Photographing snowflakes
Here is one method of getting really good photos of snowflakes using DIY equipment. Amazing clarity.
Here is one method of getting really good photos of snowflakes using DIY equipment. Amazing clarity.
Question: How do you create a large exquisite expressionist painting in one session? My friend Paul LaFlam is an artist in St. Louis, and he would give an answer something like this: Pour several gallons of hardware store house paint onto a big horizontal wooden canvass and then "brush" the paint with torn pieces of cardboard, making sure to let your painting dry for at least three days, because it is 1/8" deep. The layers of the paint interact with one another, and "the paint does much of the work itself." Paul offered to let me videotape his unusual process awhile back, and we finished up editing the videotape today. Check it out.
Beautiful photography combining the youthful and current images of the elderly. It seems to take some of the sting out of aging, maybe most of it.
The first photo below is an HDR photo I took of the Lincoln Memorial 3 nights ago. Walking around DC, I'm mostly repulsed by the thought of what this city has become: Blatant corruption and warmongering hypocrisy. But I draw strength and hope from the glorious monuments on the National Mall.
One of my photographer mentors advised that I try to shoot SOMETHING every day. And this morning I finished reading Phil Zimbardo's "The Time Paradox," from which I learned (for the 800th time) that my perspective is skewed way toward future time orientation, which causes me to miss out on the present, especially ordinary things that are actually quite stunning. Therefore . . . I gave myself an assignment to take photos of leaves from the backside, illuminated from the front by direct sun. I tried to simply enjoy their beauty, but couldn't help contemplating their incredibly sophisticated function.