Notes from the Woods

seeing · environment · exploration · photography

Compositionally friendly subjects

Something I was thinking about this weekend while I was out photographing was about how some subjects lend themselves to a greater variety of composition possibilities than others. Quite often you are access limited, or at the mercy of wildlife behavior in determining...

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Gallery back up

Well, as I had feared, upgrading my gallery to the latest Coppermine code took a lot longer than I had hoped for. And at 3 am, my iPod has lost its steam as well. Over the years, I have made numerous tweaks, enhancements, and significant modifications to the...

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Gallery will be offline

I am going to attempt a gallery upgrade today on my Coppermine installation.  So the gallery may be offline for awhile, or you may see it look funny while I get all the modifications done.   Hopefully this will go smoothly.   Print orders will also be offline.

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When color is a distraction

It seems rather funny for a nature photographer to say, particularly when we often are out trying to photograph at the best color times of the day.   But quite often, it isn't color that really defines the subject matter of an image - it is texture, patterns, lines,...

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Pix Channel

Pix Channel What Makes Photographers Click I came across this site recently through a reference in a magazine, and found it fascinating. This site features video interviews with many well-known photographers. I am watching the engaging interviews with Eddie Adams and...

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Unprecedented action by Spain

My wife shared this story with me, and I just felt the need to pass it on as it is simply fascinating to contemplate where this will head. Granting rights to a non-human species just opens up so many things to think about. This will be very interesting in how it...

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The Process

About two years ago now, my wife gave me an acoustic guitar for an anniversary present, which started me into a whole new art form that I had very little knowledge about. I played around a little with music and a keyboard while in college, but never really put any...

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Adding more new ‘old’ images…

As I have written about before, from time to time I go skimming through my old folders of images. Sometimes a few get put aside during the editing process and time gets away from me. Here are a couple I really liked, I'll probably turn the frosty one into a nice large...

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