Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Happy Easter!
In the wee hours of Easter morning, when I couldn’t sleep, I spent some time on a glowing screen in the dark editing a photo I had grabbed on the day before, the one thing I did for myself in the sea of expectations and lists. At 4:00am I had something I liked. Something that…
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Meditation on Good Friday
I don’t have the right words for this photo yet so these will have to do for now. This photo reminds me that often there are (at least) two different realities going on at the same time, the physical and the spiritual. For example, how can a day be called “Good” that was the death of Jesus?…
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The Unexpected at Hôtel Droog
I found Hôtel Droog (Staalstraat 7b) listed in the “Distinctly Amsterdam” section of the National Geographic book Walking Amsterdam: The Best of the City. The hotel part is a one-bedroom attic apartment on the top floor. The Droog part is a design emporium, designed interior, exhibition space, and café. The interiors turn your expectations upside…
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Breutiful Calero Reservoir Trail Run 2014
Breutiful. Yes, spell check, exactly that. The Calero Reservoir Trail Run put on by West Coast Trail Runs was breutiful. The reservoir is nestled in the land of barns and bales in a South San Jose valley. Next to the valley are some impressive mountains. Not the Swiss Alps but still, enough to be breutiful…
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Flying Away
A fellow Instagrammer, @randommarcus or Marcus Carlberg, let me know what app he used to shoot one striking photo in his stream. It was Fotor HDR. I tried it out this week on a flight. Here’s the color image as shot but cropped square using the rule of thirds to place the wing tip: There are…
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Explored on Flickr 2
Out of the 1.42 million photos uploaded a day on average to Flickr, the “Explore” algorithm along with some human intervention, pick 500 images to highlight as the most interesting. The first one of my “Explored” images is in an earlier post called Explored on Flickr. This last week, another one of my images earned the Explore designation!…
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Does Your Contrast Show
I found a great app through Geri Centonze’s Art of Mob. In mid-February she profiled John Hornbeck’s app called Contrast. I really liked the look of the images so decided to experiment with it. Here are a few images. One of the things I love about this app is the richness and certainty of the blacks.…
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The Power of Perspective
It’s a question that doesn’t get asked and answered once. It’s one that pops up as many times as people ask a pregnant woman when she’s due but instead of for a few months, it’s for a lifetime. How am I going to look at this? This circumstance. What are some circumstances? (all hypothetical): I…
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From Drab to Dynamic
Drab-looking days don’t have to result in drab photos. Often those drab days still have energy and aliveness that doesn’t show up in our photos. Fortunately, we don’t have to stop there. Here’s an original drab day photo that I took with my iPhone 5 on a muddy trail run in San Francisco: It doesn’t…
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From Ill-Matched Threads to a Single Cloth
It all began with reorganizing my few studio shelves for easy access to the art tools I use most. A yellow Kodak slide carousel box on the middle shelf did not qualify. Opening the lid revealed a round row of slides (upside down and backward) with clear labels (title, artist, medium, size) on the top…
