First of all, if you haven’t heard of Jessica Ambats – or you need a high-flying refresher course, go see her here. When you’re done gawking and scraping your jaw off the floor, come back over here. Because your NEXT question is going to be: “How does she DO that??”. If you’re like me, you…
I love this photo. I also loved unexpected giggles. This moment happened in Hawaii, when I had a day to wander about looking for awesome vistas. I certainly found one here, amongst these dramatic rocks that still seemed molten, with the rough blue-blue water hammering against its edges. Oh yeahhh baby, I could see it…
The Inner Game of Photo Processing I showed you a photo that happened kind of by accident – but was definitely an “inner game of processing” breakthrough for me here. When I came out of “the zone” and looked at my Photoshop layers, thinking about what prompted each one, it wasn’t a process I found…
When you first see this photo, what’s your first reaction? Do you know what it is? Does it make you curious? Does it irritate you? Entice you? Make you tilt your head like the RCA dog? Yawn? Judge it in some way? Er, what? Mind you, I didn’t create it with any particular reaction in…
Remember the post from that day when I was in Hawaii… the entire island beckoning to me… and I had a throwback agoraphobic moment, almost not getting out the door? (if you don’t, it’s here). Well, I made it out the door. And here’s why we must never succumb to anything less than what our…
Over here, I mostly talked about art/life/inspiration/photography-related stuff. But like everyone, I have a past. No, not sordid and reality-show style past! I used to coach news reporters and anchors in voice and on-air performance. I did this for close to 25 years. About 15 years ago, I met Michaela Pereira. It was right before…
Welcome back! Yesterday I started the processing tale of this bird’s tail (hehheh)… if you haven’t seen that and want to catch up, it’s here. So far, I liked the direction, but it still needed a bit more work. So I turned to onOne Software’s Focal Point 2 to show Joe a twist on the…