Category: Photography
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Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders Part 2
In my previous post, I shared my introduction to Marcel Wanders and his products and ideas. In this post, I want to test how his ideas show up in his products on exhibit at the Stedelijk Museum and in his store, Moooi. These 2 faces were almost one story tall and slowly rotated around: The second face on the back…
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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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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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Selected for Photo of the Day on AMPt
The AMPt (the Advanced Mobile Photography team) selected my photo, Standing the Tests of Time, for Photo of the Day last week and featured it on their home page. I am honored! Here’s a screenshot of the week’s Photos of the Day as posted on Instagram. So which one is it? It’s in the upper right corner in…
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The Beauty of Different
A belated Merry Christmas to you! I hope it was everything you hoped for and more. I found a wonderful quote in one of my gifts, The Beauty of Different: Observations of a Confident Misfit, a rich book by Karen Walrond, filled with macro photographs of people. Karen is a multi-talented wife, mother, lawyer, photographer and speaker, originally…
