We have a huge magnolia tree in our front yard. It keeps getting bigger, but as it ages, bits keep dropping off – it seems particularly at risk during ice storms. It’s actually a little late this year, but each spring we get an amazing display of blossoms. And »
There are a variety of ways to take the photographs to use to make a composite, panorama photograph, and a variety of software options to stitch the frames together and deal with any problems; plus there are a number of ratios you can crop the result to, or you »
It was late by the time I got home, so this wasn’t the first thing I saw, and this is the back garden anyway, so obviously not the very first thing to see. Next morning, thinking of breakfast, there is no escape.
But then I waited a few weeks to actually take this photo as »
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 »
17 days after it fell, the snow is still on the ground. The Sedum is still there, though the old flowers have lost their white hats. The paths that the cats and other critters follow, and us on the way to the compost pile, are pretty ingrained.
I didn’t take any photos in January, apart from a token gesture at the start of the month.
Throughout the month, I kept looking out the back window, and seeing possible photos. In particular I would look at this group of Sedum sitting, not that you can tell with »
I have started reading Landscape Beyond: A Journey into Photography by David Ward. I’ve had it a few years now, but seemingly never read it when it arrived – I guess this is the problem with buying books online; by the time they’ve arrived, the original impetus might be »
We have a large, old magnolia tree in our front yard. It is in full bloom. This year feels unusual, compared to recent years, in that there are no storms coming through, blowing all the blossoms off almost as soon as they appear. Of course, we did lose yet »
If you ever visit a forum where the subject is post-processing and/or printing, you will have seen a subject line like “my prints are too dark” many times; alternatively expressed as ‘my print doesn’t match my screen’. So many times in fact, that the experts now will instantly swoop »
