To dwell more on the good, bring a camera. It helps your mind unconsciously look for ways to use photography as meditation.
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Frost on Fallen Leaf Veins
I caught the pattern of veins and frost crystals on this leaf in the nick of time!
How do you know when you are pushing yourself enough creatively? When you stick with it until you are creating at your limits.
Sometimes small challenges add up, and rather than letting these little roadblocks stymie us, we need to find ways to move past them without wasting too much effort. This applies in creativity, productivity, and problem-solving just as much as on the literal trail, but we can struggle to do metaphorically what we do on the trail without a second thought. In small steps.
I love shopping eBay and browsing other photography marketplaces. They have taught me a lot about cameras, lenses, and other photography equipment. They’ve helped me clear out some old gear and helped me get replace the gear I wasn’t using with things that I needed. Flip through some examples made with lenses that gave me […]
How to grieve the end of fall. It’s a miniature grief, but one that matters if we really attend to it. If we pay attention, we can learn a little about beauty, development, grief, and hope.
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On community: can you love your place?
What does it take to belong to a community intentionally? It is easy to engage mindlessly and make a mess in our communities, and then to just leave when we don’t like the results. How can you start to engage more constructively
This is a Meopta Belar 4.5/50 has an unusual feature. It has a square aperture that makes some very funky bokeh. That means blurred hightlights become diamonds or boxes. If they’re close together, they look almost like a linen texture. See what it looks like, and learn how to get square or textured bokeh in your images.
You could win a lens. I spent the first half of this year figuring out how to make these Ektoplasmar converted projection lenses. Now you can win one. Just sign up for my newsletter about photography and creativity.
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Storm-Washed Chapin Forest Landscapes
Landscape images made in Chapin Forest Reservation just after a thunderstorm