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...]
A Review Of My LensCulture Submission
A while back, I submitted six photographs from my Passing Through Anatolia series to a contest on LensCulture mainly to support their work. Another incentive was a review of the submission if I submitted 5+ images, and I did want a real review as they promised. A week or two ago, I received a note … [Read more...]
The Pleasant Sides of Istanbul
As much as I wrote about the discomfort and stress I get in Istanbul, I should also mention the comfort zones, the pleasures even if they may be in the midst of the dreaded construction everywhere. There are still pleasant sides of Istanbul and you can find them. Around the house, we always had a … [Read more...]
Providence, High and Low
Although I have at least one more post coming about our trip to Turkey in October, I wanted to switch gears a little and talk a little about Providence, Rhode Island. It is a tidy, interesting, livable, historical city that has retained its texture and character. Evren visited with us for three … [Read more...]