Tag: black and white

Trees, cold, and me

What to do during a sub-freezing weather spell? I, for one, carried about my regular work duties – to a point. Although I was out and about prior to the polar vortex plunge, I quickly decided that it wasn’t for me. When you can’t stand being out in the weather after 30 seconds, and you don’t really have to, you find alternative…

Now. where was I?

It was a nice relaxing holiday season but it’s time to get back in the groove. As I mentioned at the tail end of 2013, I was thinking of bringing this blog to an end but decided to stick it out for one more year.  So, lucky you, I’ll be around for a little longer. Actually I decided to reconfigure the…

In print, and other musings

My photo, “Curved Pipes”, was chosen to be included in Black and White magazine’s contest issue #101, available on newsstands now. It was placed in the category Pattern/Texture (pg. 231) and is also featured in the table of contents (pg. 11), which was a nice bonus. I have to say though, among the 8 images I submitted, I didn’t think this one…

In a B&W mood

Here’s one from last summer. That’s about all I have to say for the moment, but I will have an announcement coming soon. Enjoy!

Things are slow

I think I snapped the shutter on my camera twice this past week. I can’t even remember what for and I haven’t even bothered to look. I know it wasn’t anything worth shooting. It was probably just so I wouldn’t forget how to use my camera. 🙂 The upcoming holiday season seems to be the only bright spot this time…

Dry time

This has to be longest dry spell I have had for a while towards photography. I’m just not finding anything that interests me. No lights, no shadows, no textures, no nothing. Granted it’s the crappy time of year around here and the days the last week have been, up until today, bright and sunny, which creates a harsh light that…

Autumn of a different color

What to do when the Autumn color just isn’t very spectacular and straight black and white isn’t working? Monochrome of a different color! I visited the local park to see if there was any fall color remaining to at least capture something before the dreaded six months of colorless landscape occurs. Although the park looked “autumny” I really didn’t see any “big picture”…

Perseverance

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.  ~Newt Gingrich   Victory!! After a lot of patience and perseverance, I believe I have finally fixed my computer. It took a few nights of not doing the right thing and getting frustrated before I buckled down and slowly went through…

The problem

The problem with having a photo blog is that you have to continually add photos to it. And they have to be interesting enough to keep the reader’s attention and, hopefully, make them want to keep coming back. But if you start to slack off either in frequency or content, or both, the poor readers will have no choice but to move…