Serious photo editing is now possible on a laptop – lousy iPhone shot of the 16” MacBook Pro editing an image in DxO while managing the catalog in Lightroom (it was also running Word, Safari, Mail and Acrobat at the time.). At the beginning of 2019, there was very serious concern about Apple’s continued commitment to photographers’ needs, and Intel was doing their … [Read more...]
Panoramic Photography: The Psychological Power
Photo: The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain 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 … [Read more...]
Street Photography: Where does the street begin and end? Part 1.
Santiago Chile 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 the roads leading there, the square or congregating spaces. Where … [Read more...]
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: "previsualization". I always get a chuckle when I see this term as it makes me think of "confusing chaos", somewhat of an obvious redundancy. My guess is that simply … [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 party of vibrant colors had begun. Quickly, I halted the gear being put away and illuminated the pathway with my headlamp extending the session for 15 minutes … [Read more...]
