I want to talk about lace, fancy and frilly lace. The kind used in wedding gowns, fancy dresses, underwear. It can be made on computerized textile machines that can replicate the same pattern with great consistency. Then there is lace made on 19th-century machines which can produce extremely complex … [Read more...]
Plants Grown and In the Wild
A fine line divides for most people the plants they like and those they hate. This separation stems mainly from whether we wanted to plant them or they grew on their own, or unwanted weeds. That said, both plants we grow or nature decides to grow them have many similar qualities such as elegance, … [Read more...]
Fair Weather Photographer
Yes, I am a fair weather photographer. I don't like to go out in the cold or rainy days, but when the air is dry and the temperature is comfortable I enjoy my walks, short ones as you all know by now! Today was one of those days and I have been waiting to photograph the flowering trees, dogwood, … [Read more...]
Springtime on Spring Green Road
Springtime has arrived on Spring Green Rd. A short walk, as usual, rewarded me with plenty of buds, opening flowers, blue skies, and warm weather. All the photographs are taken on Spring Green Road on the other side of the Narragansett Parkway. That is the start of the area known as the Governor … [Read more...]
A Low-Cost Highly Functional Panorama Head
Stitching images sequentially photographed has been around for quite a while and the software that can assemble the images have come a long way from the early days of panoramic photography. I enjoy creating wide-view images using single or multi-row stitching as the vista covered takes a different … [Read more...]
A New Infrared Camera: Canon M5
I have been doing infrared photography for quite a while now which started with a Canon G7 point-and-shoot converted for this purpose. With that camera, I took many photographs from the window of commercial airplanes as I flew from Providence to Salt Lake City over a course of four years. … [Read more...]
Infrared Channel Swapping in Lightroom
Lightroom has had some weaknesses when it came to processing infrared images like channel swap and white balance. The primary problem has been and continues to be the range of white balance options not being wide enough into the blue end of the slider. That has had a fix for quite some time which I … [Read more...]
Jack Pashkowsky – Celebrity Photographer
There are many stories that go untold, unheard, and unappreciated. Others, we accidentally stumble upon as I did on Jack Pashkowsky. He photographed Hollywood celebrities with the intimacy you do not find in many similar photographs you know. As I was looking for something to watch on Kanopy.com, I … [Read more...]
Trees Are Almost Budding
Winter kept us inside, especially me. Combined with cold allergies, my persistent cough prevented me from taking even short walks. Today, after supper, I pulled up enough courage to take the first walk in a long time. It was not especially warm, but 42° F was better than zero or even below zero we … [Read more...]
Still Life Photography
A while back, I had another roundtable discussion at the Film Photographers Association. This time the subject was Still Life Photography. It is a genre we all take for granted and include in it a great variety of photographs. I would like to explore the origins of still life in painting, how it … [Read more...]