If you’ve come via the home page or wandered through the galleries, you may have seen these images before even though they are barely 24 hours old. I took some time yesterday and worked on making images of the Gerbera that were different from what I often see and interesting to me from a compositional [...]
In my previous post (”Patterns”) I said that I am now much more likely to photographically decompose the subject and focus in on specific elements of a flower rather than the flower itself. While this is true, it doesn’t mean that I have totally abandoned flower portraits. I still work a few into almost every [...]
What would life be without rules? Some might say much better. Others might say anarchy.
Rules are made to be followed… sometimes. And rules are made to be broken… sometimes. The trick is knowing when to follow the rules and when to break them.
Take the image above. I have broken a rule of photography that says [...]
and finding another.
Sometimes we find ourselves so focused on what we are looking for that we fail to see what is right in front of us. That almost happened to me this past weekend when I stopped by the local floral shop in search of that perfect rose to photograph. Fortunately the florist allows me to browse the cooler on my own. I [...]