exploring nature’s infinite connections
Matteuccia struthiopteris, or Ostrich Fern, is a fern we have in abundance in our yard. Every year they seem to find a new spot to pop up. They are quite prolific. It doesn't seem to matter sun or shade as they are a forest understory native species, though I suppose...
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....
Of course, in a broad sense, I know I've been to Joshua Tree National Park in California. However, in reviewing some more of my archives, I found photographs that I have zero recollection of making. I know I visited this national park in California back in 2004. But...
As I've already whined about on social media, I had a hard drive failure this past week. I've been pretty lucky when it comes to hard drives. Usually, they fill up and need to be replaced before anything catastrophic happens. Rarely do I consider just their physical...
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...
I have been at a bit of a loss of words or image inspiration of late. Loss of words I suppose is a poor way to put it, it is actually too many words and thoughts that take some effort to sort through and organize in any type of coherent manner. So much going on in the...
As I whittle my way through this task of recreating my galleries, I am learning little efficiencies along the way. This gallery plugin I am using, NextGen Galleries, has an interfacing Adobe Lightroom module. It's another plugin within the plugin!...
For me, much of the power of using a piece of software like Adobe Lightroom is that it utilizes a central database as reference to your images. This is one of the biggest differences between using Lightroom to access and organize your work versus some other form...
I came across an interesting discovery yesterday. I have been wanting to make a streamlined method for creating JPEGs for submissions for stock using Lightroom. Normally I would open the image (either RAW or a PSD edited file) in Photoshop, convert to 8 bit, Adobe...