Another Member of the Zoo

Weekly off-topic voyage into photography...

8/26/07; f/4.5; 1/15 shutter speed.

This is Dawn, about a year ago. Back when she was little and cute (about 4 months old). She's still this beautiful, but not quite so little. She also won't pose for me any more, so getting new shots is tougher.

Photoday

We're in class today, delving further into the mysteries of Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I spend a fair amount of time using those programs already, but it's always interesting to learn the shortcuts that someone else uses, or find something new while randomly searching around when time is available.

I also, shockingly, ended up with some time to take photos last weekend. Nothing great, but at least I had time to hold my camera and play with it.

After a bit of photoshopping (really, not much) here's what we end up with:


Eh, not really anything to be proud of, but that's how it goes sometimes.

The Weekends are for Photographs

The weekends should be for taking photographs, but there's not always time. Fortunately, thanks to this class, I'm taking time every day to sit at the computer and do some blogging, some website design, some research, and some thinking about how it all ties together with teaching. My brain is full. So, I spend the weekends working on the same skills, but with an easier target: posting some favorite pics.

This is a water fountain in Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon. Taken with the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, 10/7/06, f/7.1, 1/25, ISO 200.



The same image was used for the new 'picture of the week' on my Frontlight website, but cropped down. For those who saw it there first, this is the full image.

Puppy

Meet Hunter, our yellow Lab.

ISO200, shutter speed 1/15, f/4, shot on my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
January 8, 2007

Back then he was a big ol' bundle of crazy energy. We adopted him from the animal shelter when he was a year and a half old. He's now about 3, and a big ol' sweetie. He still has lots of energy, but now he listens to commands, is calm when we have guests, and I LOVE that I can walk him without a leash. And he's got great big brown eyes and floppy ears that give great expressions for photos.

Because I can

This is from the San Francisco Zoo, sometime in 2006. It's a good example of my typical work - usually flowers in a nearly abstract way. Some of it comes from a Georgia O'Keefe influence, her flower paintings are always very powerful to me. Some of my style just comes from (as my art professor deduced in college) looking though a microscope one too many times - I like to really focus in on a detail of the image, enlarge it, and let everything else get lost out of focus. I believe it was a compliment.