For a while there it seemed the idea of the Huron River Project was having the desired effect and I was making regular outings to photograph the river. And this probably contributed to us going to England and »
Sketches from my photographic life
I’ve done all the editing I can do on the photograph files, redone the InDesign files (multiple times, there were debates about text size as well as positioning and type face) and imported all image files and produced the PDFs. Phew. »
Over the summer I’ve been reading various books about the explorations of David Hockney, mostly expressed in the form of interviews. A lot of what he has gotten into is around the idea of perspective, of how the 3-D world is translated into 2-D. He talks »
We did make an attempt to get the calendar ready even earlier this year and started work back in August. Back then, there was still a question as to whether to do another calendar using photographs of flowers, or to make use of the extra photographs of Yorkshire from our trip there in May. »
We were able to spend last Sunday in San Francisco, going first to see the Luminous Worlds: British Works on Paper 1760–1900 exhibition at the Legion of Honor, and then the J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free exhibition at the de Young.
I’m »
More accurately, my saviors are in Threshfield. Alan had to go to work, and I wanted to keep photographing in Yorkshire, so I looked for somewhere not too far beyond Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, stuck a pin in the (Google) map and decided on Grassington.
So good, we went there twice!
Saltaire is a model village (and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site) built by Sir Titus Salt on the River Aire to house his workers at his woolen textile mill, Salts Mill. When it was built in 1853 the mill »
Friends told us about a textile exhibition at the Ohio State University art museum in Columbus, OH and one of them was going to be back there last week, so we went down to take a look and hang out for a night; staying in a fabulous »
This may just be the result of another long, cold winter, but I can see that I have not been out with my camera very much, and I have the sense that I am not because nothing is calling to me to be photographed. Something I read about regularly »