exploring nature’s infinite connections
Ideas for photos don't always align with my abilities to execute them. I feel like I should have that made into a t-shirt, given how many times I've thought it to myself. I may have an idea that I have a general concept of how I will develop it, but as they say, the...
It's been one year since I returned to printing photographs at home with the replacement of my old, defunct Epson 4800 with a Canon Image ProGRAF 300 (great name 😉 ). The Epson was turned over to an electronics recycler and the Canon is slurping up delicious ink....
I've kept the files I've used to make prints over the years for the longest time. The other day I deleted them - all of them. I was doing some digital housekeeping and found these archived print files were taking up some significant drive space. I initially kept them...
When I was doing a little research for my Dune Dragons series years ago during the last solar eclipse, I become more interested in Chinese Astrological symbolism - but it sort of fell away. The 12-year repeating animal cycle has some interesting history, but when you...
Cleaning up old images and deciding if I want to keep them around on my site seems to be a never-ending chore. This may have been one of the very first sunrise photos I was ever happy with back then. From my database notes, it was originally exposed on Oct 1, 1997,...
Well, I really meant to not let so much time lapse from my last post - but you know the saying it goes on the best-laid plans. I've been busy integrating a newly adopted dog into our household, working some of my volunteer activities, and a host of other things....
The organization of my photo archive has certainly evolved over the years. The most notable change of course was in a move from analog to digital photography many, many years ago. My file cabinet full of 35mm slides sits basically untouched these days. It isn't...
Last December, I made a post about how I often use my iPhone as a sketchpad for ideas, often sharing them to Instagram. I usually encounter two main issues when developing something on my phone. The first being many apps on my phone don't have corresponding desktop...
The title of this post, for those not familiar, is from the Talking Head's 1981 song "Once in a Lifetime." A song NPR listed as one of the 100 most important musical works of the 20th Century. A song some interpret as a commentary upon the excesses and absurdity of...