At the beginning of 2019, there was very serious concern about Apple’s continued commitment to photographers’ needs, and Intel was doing their best to frighten even PC-using photographers with generation after generation of essentially unchanged chips at increasing prices. There were increasing questions that Moore’s Law had stalled, that the reason we weren’t seeing different [Read More]
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Panoramic Photography: The Psychological Power
Panoramic photography can create photographs with a psychological quality no other format can. Satisfy the logical side of our brain that we are seeing something realistic but overlay an unrealistic artistic layer and we create a mental dilemma about what exactly are we looking at. A natural field of view, corrected perspective, strong three-dimensional qualities [Read More]
Street Photography: Where does the street begin and end? Part 1.
The history of the pathway, the street, and the scenes they often lead to is a storied one. The trail is not so much a physical thing as an ephemeral one, a place in our collective imagination. Picture if you will, the most populated space in your town or city, it’s energy, its culture. Picture [Read More]
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Visualization and The Evolution of Conscious Awareness
"No man steps in the same river twice, for its not the same river and he's not the same man". Heraclitus Is there a more familiar and oft quoted phrase in landscape photography than Ansel Adams famous: … [Read More...]
An iMac Pro in a backpack! Two weeks with the 16” MacBook Pro
What fits in a small backpack, yet edits photos like a desktop workstation? A 16” MacBook Pro. Introduction: An Apple beauty shot of the new MacBook Pro The long-term review MacBook Pro has been here for … [Read More...]
Blue Hour in a Zen Meditation Forest
Blue Hour in a Zen meditation forest with camera in hand at the base of Mt. Fuji, and I was awoken out of my slumber by the din of closing tripods behind me just as the magical blue hour rung its bell and the enchanting … [Read More...]
Understanding Focus
I often get asked for help on various matters photographic, and noticed a common denominator caused by confusion sewn when people try to teach less acquainted students about DOF – Depth of Field. Everything goes … [Read More...]
2020 Visions – A Year in Focus
Before our summary for the year that was, here's a forecast and declaration for where we are heading. Specific to the camera world, I see a very concentrated and continued shift towards niche markets. The … [Read More...]
May the light fill your Holidays
The night before Christmas, I went for a walk with my daughter Ocean Rose along the boardwalk by the winter-wind swept beach where we live. This year our neighborhood covered a selection of trees along the beach in … [Read More...]
A sturdy base and some light – part 2 of a series of short reviews.
I’m not sure the huge Robus RC-5570 was ever meant to be set up to its full height inside a small apartment? The hot shoe on that Z6 is very close to seven feet above the ground! The water bottle appears in a number of … [Read More...]
Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey Through America’s National Parks
In trying to review this newly expanded version, It has been hard to know where to begin in covering Qt Luong's multiple award-winning Treasured Lands. This singular work has had many words said about it already. Some of … [Read More...]
Kristie Muller: Penetrating the Veil of Now
Kristie Muller is an Artist and Photographer previously based in Toronto. She was born in Calgary, and recently relocated to Vancouver, British Colombia. I briefly met Kristie through mutual friends. I was struck by … [Read More...]
Michael Reichmann’s limited edition “A 20 Year Photography Retrospective” book offer
A 400 Page Large Format Book by the late Michael Reichmann You can order here, just in time for the holidays: https://luminous-landscape.store/ I am pleased to announce our new offer of my father Michael … [Read More...]
A PowerBook Once Again?
A PowerBook/MacBook Pro family portrait (mostly Apple marketing images) – 1991 to 2019 28 years ago this fall, Apple released the first Mac PowerBooks. They weren’t actually the first portable Macs. Outbound Systems … [Read More...]
Travels to Costa Rica: A Photo Adventure
Costa Rica is truly a photographer’s dream come true – whether it’s the beaches, volcanoes, rivers, jungles or the exotic flora & fauna – Costa Rica has it all with some of the friendliest people I've ever met. There … [Read More...]
Sean Tamblyn follow-up: The Final Shuttle Launches
https://luminous-landscape.wistia.com/medias/potwnnwg5u In this follow-up to our piece on Sean Tamblyn's Georgian Bay photography, we take a look at the opportunity Sean had to document the end of NASA's space … [Read More...]
Photographic Minimalism to the Max! The work of Marcus Cederberg
The nexus where the photographic, the photograph, design, and art meet, might look something like Marcus Cederberg's images. I spent much of my youth traveling to see my grandparents in West Palm Beach, Florida. The … [Read More...]
