Regular visitors of my blog and/or Flickr stream may have noticed that I seem to be taking a lot of pictures of things found around the house, while shopping, etc. I like to think I’ve just been following Chase Jarvis’ admonition that there are at least 10 great shots within 10m of you right now. [...]
Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and thank you for your support. I started this blog less than 3 weeks ago and I have already had over 1,100 views! I hope everyone is enjoying this site and getting something out of it. I’ve got some new topics I’m working on that I’ll be [...]
Seems Santa found us at our new home in Auburn. Christmas officially* kicked off for us at 6:00AM. We’re heading up to Birmingham in an hour or so to continue the festivities.
Hope everyone is having a great Christmas!
*Hattie (the 5 year old) was in our room at 1:10AM shouting “Santa came and he brought me [...]
With Christmas just a couple of days away there is no doubt that many of you have been enjoying taking artistic photos of your Christmas tree and other Holiday decor. All those colorful and tiny lights make perfect bokeh fodder. And highly processed detail shots like this are also fun.
Problem is, many of us (present [...]
Following my experiment with shooting the Christmas tree lights reflecting in the front lens element of my 50mm f/1.7 I had the thought that it might be interesting to turn the lens around and see what things looked like through the lens. Again, this was in the interest of trying to find new ways to [...]
