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Tag Archives: wildlife
Monday Missive — June 22, 2020
Quotes “Inside you, there’s an artist you don’t know about.” — Rumi “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and … Continue reading
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Tagged curves, fringes, gradient maps, halos, path blur, re-size, resize, wildlife
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Monday Missive — June 1, 2020
Quotes “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” — Toni Morrison “You don’t need to explain yourself. Shoot what makes you happy.” — Sean Tucker “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what … Continue reading
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Tagged color, double exposure, landscapes, layers, lighting effects, masks, platinum, Ruth Orkin, selections, shadows, wildlife
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Monday Missive — December 9, 2019
Quotes “I see my photography as the expression of a perpetually inventive mind, and all that goes with it, including the doubts and fears, but above all the strong sentiment of never being in the right place.” — Alistair Magnaldo … Continue reading
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Tagged Alistair Magnaldo, Cig Harvey, color themes, composites, exposure blending, fine art, gradients, libraries, Links and Quotes, shadows, surrealism, Vee Spears, Warp, wildlife
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Monday Missive — September 2, 2019
Quotes “Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and … Continue reading
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Tagged architectural, black and white, BW, consistency, David Yarrow, Landscape, lens cleaning, Links and Quotes, Monochrome, Photoshop, shadows, split toning, wildlife, Woodstock
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Monday Missive — January 28, 2019
Quotes “The more personal you make your work, the more universal it becomes.” — Katrin Eismann “The enemy of art is the total lack of limitations.” — Orson Wells “I chose nature photography as a way of capturing and sharing … Continue reading
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Tagged background replace, blend modes, color, copyright, Creativity, cutouts, dehaze, ghost town, Links and Quotes, Photo essay, portraits, saturation, wildlife
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Monday Missive — January 7, 2019
Quotes “In a world filled with empty noise, the most important slots are reserved for the poets we seek to listen to, and the poet we seek to become.” — Seth Godin, December 25, 2018 “Our ideas regarding success should … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Brigman, black and white, BW, Creativity, Hakan Strand, Henri Prestes, Links and Quotes, nude, retouching, self-portrait, wildlife
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Monday Missive — December 31, 2018
Quotes “…follow the quiet nudges of your intuition.” — Ursula von Rydingsvard “…I can doubt pieces before making them, but I have to jump into the unknown to get somewhere. I have to dare to make them.” — Paola Pivi … Continue reading
Monday Missive — December 17, 2018
Quotes “Art Is Not About Understanding. Or Mastery. It is about doing and experience.” — Jerry Saltz “Hide secrets in your work.” — Jerry Saltz “Never just say, “You tell me what it is.” That’s pompous bullshit. When it comes … Continue reading
Monday Missive — December 3, 2018
Quotes “I often think of that rare fulfilling joy, when I am in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shapes and the balance all interlock so beautifully that I feel truly overwhelmed … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, black and white, bokeh, difference, Instagram, Keyezua, Links and Quotes, luminosity, wildlife
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Monday Missive — November 26, 2018
Quotes “Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma,” she once wrote. “They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.” — Diane Arbus “I’m trying to please myself; certainly that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, Creativity, curves, depth of field, Diane Arbus, focus, gorillas, Hyperfocal, Links and Quotes, Luminosity masks, napping, Photoshop, Vivian Maier, wildlife
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Monday Missive — November 12, 2018
Quotes “Pilgrim leaves crowd the air with their falling every October. The journey is always the same.” — Linda Pastan “The ritual sadness of the season is more voluptuous than joy.” — Linda Pastan “Art is, or ought to be, … Continue reading
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Tagged ACR, camera raw, color, copyright, film noir, Landscape, Lightroom, Links and Quotes, long exposure, multiple exposure, Select subject, selections, wildlife
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Monday Missive — June 25, 2018
Quotes “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” — John Cage “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged … Continue reading
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Tagged architectural, basics, color gamut, fine art, focus stacking, Landscape, Lightroom, Links and Quotes, Michael Kenna, trees, wildlife, workflow
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Monday Missive — June 18, 2018
Quotes “But Kandinsky did not intend for his theories to be prescriptive. Artmaking, he insisted, was about freedom.” — From How to Be an Artist, According to Wassily Kandinsky, by Rachel Lebowitz, Jun 12, 2017, Artsy.net “Quitting merely because you’re … Continue reading
Monday Missive — May 21, 2018
Quotes “Every day you play with the light of the universe.” — Pablo Neruda “To those of you who … have a frustrated streak of anarchy within you: f*ck the rules. Colour outside the lines. Fill your canvas with blazing … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, Fan Ho, flowers, Links and Quotes, masks, night photography, white balance, wildlife
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Monday Missive — April 2, 2018
Quotes “Critics are useful, but remember that the first to believe in your work must be you.” – Lorenzo Meloni “Sometimes there’s a unique picture whose composition possesses such vigour and richness and whose content so radiates outward from it … Continue reading
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Tagged aspect ratio, bottom-weighed mats, candids, dehaze, flash, glare, Links and Quotes, long exposure, nature photography, post processing, wildlife
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