Category: Assignments

A Look Ahead…

Just a few news nuggets today of some things that have been going on and simmering on the proverbial stove for the past few weeks.  Many of these are now starting to bubble up to the surface, so here’s a…

Five Elements of Control: #4 Context

Have you ever seen something that looks so out of place that it catches your eye?  Well catch it with your lens too, because contextual positioning of subjects in interesting or unusual/unexpected areas creates visual interest.  This is what I…

The Benefits of the Back Story

We all know that our photography at its best can stand on its own – no jazzy or snazzy music, no cheesy frames or doohicky slideshows.  However, some of our best (and worst) photos also come with some pretty incredible…

The first ever Comment Contest!

After a short (and unexpected) break from blogging yesterday, here’s a Friday Free-For-All for you! Here’s where reader input is going to be what makes or breaks the content – that’s right, I am putting it all on the reading…

How to build a star tracker!

Rather than go through another hardware review today, I thought I would share a different kind of hardware with you – the DIY kind!  Over the weekend I embarked on a little project on building a device to track stars…

Let me count the ways…

The age old phrase of “let me count the ways” seemed like as good a theme as any to announce the newest contest from the blog here for the Learning Digital Photography podcast.  I just got word from the folks…

Come on Ride the Train

It’s somewhat fitting this week that yours truly is making serious use of the mass transit in Denver because a project that has finally come to fruition is a photo-themed shoot of trains.  I’ve always found them quite interesting, and…

A Dose of Inspiration

For those that are keeping up via feed reader, you may have noticed some Flickr additions over the weekend.  As the “What’s This?” arc came to completion, I thought it might be fun to compile all the images into their…

New Years Resolutions…

We all do it – set some sort of expectation of what we want/need/should do for the upcoming year.  Whether we admit it or not, everybody thinks at some point about doing something new, better, different, or whatever.  What usually…