First Post of the New Year A combination of things have kept me from photography in the month since our return to Arizona. That includes the usual fixes to domestic amenities, left unused since our departure last spring, some household projects and the resumption of the administrative duties of running a home. Without the time…
Category: Still Life
Still Life Photography
Earlier this winter, my friend Bob Bear decided to further sharpen his photography skills. He acquired a good book, and began working his way through it. Each section concludes with a photo assignment. Bob enlisted some friends in his endeavour and we joined him in completing the assignments. It has proven to be a great…
Nothing in Particular
This post is about nothing (in particular). Sounds like an episode of Seinfeld. What I mean is that there is no specific theme, just a few appealing photos I’ve accumulated over the last little while. I begin with a close-up shot of a hibiscus flower that I photographed during a recent trip to Florida. I…
Creative Use of Depth of Field
Depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible…
Dabbling in the Abstract
Following our stop at Cascade Ponds yesterday, we moved on to two other locations where we could experiment with some abstract images. The areas chosen, Sawback Burn and Muleshoe in Banff NP offer some good scenes for what we had in mind. Sawback Burn is the site of a prescribed burn several years ago. It…