We don’t need all the widgets in our cameras’ menus. We think we need them because camera manufacturers want us to think we need them. We don’t.
Light and Lights
MEDIA WAR STORIES: BEHIND THE SCENES STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF MEDIA – Episode 3
In this episode, Garry meets his hero, John Wayne and Lucille Ball. Tom tells the story of the lengths the “suits” will go to make sure that Dan Rather’s IFB would never accidentally get unplugged! Topic of the week? Suits…. Read More ›
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LIGHT
CBWC: Lighting of Any Kind Light from candles, but mostly from the sun. I don’t like artificial light, so for me, almost all the light in my pictures is natural.
A SHARE FOR JANUARY 10, 2023
Share Your World 9th January 2023 I thought today was Martin Luther King Day because since I retired, I have no idea what day of the week or month it is. Regardless, MLK day is more a “school” than a work… Read More ›
HOLIDAY NIGHTS, HOLIDAY LIGHTS
CMMC – December Pick a Topic from my Photo Lights, a cute penguin, holiday lights and holiday nights …
ONE TO THREE: TEXTURES AND VARIATIONS OF MORNING LIGHT
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge – September 2022 All of these were taken on my Olympus Pen F using a 12-200mm Olympus Telephoto lens. Time? Just about 6 am. When? August 28, 2022. This is the best standard original plus its… Read More ›
LAST ON THE CARD
Last on the card – August 2022 Well. For once I had a “last” on all three cameras I’m currently using. This first one is one of the rare ones that comes out exactly the way you want it and wouldn’t… Read More ›
BRIGHT CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
A Photo a Week Challenge: Lights Lights and bells and Christmas trees — no holiday is more lit up than Christmas. We have light on the tractor in the driveway, the lights on the tree, and swag light on the window…. Read More ›
ALWAYS THE LIGHT
LIGHT FROM THE PAST I know that all of these were previously posted. I don’t know if they were posted under light or for some other reason, but all of them are all about light. When I think about photography,… Read More ›
IN JAPANESE, THERE IS A WORD FOR IT
When talking about photography, English doesn’t quite cut it, but as it turns out, Japanese does. They have a word for everything. I just learned “Komorebi. It means sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees,” and by extension, the natural filtering… Read More ›
NATURAL OR ELECTRIC? LET THERE BE LIGHT!
CFFC: Natural Light vs Man Made Light I pretty much always prefer natural light if I have a choice, but sometimes, you don’t have a choice and you have to use flash or some other kind of electric light. I used… Read More ›
BRIGHT LIGHTS
Bright Lights I hope I’m not repeating myself! I’m beginning to lose track of what I’ve published and what I haven’t. I have spent all of the past few days trying to get my software to install properly and making… Read More ›
BACKLIGHTING
A Photo a Week Challenge: Backlit There was a time when shooting anything “backlit” was a photographic “no-no.” I never agreed with that. For one thing, sometimes that’s the only light in town and we don’t all have either studio lighting… Read More ›
A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE: LIGHT & DARK – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
LIGHT AND DARK – A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE Garry brought me flowers. It has been a long time since he has been out long enough to buy anything. The roses smell like heaven in a vase. Such are my… Read More ›
THE SLANTED LIGHT BEFORE SUNSET – Marilyn Armstrong
It was late in the afternoon and the sun had swung from the northeast side of the house where the orchids are growing to the living room which faces northwest. I love the slanted yellow light which shines through the… Read More ›
ABOUT THE LIGHT – Marilyn Armstrong
Why do you take pictures? What makes you pick up your camera? Is it just the beauty of the scene? Or the smile on someone’s face? I’m sure it is different for each of us, but this morning, I remembered… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 