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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital. |
Photo Terminology, Culture, and Propriety; Do Photographic "Captures" Imply Captive Subjects?
June 30, 2017 - Before discussing photographic terminology, some perspective is needed.
There is a theory "primitive peoples" believe...
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True Colors (Seven)
June 28, 2017 - Even when no sophisticated message is intended or inferred, color can deliver an emotional bump largely independent of s...
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True Colors (Six)
June 26, 2017 - It would be nice to wrap up the color discussion with a Grand Unified Theory that covers the full range of what color ca...
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True Colors (Five)
June 25, 2017 - Recall that this series of "True Color" posts is my attempt to devine color's function in photography, or at least its f...
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True Colors (Four)
June 23, 2017 - After the ungulate interlude, we return to color. We first have to set aside any preconceptions that B&W is the only tru...
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Ungulate Drive-By; Anchorage, June 2017
June 21, 2017 - We were pleased to again host "our" moose family yesterday morning. It was dark and threatening rain, and mom and both c...
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True Colors (Three);
June 20, 2017 - Sometimes color is the defining element, essential to the image. Having seen the image with color, it is hard to imagine...
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True Colors (Two); 2016, 2017
June 18, 2017 - When color's contribution to an image is particularly dramatic and prominent, it is easier to say the obvious: color add...
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True Colors; 2016, 2017
June 17, 2017 - Photography was limited to black and white (or its toned equivalents) for its first 80 or so years. Even when color chem...
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Motion Studies (Sequences); Alyeska, 2016, 2017
June 15, 2017 - Photographs can, despite their graphic precision, sometimes depict ambiguous scenes. But sometimes precise images involv...
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More Clouds; Anchorage, June 2017
June 13, 2017 - Color, especially brilliant color, is an attractant for most species, whether wasps or gallery visitors. And color is fu...
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Clouds; Anchorage, June 2017
June 12, 2017 - Most of us, including -- or especially -- photographers, like to wake to a bright blue sky. It promises a good day, some...
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Gaudi, Yet Again; Barcelona, 2009
June 11, 2017 - Gaudi's works are always called "organic," and "flowing" is often used (appropriately) to describe their fluid shapes. B...
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Gaudi, Again; Barcelona, 2009
June 10, 2017 - Gaudi was intensely religious. He devoted much of his energy and life to Sagrada Familia, as well as to work on existing...
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Antoni Gaudi; Barcelona, 2009
June 08, 2017 - Barcelona is an exciting, beautiful city, but the main reason to visit is to experience the legacy of Antoni Gaudi (1852...
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Partial Satisfaction (You Can't Always Get What You Want); Anchorage, June 2017
June 06, 2017 - You can't always get what you want. An old friend from law school and his wife made their first trip to Alaska, and I of...
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Dreamy, Creamy, Part Four; Anchorage, 2017
June 04, 2017 - Finally, for the last post in this series, here are some images from yesterday, June 3, 2017 and one from June 2. The Mo...
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Dreamy, Creamy, Part Three; France, Maui, 2010, 2014, 2016-2017
June 03, 2017 - Maui can be inherently dreamy in the evening and not much manipulation was needed to make the first two images look drea...
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Dreamy, Creamy, Part Two; Maui, 2016
June 02, 2017 - Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. So it is a fair question whether processing an image to empha...
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Dreamy, Creamy; Maui, Alaska
June 01, 2017 - The precision and technical quality of the images readily produced by modern equipment normally result in a sharply focu...
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