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Are your thoughts all tangled up?

January 7, 2011 By

SeaweedI’m often intrigued by seaweed, shells and other things that wash up onto the beach. Seaweed for me becomes a fascinating bunch of lines and shapes, intermingling with each other. In this case, it reminded me of my thoughts at the time: confused and tangled. (We’re all in that place, sometimes, aren’t we?)

In creating this image, it was a conscious decision to have the seaweed start off the frame and flowing from the top right. Since we read from left to right, that is opposite to the way we normally would expect see the main visual component of the image placed. This creates drama and tension. [Read more...]

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Manifesting is a Partnership

January 2, 2011 By

Barn WallI was out in country one day last autumn and walked by what at first glance was an old weathered barn. It didn’t particularly capture my interest at first. Barns don’t fascinate me. But I stayed and walked around it, determined not to let my initial negative impressions rule me.

So I started looking. Really looking. At all of what was there – even the little things. Then I started seeing. The barn wall was beautiful. Its lines and cracks were a roadmap of its life. And look here: a wonderful little blade of grass, weathered and dry, peaking out from the dark, old weathered wood of the barn wall, soaking up the sunshine! [Read more...]

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Rise Above the Clouds of Doubt

December 29, 2010 By

I had parked the car and walked along the windy path. Nice up here, I thought, but not as spectacular as I had expected. Everyone says the top of Haleakala in Maui is really special. Then I rounded the corner. What I saw was this image.

WoW! There really is a God, and this is his/her home. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I had to catch my breath! This was so absolutely divinely breathtaking. I had to just stand and look before I could even begin to compose a photo. How do you capture such incredible beauty? And even more importantly, this feeling I was experiencing? [Read more...]

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A different point of view: 3 creative techniques

August 6, 2010 By

Tulips“Why don’t we all get low down and dirty?” suggested a friend. No, he didn’t mean what you think! He meant let’s stop photographing everything from an adult height and change perspective for a while. What does the world look like from a child’s point of view? Or a dog’s or a pidgeon’s? We so take for granted that our point of view is the only one. Not only with visual information, but too often with ideas and beliefs.

Changing perspective with a camera seems easy – you just move, and voila – the scene looks different.  True, but it’s actually not easy. Just as in ife, we often get stuck on a certain way of looking at things and become fixated on a certain way of approaching things. [Read more...]

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