The Last Word

I’ve been playing with a tilt/shift lens on a digital SLR. I’m hoping to get sharper landscapes by not having to stop down as far to get the foreground and background in focus. Thus, the tilting action of the lens is what’s of interest to me.
The trick with a tilting lens, whether on a view [...]

In the mid eighties, I wandered into a dive shop looking for new fins. On the counter was a coffee table book of underwater photographs. The title was Within a Rainbowed Sea, and the photographer was somebody I’d never heard of named Chris Newbert. I picked it up and leafed through it, my jaw dropping [...]

The skies are bluer. The wind blows sweetly. The world is full of possibilities. I’m falling in love? No, but there are similarities in the body chemistry. I’ve got a new series.
Like love, you never know when it’s going to hit, and it sometimes comes at an inconvenient time. I’m up to my eyeballs in [...]

I spent some time yesterday unpacking the prints for the 2009 CPA Juried Exhibition. Many people brought their prints to the Center, so they weren’t hard to unwrap. The prints that were shipped were a different story. Everyone packed their prints well enough to survive the rigors of UPS; there was no damage. Some of [...]

I saw this quote in an ad for a guitar, attributed to St Francis of Assisi. Ignoring the fact that I first encountered it in the service of crass commercialism, and asking you to forgive the 13th-century gender viewpoint, I pass it along in the hope that it may mean something to you.
He who works [...]

The CPA recently completed the judging process for our upcoming juried exhibition. There were 696 photographs submitted by 165 artists. Huntington Witherill and I ran Lightroom while Al Weber picked 77 images by 70 photographers for the show. There were submittals from many famous photographers as well as people with more modest recognition, and, perhaps, [...]

I was watching Patty Griffin on Austin City Limits a while back. At the end of the hour, they ran an interview as they rolled the credits. She said something that hit home:
“Song writing is listening, not participation. You need to wait for the song to show up. You wait around, hoping that the Muses [...]

We’ve got a new CPA web site. The new site has ditched the old red-on-black color scheme. I’ve changed web hosting companies. I’m still using WordPress for my blog software, but I don’t feel the need to match the colors of the old blog, which colors I chose to provide some continuity with the old [...]

I went to Monument Valley last weekend. It was just a quick trip, and with non-photographer friends along, I mostly just played tourist. I did take one camera, one lens, and no tripod. The camera was a 4000 by 6000 pixel 35 mm format digital. I amused myself by snapping off 6 to 12 picture [...]

As I mentioned in the preceding post, I’ve been working a lot more on CPA business. How’d I get so involved? It’s a long story, and one that I’ll probably get into later; I’ve been on the Board since February, and President since March.
In March, we made a long list of things that needed work. [...]