the iPhone camera. I was asked to shoot a few photos for my granddaughter’s middle school track team for an end-of-year DVD compilation. The team and school have no money for a photography budget so, as a good grandparent with a camera, I lend a hand. I don’t [...]
Before I left the park Sunday I’d already uploaded to The Best Camera a photo of my grandson enjoying himself for the first time this year at Planet Westerville. In my Nikon D300 was a near duplicate image of the seven-year-old struggling to get high enough to leap into the air at his greatest apogee [...]
“Your pizza will be ready in 25 minutes.” Just enough time to find a feature. My daily hunt for another photo to add to the My Final Photo collection is the most challenging aspect of my daily life.
Never stare into the sun! Unless you’ve a camera in your hand, it’s early in the morning, the rowing crews are beginning the day-long series of races and you only have an hour to work before the next shoot. Again, it’s time to break the rules. Go ahead. Stare into the sun. Only this time [...]
Not every portrait should happen just after a trip to the barber or just after you’ve put on fresh clothes. These two portraits are from a series I did of family and kids in the neighborhood. After watching the kids play on a warm summer day I gathered them in front of a white background [...]
I’m always looking into Oprah’s eyes. Well, at least one day a month I look into her eyes. I lean in close, pulling her to me so I can see into her eyes without distraction. I focus close examining her pupils, looking for signs that will show me some of her secrets. Looking for any [...]
This is not the photo I intended for an afternoon shoot. It’s better. The plan was a quick stock shoot of a young model dressed as a cowboy in a field of fresh cut and rolled hay and straw. We had four shirt changes, some gloves and a few other accouterments to make some style [...]
Somewhere in the stack of mounted black and white prints of my youth stored in a dry cool place in my house is a set of photos that delineate the day I remember becoming a photographer. The photos are certainly not the first ones I printed and mounted. And, they probably aren’t the best from [...]
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