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Archive of entries posted on June 2009

My disclosure statement – June 2009.

We interrupt our regular programming for a statement from the owner with regard to the Federal Trade Commission’s pending new guidelines concerning bloggers, endorsements, advertisements, and acceptance of compensation for opinions posted on blogs. I would like to make the following public disclosure of my policies concerning this blog: The opinions, beliefs, findings, or experience [...]

Three Letter Acronyms For Success (TAS), TAS #2: GAS

OK, gentle reader, our first TAS was HAC – Have a clue . So, once you have a clue, what’s next? What’s the next thing you need to do to be successful in life and also in photography?  TAS #2 is GAS.  We’ll use the family friendly version here, which is GAH or “Give a [...]

Butterfly Rainforest – Gainsville, Florida

Description I’ve been wanting to visit the landscape photography exhibit at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art . I decided to go up yesterday, since it will only be there through the end of August. I very much enjoyed the photographs, which included several by Ansel Adams. The Florida Museum of Natural History is [...]

Three-letter Acronyms for Success (TAS), TAS#1: HAC

Well, gentle reader, here’s the grand challenge in front of us… Can I come up with a series of three letter acronyms for key ideas on how to be generally successful in life, apply them to photography, explain them in a way to make them interesting, and illustrate each with a photograph?  If I do [...]

Flower show follow up

We bought an orchid at the flower show last weekend.  There was some nice light coming through the window this morning, so I decided to photograph it. I spent a little time playing with the image in various ways. Here’s version 1: I then went back and changed the cloth background and re-photographed it. Here’s [...]

Have you ever taken your camera to a flower show?

Description If not, why not?  Flower shows can be a great place for photography.  They have plants in the prime of bloom and are often set in very scenic locations.  Lynn and I have been to a couple of Orchid shows and a Rose show here in Orlando and enjoyed each of them.  The most [...]