exploring nature’s infinite connections
If you have followed this blog in the past year or so, you know I have become a fan of a few of the TopazLabs Photoshop plugins. Today they just released a major update to their popular Topaz Adjust plugin, Topaz Adjust 4. If you are already a Topaz Adjust user, the...
Health care centers are increasingly looking to nature photography to help add some color, warmth, and serenity to normally visually cold, sterile, bland environments. This is one of the latest installations of my work at a hospital in Detroit in one of those...
Just a test of my Wordpress iPhone app that allows me to make quick posts from my phone. I took this photo just 30 minutes ago and did all processing on my iPhone using the Best Camera app and Photoshop Mobile. Sometimes the best camera (and computer as well) IS the...
I processed this image recently, although I actually made the exposure back in August 2008. I worked with it quite a bit to give it some depth and dimension. I wanted it to look like you could pick one of the rocks up off the page and put it in your...
There is one thing that kills an afternoon for me (in a good way?), and that is poking around for new music. My music tastes tend to be fairly diverse, which is probably reflected equally in my preferences for nature subjects. One of the things I tend to do is to...
At a bit of loss for words lately folks, so just a photo to share... a bit different from the one I posted before. I am sure this landscape doesn't even exist anymore, which is a pretty cool aspect of shooting these icescapes. It makes you appreciate the moment even...
I am currently working my way through a book that my wife gave me for my birthday called Camera, by Todd Gustavson. It is a large, coffee table book that takes you through the evolution of the camera from the very first photograph made in 1826 to the modern digital...
As much as I hate to admit it, yesterday was the first day I have been out photographing this year. Website redesign, processing older images, and filling orders has simply kept me indoors quite a bit. Still, I could not let January pass with not having been out...
Unless you have been comfortably tucked away yesterday reading one of those old fashioned, bound paper things or simply refused to listen to any one of 10,000 different media sources - you probably know that Apple unveiled their latest gizmo today called the iPad. ...