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Monthly Leaf Pile – June 2020

Monthly Leaf Pile – June 2020

What is a Monthly Leaf Pile? Monthly Leaf Piles are summary posts where I "rake together" of a variety of thoughts, activities, and behind-the-scenes activities that include more personal stories, commentary, and whatever else I can think of in looking back at the...

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The Secret of Seeing

The Secret of Seeing

For the Spring 2020 issue of Michigan BLUE magazine, I am pleased to share an article I wrote and provided all photographs for, including the cover. The piece has some of my thoughts on wandering and seeing mixed with my personal experiences as a diver. My interest in...

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When the jpeg is good enough

When the jpeg is good enough

Raise your hand if you have heard one of these statements before: "The photos on my website aren't large enough for print quality." "I am not concerned about web theft, only if someone steals for print." "I don't like watermarks, web images aren't good for printing...

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60 Second Exposure

60 Second Exposure

Black & White Photography BW142 Oct 2012 index Back in June, Tracy Hallett from Black & White Photography magazine reached out asking me to be interviewed for her regular column called "60 Second Exposure."  It seemed like quite a coincidence because shortly...

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Midwest Getaways and e-mags

Midwest Getaways and e-mags

I am tackling a couple of subjects with this post.  One is just sharing an article I recently licensed some images for in Cincinnati Magazine's May 2011 issue.  The other is how much I am enjoying getting magazines electronically now.   These two things came together...

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Evolving history of a photograph

Evolving history of a photograph

I recently had an image of mine selected for the Spring-Summer 2011 cover of a local college's art journal, called the MacGuffin.   It is a journal that features short stories, poems and a few photographs from 32 other contributors.   It is quite an old image, the...

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Michigan Blue Winter 2010

Michigan Blue Winter 2010

I am pleased to have the cover of the Winter 2010 issue of Michigan Blue magazine.   I just received my copies the other day. The image is of ice blocks on Lake St. Clair at one of my favorite winter spots to photograph.   Morning colors can be spectacular,...

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Three helpful website design tools

A number of things have changed since I last took on a website redesign 5 or 6 years ago.  First was that I am now designing on a Mac given my switch from PC's back in 2008.   This can make it difficult to debug unless you have access to PC's with various versions of...

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iPAD for Photographers

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.  ...

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