Oxherding Is Fun

Where is your passion?  What ignites that spark within?
Processing my latest images from a business trip to Las Vegas reminded me of what I am passionate about and certainly what I am not.  Every Vegas image was a chore to process.  No fun.  No desire.  No spark.  I made it through six images with many [...]

I climb once more
into your december soul
rock wall ……cold
no hand ……hold
no crag to grasp
can I resist the leap
through air so packaged,
………printed in crystal copyright blue
…………………..(ulysses butterfly cmyk(92%, 59%, 0%, 4%))
breathless flight
the fall
a brief superman
……..carried upon wings of plastic
at the velocity
of society
…….guaranteed
fourteen false summits
…..and you and I are already starting at the top
a heart
granite hard
still bleeds
green [...]

jewels sparkle lit  ….like christmas lights    ……..hung by ozark squirrels
amber jade garnet emerald  ….and a turquoise sky  ……..wet diamond white refraction
pierces eyes unblinking — all is light and change — in the forest between the eye and the i

The late afternoon sun lights up an Ozark forest within Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas.

hiking upon a carpet of wet autumn leaves
the spirit takes flight
on the back of wafting leaf carried by a chill wind

A very well respected photographer spoke at our last CapMac photography group meeting whose main passion was portraiture via black and white film photography — his art is excellent.  While he embraced digital workflow in his commercial work he called HDR the “tube top of modern photography” and he did not veil his disdain for [...]

Just get your butt out of bed, pick up your camera and tripod, and catch a sunrise.  Need more help than that?  Go read “The War of Art” by Pressfield.

Remember the saturated color of postcards?  That look is easy to accomplish with HDR.  Some subject matter is just perfect for it.

Where does a sunset exist?  In the sky above the treeline?  In the water before a waterfall?  In the photographer’s eye of a father and son sharing an adventure?  In memory to be stored up for a rainy day? 

I did not fully understand the the term “the tail is wagging the dog” when I first heard that saying years ago.  Now, with photography I fully do realize its meaning.  And I have HDR to thank for that.  High Dynamic Range image processing results in a wider range of light *and* higher intensity levels [...]

Light.   Direct sun, indirect, hazy clouded, sunrise, sunset, reflected, full moon-lit, and on and on…  It is the facilitation of all that is photography and the other visual arts.  Study it before trying to capture it.
I sat at this small pond a long while before I touched my camera.  The light changed the trees, plants, [...]