Quotes
“Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early: Let it flow.” – Ross Lovegrove
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” – Maimonides
Links
Photoessays/Bodies of Work
– The first peoples of Australia
– Baltimorian goes south, way south! Others work/travel in Madagascar and Albania
– Street Photography: Belinda Corney, London
– Swimming holes across the US
– History of photography
Post-processing
– High end retouching with dodge and burn
– Quick and easy vector masks 90 second video with several tricks I wasn’t aware of.
– How to remove a person in PS
Field/Studio
– Central US birding hotspots
– Seeing in black and white
Miscellany
– EXIF data
Damselfly tentatively identified as Elegant Spreadwing. Correction or confirmation would be much appreciated.
Juvenile little blue heron eating a frog.
Composite with long exposure for the bottom, polarizer for the sky.
Do you prefer the BW or the color?
Richard, great reads again! Thank you. About your damselfly.,my app tells me it is a fragile forktail, but the photo is rather small for the app to work with, I guess. Maybe the two are similar. I assume you have an insect ID app as well and have done some research, so you may be right.
Nice pics!
Ola
Ola-
Fragile forktails are very common on the black marsh trail and I have identified them before. They are readily idenfiable by exclamation point markings on the thorax that are very distinctive. This was quite different even with a magnified higher resolution image . Thanks for continuing to follow the blog and commenting.
PS: I have several guide books specifically for damselflies. Sometimes the aps are great, sometimes not.