What defines the subject of an image?
My Mom used to pull out her Kodak box camera and line up my sisters and me, look through the viewfinder, and when she could see us smiling and looking at the camera, and in the center of the frame, would push the doohickey. One click and we were done till the next photo occasion. [...]
My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
hey Ed, a quiz, do a quiz
ok, (unlike my other quizzes, you can skip the questions and look at the comments for the answers) ©2007 Ed Book ©2007 Ed Book ©2007 Ed Book Peace
out for a walk and some images yesterday evening…
Anderson Landing Preserve – Kitsap Peninsula/Hood Canal/Puget Sound -Washington ©2006 Ed Book On the way home from an appointment in town, I stopped by Anderson Landing Preserve to walk a little and scout for some compositions carrying the Pentax S40 in my pocket vice the Canon system and pack… While concentrating on making an image, [...]
Cormorants lifting off one at a time
Cormorants ©2006 Ed Book I watched these cormorants for a long time waiting for them to fly wanting to get them in the air. They thwarted my efforts by flying one at a time. I wanted a few in the air at the same time. I was able to photograph them in the air one [...]
how did I do this?
Dave and I were standing beside each other in a parking lot when I made this image. How did I do it? Peace
quake-y bridge (my 2000th Live Journal entry)
There’s a photo over in alpenglo that this poll refers to… Peace
long ago but fairly near
ohhhh, look at all the bad merges… a “merge” is where an element in the foreground crosses over the edge of elements in the background or the image edge… sometimes, they detract from the image like in this one where the trees at the top are cut off unnaturally by the top of the frame. [...]
lots going on right now but first…
The senario: Chinook Pass… I am standing early morning on a rock in the middle of a stream so as not to crush the delicate plants in the meadow with my camera in front of me on the tripod… I look at the scene and shake my head wondering how I’m going to compress the [...]
