exploring nature’s infinite connections
Over the past few months, I have been migrating my cloud backup service which triggered more than a few headaches. I've been using CrashPlan for the longest time, resisting change because of the time it would take to upload to a different service. When I started with...
Late last year I was contacted by a Michigan art gallery owner who wanted to feature some of my work in a new venture they were exploring. It started with some initial phone conversations and a lot of very complimentary language from the gallery owner. He was a great...
The array of answers is interesting whenever I see the questions regarding signing photographs. In an older podcast by Brooks Jensen on signing prints (LW0025), he asks some probing questions and acknowledges no resolving answers. Even the 'traditional' art...
It isn't often that I blow up a macro shot to be 52 inches (1,321 mm) high, and a simple monarch butterfly becomes that much larger than life. In this case, a client requested this image as part of a larger layout scheme for a upcoming install at the St. John's...
I have been working on a website redesign steadily for about the past 2 months or so. I finish off little bit by little bit. When anyone works on web design, you are likely to go out and see what's out there lately. One thing I noticed is that a lot of...
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...
I am pleased to have a groundhog image of mine appear in Sierra magazine for January / February 2010 (pg. 18), along with some good biology information about this little guy predicting how much winter may be left in February. Let's hope he sees his shadow in...
Turquoise beaches Something I have made somewhat of a tradition is paying attention to Pantone's color of the year for the past couple of years. I find it interesting to see what they will pick next, the explanations they offer behind it, and to see if I have any...
Stock photographers are always reminded to shoot both verticals and horizontals of their subjects because you never know which is going to fit an editors needs better. Are they looking for cover material better suited to a vertical, or a two-page spread better...