Love from My Camera

Today I ran across a fairly uninteresting question in one of the Facebook photography groups I belong to--but the answers intrigued me.

One of the newbies to the group had innocently asked what recommendations we all had for improving landscape photography, especially nighttime photography--she was wondering about books or other suggestions. I was kind o...

My latest assignment for the Project 52 Pros was to create a still life with flower(s) in it—the flowers didn't need to be the focus of the image, but they did need to appear somewhere. I learned a few things with this assignment. First, I need to hire a stylist because I stink at arranging things in an artful way. I don't even want to admit how much time...

I've mentioned elsewhere in the forum that I'm part of Don Giannatti's Project 52 Pros photography group, and he's giving us weekly commercial photography assignments. So I just thought I'd share my second assignment because it was quite educational for me—and fun too.

Our assignment was to figure out our personal vision statements when it comes to pho...

I've been watching my four-year-old daughter and delighting in her creativity. She loves to create, and she does it with great abandon, with no restrictions or self-consciousness. Whether she's drawing or cutting and gluing or just plastering something with stickers, she's happy to be creating something, and she's satisfied with her work. She doesn't worr...

Those of you who make resolutions, did you make any photography-related resolutions?

It's a few minutes past midnight here, and I'm up blogging and listening to fireworks somewhere down the road. I'm also sitting here hoping I got into a year-long photography seminar run by Don Giannatti. Crossing my fingers… Completing this seminar is resolution number...

Heh.

I belong to a few Facebook photography groups, and at least once a week, someone gets angry and offended about a non-photographer (a photography muggle?) saying, "Wow! Your camera takes really nice pictures." Everyone chimes in about how ignorant and rude such a statement is (we are artistes, after all), and they always offer snappy comebacks such...

I have it . . . this "me too" photography syndrome. Especially when it comes to landscapes!

Do you know what I'm talking about? It's like a tourist bagging sites--everyone else has been to the Tower of London, so . . . me too! Let me check it off my list, ya know? Same thing happens in photography. Have you ever been to a popular scenic place around suns...

Lately I've had to revisit one of my old policies that had kind of gone by the wayside within the last year. Rontography reminded me of it in a recent thread:

Source: Backlit leaf


And the need to do reinstate this rule in my life has been highlighted as I've attempted to participate in the Single Lens Challenge on this forum (which, by the way, join u...

This past summer I had the opportunity to hear two very different photographers speak about their craft: Adam Barker (an amazing action and landscape photographer) and Brooke Shaden (a Photoshop master who makes mundane photos into amazing dreamlike images). They are vastly different in style and subject matter, but they had one very important thing in co...

And it's not likely that I will seein's how I'm female and all. So, let me rephrase--I don't want to be "that photographer." There. Gender neutral.

Today I went to a nearby amusement park with my husband and daughter as well my sister and her family. Before we left, I debated on whether or not I should take my DSLR--I enjoy taking pictures of my family h...