An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks



Beach ball

A farewell shot of Hawaii — this, from the Kekaha Kai State Park, just north of the Kona airport on Hawaii’s big island:

Thought the view would be a good fit for my crystal ball; my 7 year old should be credited with the name for the post.

Here’s looking at you…

A very cooperative “bearded dragon,” photographed at the Denver Zoo…

Lights along the path

You can take the boy out of the southwest, but you can’t take (all) the southwest out of the boy:

One handy thing about being an “expatriate” New Mexican is that you can set up luminarias (or to be fussy, farolitos) almost anywhere. Courtesy of a snow storm a few days ago, this year [...]

Icy blue reflections

One of the really nice extras of the holiday season from a photographer’s perspective is that a lot of places put on special shows for a few weeks…

Crystalkeh

One of the things I’ve tried to habitually think of is taking shots with my crystal ball. So when I went on the photowalk through the Denver Zoo a few weeks back, I tried it out here and there.
Note to self: steadily hand-holding a crystal ball for long-exposure photography in sub-freezing weather isn’t all that [...]

Low-key sunrise

On the return leg of our recent Hawaii vacation, I was on a red-eye flight — great if you can figure out how to sleep on a plane, not so great if you’re tall enough that you’re essentially shoe-horned into your coach-class seat (thanks, United!). At least my lack of sleep meant I was awake [...]

Blue Christmas

A shot from a recent nighttime photowalk at the Denver Zoo…

Land of broken shadows

One last shot (for a while) from Santa Fe:

I saw this and just was struck by the odd (if somewhat subtle) difference between the geometry of the railing and that of its shadow. I didn’t have to do much to this shot other than tweak the saturation a bit. The odd break in [...]

Gone heart-shaped

I’ve discovered that bins of beads can make for some interesting (and easy to find!) photo opportunities. Here’s a shot I took a while back in a trinket store in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

I wish the beads were a bit shinier, but didn’t think the store owner would be too wild about me hanging [...]

Knee deep in lunchtime

I pulled up this summer shot to remind me of warmer times, if only as a break between bouts of snow-shoveling…