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Journal | A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

...notes on the landscape, wilderness & photography

October, 2008

A defense of romanticism
31 | posted under: Musings · New Images · Wilderness
Upper Twin Lake, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

I've been thinking a bit about the influence of nostalgia and romanticism in landscape photography. While there is certainly an aspect of romanticism that dwells in nostalgia (our good friends over at sohothedog make some interesting points in this regard), ...

Be Still My Soul
30 | posted under: New Images
Michelle Culbertson, Album Cover, Los Angeles

I'm continuing the slow upgrade of the people photography portfolio today. The image is the cover art for the wonderful album Be Still My Soul by Michelle Culbertson. It's available here and just about everywhere else music is available. I ...

Point of View in Photography
28 | posted under: Musings
Steer Roping, Wyoming

I seem to always disagree with Mark Hobson over at The Landscapist, but whatever our philosophical differences may be, and it is often difficult for me to tell if they are differences of semantics or substance, I always find myself ...

Blending Light Sources
27 | posted under: New Images · Photography Techniques
Piano Student, Chicago

This image was shot for DePaul University's admissions material. It is part architectural photo and part environmental portrait. The fun part of this image is dealing with three light sources: the natural light in the windows, the tungsten stage and ...

Slowly fleshing out the People Portfolio
27 | posted under: New Images
Countess | Marriage of Figaro, Chicago

I'll be adding a few photos today in order to get the 'People Photography' portfolio fleshed out enough to add it to the list of portfolios soon. I'll be focusing on the musicians today. Above is the spectacular soprano [Rachel ...

Improvisation
20 | posted under: Musings · New Images
The audience, Chicago

In 1705, according to legend, the 20 year-old Johann Sebastian Bach walked 250 miles to the town of Lübeck to hear the famed organist Dieterich Buxtehude. Buxtehude was well known as a composer, but he was a superstar of organ ...

Hanging Large Canvas Prints
15 | posted under: Photography Techniques
Hanging Canvas Print, Wyoming

The above photo shows an interesting way of dealing with an enormous canvas print. The print was created on an epson 11880 printer and printed on Breathing Color's Chromata White canvas. The print uses the full width of a 60 ...

Panning-Knowing your subject
14 | posted under: Photography Techniques
Steer Roping, Wyoming

If you look for advice on panning techniques for still photography you will find countless images of race cars and cyclists. One of the virtues of cars and bikes when it comes to panning is that they move essentially in ...