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



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 [...]

Warp Christmas

I haven’t really played much with zooming a lens in the middle of taking an image — but since I was taking long-duration tripod shots on my recent night excursion to the Denver Zoo, thought it was a good time to start…

Blue Christmas

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

Pele’s workshop

Since you never really know who’s reading your blog, I’ve thought it best to talk about travel only after I’ve returned home from it. So now I can start telling you about a family vacation we just wrapped up in Hawaii.
The lead-off shot — lava reaching the sea on the “big island” of Hawaii:

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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 [...]

Radiating shadows

On our recent trip back to New Mexico, we managed to stay a night and a day in Santa Fe…

Whee!

So what’s a guy to do when he’s out of town on a business trip, and spends all his daylight hours in meetings?