In the last few weeks, with the warmer weather, I’ve been encountering other photographers while I’ve been out and about. More often than not, they have enormous cameras with enormous lenses. And for what it’s worth, they’re usually male and somewhere in my age range (or older). Without going too far into sociology or demographics, [...]
All posts for the month May, 2011
Camera envy
Posted by Barbara on May 29, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/camera-envy/
Try try again
Please note… I’ve changed the URL to photoaspire.wordpress.com. Aspirant came up in the thesaurus for wannabe! I wasn’t willing to give up on those herons from Friday, so I went back to the Lab of O last night. Things I changed this time: brought the tripod and remote shutter changed the sharpness setting on the [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 22, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/try-try-again/
Close, but no cigar
Last week I listed 8 things I learned on the Jackson Hole trip. Apparently I didn’t learn them well enough. Last night, I went to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to work on the Flickr project group’s current “nature” theme, and just before sunset I was overwhelmed by the photographic choices available to me – [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 21, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/close-but-no-cigar/
The outside world
I returned home last night from 3 days in the nature photographer’s paradise that is Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where I participated in a “photo safari” sponsored by the New Media Consortium, an organization I belong to through work. It was a truly incredible experience. There were about 18 people, including some experts (Bill Frakes, who [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 15, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/the-outside-world/
A good problem
Yesterday was a great day in many ways: my kids were both home for Mother’s Day, hubby bought me a new computer (!), the weather was beautiful, and I spent some time at Sycamore Hill Gardens with some members of the Ithaca Photo meetup group. I learned two things on the Sycamore Hill Gardens trip: [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 9, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/good-problem/
Obsession
I think it might be a sign of obsession that tonight, while I was chopping vegetables for a salad, I noticed that the cucumber had some interesting condensation… and I had to drop everything and run for the camera.
Posted by Barbara on May 2, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/obsession/
When Photoshop is just plain necessary
Our yard is overrun with squirrels. Specifically, they’re Eastern Gray Squirrels – which, according to Wikipedia, are a ” prolific and adaptable species”, not only controlling our backyard but also taking over England and Ireland and wiping out their native red squirrel populations. Lately, though, we’ve had a new squirrel in town – an American [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 1, 2011
http://photoaspire.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/when-photoshop-is-necessary/
