Goodbye 2020!
Twenty-twenty ends in a couple of days and everyone I listen to, from talking-heads on TV to the neighbors next door, have hopes for a better year in 2021. Certainly, I am hoping that vaccine […]
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Changing seasons?
[a pet peeve]
[a pet peeve]
Almost every culture in temperate latitudes has the four seasons we learnt as kids; Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Most of us, especially if we grew up in Europe, notice the seasons changing but we […]
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The Ken-Burns Effect
Anyone who has watched a documentary produced by Ken Burns will have noticed the way he brings old photographs to life. Instead of showing a large static photo on screen, he crops to a detail, […]
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Family Portraits
I read somewhere that almost 1.2 trillion photos are made each year using everything from cell-phones, digital cameras of every shape, size and complexity, to those who still insist that film is the only real […]
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October 2020 – A Baker’s Dozen*
At some time, most aspiring photographers receive the standard advice to “join a local camera club”. For many years work-related travel stopped me from regularly attending meetings at my local camera club. Retirement removed that […]
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Politics – who needs it?
I have read and listened to umpteen folks discuss how important the abortion issue is to the upcoming US election. To be honest, I feel like copping-out and deleting all electronic media sites (except those […]
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