Tag: iPhoneography
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8 Years
It had been 8 years. I gripped the straight cutter and pulled the sharp blade hard toward me along the metal edge and through the creamy thickness of the 4-ply matte board. 8 years. I penciled the math for the cut-out like pouring a glass of water. 12″ is 11 16/16″ less 7 12/16″ equals…
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Experiments in Mobile Photography
My husband and I went to Ridge Vineyards last weekend to celebrate his birthday and enjoy the last days of summer. We found an open picnic table under an umbrella on top of the mountain and from this vantage point we looked over all the San Francisco Bay area. It was a wonderful mini-vacation. A…
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Insights from Mobile Photography on the Run
Lately, the path is not so clear. But the beauty that surrounds me everyday is and I am grateful to see much of that while out running. Running gives me the chance to know my body’s mind and sometimes the pictures I take on a run give me insights later on. In retrospect, this week’s…
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Ruth Bancroft Garden Visit
The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, CA is the land of giant succulents. Planted 40 years ago after the walnut trees died in a working orchard, today’s specimens span many varieties and ages. Handy tables underneath the expansive shade, winding paths around islands of cacti, and human-scale sculptures hidden everywhere make this garden far more…
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Interpreting Images: Agapanthas and the Night
When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, “Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant,” she was talking about writing. But she could have also been talking about photography. Sometimes looking at something, even when improved and beautiful, is not the end. Here’s an agapantha blossom, improved and beautiful. There are more ways to look at…
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Mobile Photography on a Run
Once again, the camera you have with you is the best one particularly when you are mobile. When I’m out for a jog, my Canon is just too big to carry but my iPhone is the perfect size for mobile photography. I used my trusty Camera+ app to capture this intimate porch nook among the…
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Saffron Stamens & Wrinkled Petal Sheets
Saffron stamens rise from wrinkled petal sheets blushed warm by the morning sun. I passed this same light play last week but without my mobile photography “camera” or iPhone. On this particular early morning, I set out at 6:30am with a mission to catch these mantilleja or mantilija poppies in the act of perking up to the…
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Be Biased
Her words have been reverberating in my head for a couple of weeks now. “Be Biased“ I heard her talk, “Translating Science into Poetry“, at the first Write the Docs conference earlier this month. She did the unpredictable – applied principles from poetry to science. Daniya Kamran was her name. I attended the conference to deliver Sketchnotes: Communicating Complex Ideas…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
Driving 70 mph down the highway, I never examined it closely. On a sleepy Sunday morning I decided to jog by instead with my iPhone set to Hipstamatic, GSquad, C Type-Plate: View this post on Instagram Even at this distance, the font didn’t pop out at me, didn’t look special. I wondered, “Why THAT font for NASA?”…
