Using Elements of Composition to Focus our Viewer’s Attention
As visual artists and photographers, we often try to focus or draw the viewer's attention to certain areas or elements of our image. For example, in the above photograph, I…
As visual artists and photographers, we often try to focus or draw the viewer's attention to certain areas or elements of our image. For example, in the above photograph, I…
The wholesale produce market in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India is in an ancient,  cavernous building filled with vendors along narrow aisles. The produce arrives at the market by truck packed in huge…
Up, up and away My beautiful, my beautiful balloon The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon             …
Most of us are a curious sort. Always wondering what's next, what's over there, what's around the curve in the road. Some of us are "Big Picture"Â ponderers. What is beyond…
A hand pulled rickshaw is probably one of the oldest forms of taxi service. Although using humans as beasts of burden is illegal throughout most of the world, including India, rickshaw…
The so called "Blue Hour" is probably the best time of day to photograph cityscapes. The blue hour is that short period of time after the sun has set but…
A variety of blown glass shapes stacked on top of each other and back lit resulting in a beautiful, kaleidoscopic abstract of shapes and colors. There is much more glass to be…
Feathers...what incredible creations. They are light and delicate and yet so strong. Feathers keep their owners warm and dry and enable most to fly...how cool is that! We humans seem to…
When many of us think of changes in seasons we think of four more or less distinct seasons, but in much of the tropics there are only two: wet and…
When I think of peaceful I think of the ancient rice fields of Bali. Idyllic, serene, peaceful and more. A spiritualness too. The cycle of planting and harvesting of the rice fields is a…