Another shot from my Gunnison outing. The sun wasn’t where I needed it to be, hence that damned flare. Anyway, I did three takes on this one, just for fun. Above I applied a posterization filter. Below is a light film grain take. And at the bottom is the basic, unmessed-with version.
Read moreI bought my first camera maybe three months ago – a Nikon D3100. A nice, entry-level DSLR that I could learn on and maybe even take a few good shots with. At the time, I knew diddley about photography other than a) I liked it, and b) I wanted to know how to do it myself. Specifically, at that time
Read moreOn the previous post Dawn and Andy Beel had some interesting advice for cropping the image. I did it that way originally because my goal as a shooter is to some day match Andreas Feininger’s epic Route 66, Arizona high-sky masterpiece. Probably I’m not there yet. So here’s their suggested crop. I like it.
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Read moreIf tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.
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This time last week Colorado was enduring epic wildfires and “Fire Danger: Extreme” seemed an understatement. We were seeing temps in excess of 100 degrees and one day the humidity dipped as low as three percent. So much for the “earth is burning” portion of the show. Now we’re three or four days into the great floods foretold in the
Read moreOur real photographer, the estimable Lisa Wright, is on vacation, so I ventured out last night, new camera in hand, to see if I could capture something vaguely interesting for our readers. As luck would have it, they were showing A Star is Born, the 1937 classic starring Janet Gaynor, on the lawn in front of the old Elitch Gardens
Read moreI’m a sucker for chalk art, so I always look forward to the Denver Chalk Art Festival. I’m apparently not the only one, either, as the crowd shot below suggests. The crowds seem to be getting larger each year, too, and I suppose it’s easy to understand why. June in Denver, Larimer Square, fantastic artists – what’s not to love,
Read moreWe recently did a three-part ArtSunday series on the work of Denver photographer Greg Thow and I know many of you were as blown away by his shot of Colorado and the 5280 as we were.
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