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Something I was thinking about when processing this lady slipper image was how gritty and ‘hard looking’ it was becoming, and how that is normally the opposite of how flowers are portrayed. Perhaps one might stereotype flower photographs as being ‘pretty’, ‘delicate’,’soft’, or even to the point of sensual ala Georgia O’Keeffe. […]
Quite a few nature photographers carry around a black velvet cloth with them when they photograph wildflowers. The purpose is to completely get rid of distracting background elements and it can create quite a dramatic effect complimenting the subject.
I don’t use this technique very much because I tend to go for more […]
I got most of my way through editing my fox shots from this past weekend. The more I use Lightroom, the more I appreciate its features in being able to sort through a day’s shoot and do very quick editing of the keepers, shots destined for the trashcan, and the best of the lot. […]
Anyone who has been following this blog for awhile knows that red foxes have evaded me for many, many years despite several efforts on my part to be hidden, in the right place at the right time, even using tracking during winter to find probable den sites. If not, you can see these prior […]
Today is Endangered Species Day. From the name, it is obvious what it is about, but if you want a little more info and background, you can head over to this site. So what do you do for this day? Well, the Endangered Species Coalition certainly has a lot of good […]
