Lately I seem to keep running into accidental abstracts of drips. It started in late January, when I decided to try using my first smart phone for a photo shoot of the Chinese New Year parade. On the way I … Continue reading Accidental Abstracts of Drips
Playing around with softness has been an interesting experience. My first experiment with increasing softness was by reducing clarity. Al took these photos in RAW, back when RAW was quite new, and quite unknown, especially to me. I actually didn’t … Continue reading Bringing Softness to Photos
I’m not a big fan of black and white but this challenge was about shadows and reflections in monochrome, a subject that seems to work really well this way. Shadow of decorative screen in the Sun Yat Sen Garden in … Continue reading Monochrome Shadows and Reflections
This year I didn’t go anywhere; the furthest I made it took no more than a half hour on transit. As a result, my photos are all from Vancouver, and usually just a few blocks away. January. The discovery of … Continue reading Favourite Photos of 2022
Citrusy pink lemonade collage. More of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink Lemonade Continue reading Pink Lemonade
A ‘glue abstract’ is created when a sign is removed from a wall and exposes the movement, often unintentionally artistic, of the person who was applying the glue. This glue abstract was created when a metal ‘No Parking’ sign was … Continue reading Hidden Glue Abstracts Exposed!
The one thing you can do with a little point and shoot is adjust the exposure, and I’m doing it constantly. Mostly I use a -2 exposure for situations where it’s too dark to hand-hold the camera without shake. I … Continue reading Playing with Exposure on a Point and Shoot
In April a friend of mine studying photography had an assignment in her first-year course to take a magazine-type portrait of someone at work, using two types of light, available light and strobe-flash. My messy studio and I were her … Continue reading Don’t Wear White
The city gardeners have arranged such a variety of flowers in these two tiny gardens that many of them have become favourites, just because of the company they keep. Pink flowers such as Zinnias and Cosmos in the breast cancer … Continue reading Favourite Flower (Gardens)
Over the last year or so I’ve been working on diptychs – playing with a combination of opposites and similarities. I initially called them Natural, Unnatural, the majority being macros of tree bark (natural) combined with eroded urban objects (unnatural). … Continue reading Using Opposites for Diptychs
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