My host from the Charlie Waite workshop last year was going to be away for a couple of months, and so Jill and I arranged to look after her house, and garden, for a couple of weeks in May.
Archive of journal entries re "Photographing"
I actually like making architectural photographs, exploring the lines and curves.And it can be interesting to question how things are normally seen. Anyone can tilt their head and gain a different perspective on a structure, but only the camera will really remember it.
It’s a while since we’ve done any traveling and the weather’s been much of a muchness so it’s been difficult to get into exploring any of my usual scenes around town.
And then I had the thought, on my normal daily walk into downtown, take my camera with me, set »
Last September I attended a workshop on Whidbey Island in Washington State led by Charlie Waite and Keron Psillas thanks to the Pacific Northwest Art School. I had long known of Charlie and even had a few books by him, so I jumped at the chance »
I haven’t been to the fitness center (it had gotten to the point where getting there and back was taking up too much of the day and I can exercise other ways) and anyway we used to go a different way when I went regularly. Jill has kept going »
I feel like we never see mist locally. It might just be that I grew up with real, dense fogs. Or that I’m not normally one for getting out of bed early, and so the mist has always gone already by the time I look out the window.
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I get out of the house most afternoons, typically mid to late afternoon, but this day being extra late collided with the short days after the winter solstice. And although I went for a walk into town, I had my camera with me, and on the »
One of the things I like about my camera is that almost all the controls/settings, certainly the ones I use most, are all external knobs and dials rather than being buried in menus. Before heading home from Burr Oak State Park we went for another hike, the opposite direction »
We were in S Ohio to visit the sister of one of Jill’s college friends and her husband and staying at the lodge in the Burr Oak State Park. We had gone for a short walk after we arrived and the next morning I went to see if the »
Another week, another Wednesday, another warming, and another walk. We decided to stop at the Dexter-Huron Metropark. The trails had not been cleared of snow, but it was walkable, although it meant it was a a little slower for Jill.
For the most part, the trail was not »