Simple Clicks – Afternoon Light
Just a few clicks from Sunday afternoon’s hike at Lackawanna State Park. It was one of those perfect afternoons – warm, slight breeze, not too many people. I’ve always found retreating into the woods therapeutic, a good way to clear my head and find some balance when it’s lacking. Making images works into that easily, especially [...]
m4:3 Panoramas
Took a moment during last Saturday morning’s outing to shoot several series of images for panoramas up at Fords Pond. This was my first opportunity shooting a pano series with the E-M5, and to be honest, it was brought on as much by the dearth of wildlife at the park as by the desire to [...]
Light and Shadow
I don’t believe I have a particular “style” of photography that defines my work. There are, however, several elements I enjoy experimenting with. One of those is the use of light and shadow. I’m always fascinated by the interplay of a strong light in an otherwise dark image. I most frequently see these on my [...]
First astro of the year
Keystone College’s observatory program has re-started for the year – another sure sign of spring. It took a couple of tries, but I was finally able to make it up there for their Wednesday night session last week. The programs are really wonderful, each beginning with a 30 minute astronomical lecture, and followed by at [...]
My thoughts on HDR
“] HDR photography has been around for several years now. In fact, I can remember when the rage started and everyone ran out and started shooting multiple bracketed exposures and posting garish, alien-looking landscapes complete with color artifacts and halos. This, naturally, sparked the expected controversy between the purists and the experimentalists, which continues to [...]
How I (really) use my camera
Over the past week, a number of different ideas, sources, and comments have been rattling around my brain before finally coalescing into a single, hopefully coherent thought. This is a little long-winded, so bear with me. I’ve been thinking about how I use my camera. How I really use it, the features and settings that [...]
Lost my mind
Today is Parade Day in Scranton. If you don’t know what that means – and honestly, if you’re not from the greater Northeastern PA area, why would you? – it’s the most sacred and holy day of the year, when the city of Scranton swells with an influx of revelers all here for the annual [...]
Odds and Ends
“Beware the ides of March!” Okay, so that advice didn’t do Caesar much good, but I think it’s because the advice was too limiting. In my experience, it would be more accurate to say simply, “Beware of March.” As months go, it’s my least favorite, that last push of winter, when the landscape is all [...]
“And feather canyons everywhere…”
So go the lyrics of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now. I’ve always been fascinated by clouds and their permutations, imagining in them mythical beasts and everyday objects alike. With the dearth of snow this winter, the February landscape seems drab and dreary, so I turned to a skyscape for inspiration. I visited nearby Fords Pond [...]
Mid-winter (?) Funk
It’s mid-winter, or at least it would be if this wasn’t what I’ve termed “The Winter that Never Was.” It’s been several months of bipolar now-it’s-warm, now-it’s-not, with almost no snow. And now we’re mid-February and headed for the doldrums of March, and both inspiration and motivation are fleeting. I’ve been doing far too little [...]
