• architecture,  Canon Powershot G12,  window

    The Window

    February 2, 2012
    The Window

    I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer. – Alfred Eisenstaedt

    While visiting my parents a couple of weeks ago, we stopped by a friend of theirs to see a massive garage he was having built. I roamed around his home with my camera and did some scene studying. It feels to me that changing this to sepia tone also changes the tone of the story in image.

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  • Canon Powershot G12,  Documentary/Street

    How ’bout a cold drink?

    January 31, 2012
    A Cold Drink

    There are those who take photographs arranged beforehand and those who go out to discover the image and seize it. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

    I did not arrange this image, someone else did. I just discovered it and pressed the shutter button. Found somewhere on the streets of downtown Omaha, NE on a cold and overcast day.

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  • architecture,  Canon Powershot G12

    Blue Skies

    January 30, 2012
    Blue Skies

    This is another image where it pays to look up. My dad and I had walked to a coffee shop located in a small shopping mall and were on our way back to the house when I looked up and saw this gorgeous blue sky framed by the buildings. Dad waited as I took a few frames. It reminds me of younger years hiking with my dad. I wonder how much I missed because I was so focused on the trail in my attempt to keep up with him and not stumble. Photography has taught me to slow down, look around and see all that is present to me. Dont’ want to miss those blue skies.

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  • Canon Powershot G12,  Travel

    Stretched Out

    January 27, 2012
    Stretched Out


    On one of flights last week we had a very light load, less than half full. While in the aft galley I looked forward and smiled when I saw this guys foot out in the aisle. He was all stretched out and deserved a photograph.

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  • Canon Powershot G12,  quotes,  shadows

    Spoon Shadows

    January 24, 2012
    Spoon Shadows

    “Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you’re moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That’s where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It’s when you trust what’s happening at a non-intellectual nonconscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can’t articulate a response to.”

    Jerry Uelsmann

    I have the next two days off and I need them. The last several days have been busy with lots of travel time. Would love to venture out for some landscape images but the motivation is not there. When this happens my focus is on those things near. I find it interesting that for a simple image as the one above, I can change my perspective so much easier than I can of vast open valley or meadow. I can easily take the spoon and turn it to alter the shape of its shadow. Can’t turn a mountain or move a tree the same way. In vast landscapes I have to be the moving object to get the perspective I need.

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  • Canon Powershot G12,  Cityscapes/Urban

    What I See

    January 9, 2012

    Locked and Secured

    Why do I see what I see? It’s a question that wanders through my mind every so often. I know we all see the world with different lenses and filters. That leads to another question, What sort of lens do I see with?

    A couple weeks ago while walking back to the hotel with two other members of my crew I noticed this bicycle locked in the bicycle stand. I had to stop because I knew there was an image there. They stopped and waited as I walked towards the scene, composed and took one shot. I then joined them and continued towards the hotel. Nothing was said to me as some crew members have come accustomed to my passion. When reviewing the image on my computer I wondered if they saw the scene I saw. A bicycle in a bicycle rack is a common scene on our city streets. Were they capable of isolating the bicycle from the whole scene where a photographer does on a regular basis? We humans have a field of view somewhere between 160 and 208 degrees. We scan constantly and pick out items that resonate with us. I smile to myself as I realize how often I see the world through my viewfinder which is usually somewhere between 17 and 140 mm. It’s what I see.

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  • Canon Powershot G12,  Cityscapes/Urban,  Documentary/Street

    Not One to Loiter

    January 7, 2012

    No Loitering

    I’m not one to stay in one place too long, no grass growing under my feet. For one thing I find it uncomfortable to sit or stand too long as the aging back gets stiff and sore. But I do not describe myself as an antsy person either who is constantly tapping the table with a pencil, shaking my foot from side-to-side or bouncing my knee nervously. Yet, I am capable, and find it necessary, to be still and quiet where I enjoy my form of prayer and meditation.

    This work I do as a flight attendant fits me. I’ve discovered I’m not a very good passenger. I would much rather be working the flight rather than sitting. And, during our overnights I need to get out and about. Outside my hotel room there is a world to experience and people to encounter. I need to meet these people and hear of their stories, their dreams, their pain. Something within me needs to “move it, move it” as they song goes in the movie Madagascar. I guess you can say I’m not one to loiter.

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