Below are several experiments with making kaleidoscope images in Photoshop. Yes, I know this is a bit of a gimmick. So sue me. There are plenty of gimmicks in photography these days. They’re all wonderful or terrible, depending on who…
The First is one of our local banks. They hired me to take pictures of a local potter, Bridgette Kinney. The product of that will be in the mail in the next couple of weeks but Bridgette has a PDF…
I went back to Pennsylvania for Christmas. Almost ready to leave, I asked my two nephews if I could take their pictures. Quentin was cool with it. Here he is.
I took this picture years ago and it continues to be a favorite, for me and others. My mother has asked me to print another round of notecards with it for her. And she’s just heard from an old friend…
The Camden Harbormaster posted on Facebook: Daily Def: “SLUSH FUND”-slush was the unpromising name for fat scraped off the top of the barrels of meat. The crew found it perfect for greasing masts to make sail hoisting easier and for…
I prefer Acadia in the off season. From October to about May, it can feel like I have it all to myself. Wandering that magical mile from Otter Cliffs to Thunder Hole with almost nobody else around is a real…
Went out to Lake Megunticook Sunday afternoon. It was incredibly warm. The remnants of Hurricane Ida were just leaving us. It was very wet and very calm. I was almost completely alone. [slidepress gallery=’fernaldsneck’]
This picture is the wallpaper on my computer screen and almost everyone who sees it wants to know how it was made. The word photography means, literally, drawing with light. But “painting with light” is a technique to add a…
I mentioned to my friend Ann Marie the other day that I’d paddled to Mark Island. “What’s that rock?” she asked me. I asked her which rock, but I sort of knew. I had stopped to photograph the rock. It’s…
I guess I should not confess that this is a mistake. I did not intend for the shutter speed to be so slow. But there’s something to be said for realizing that a mistake can make something nice, too.
Golly, I sure wish I could say yes. But that’s really only a nostalgic response, not a practical one. I haven’t shot any film in, probably, two years, and I don’t plan to anytime soon. I loved film, I really…