Endless Summer Sky
The sky and water stretch on endlessly in this photograph from the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
Post Processing Stained Glass Photos – Part 3
Last week, I started a technical series of how to post process photos of stained glass windows. In Part 1, I went over taking and selecting which photo to use, making adjustments in Adobe Lightroom, and moving the picture to Adobe Photoshop for more complex work. Part 2 showed how to correct for distortion (i.e., keystone…
Post Processing Stained Glass Photos – Part 2
In my last post, I began a technical series of how I processed some photos that I took of stained glass. Click here for Part 1, which explains how I selected the photo and began processing in Adobe Lightroom. Click here to see the original post with all the photos. At the end of the last post,…
Post Processing Stained Glass Photos – Part 1
A few weeks ago, I posted stained glass photos that I took at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church in downtown Bar Harbor, Maine. Everyone ooh’d and aah’d appropriately, then one of you stuck your hand up and said, “How did you do that?” It turns out she has a number of stained glass pictures taken during…
My One Thing – Storytelling My Life
Pick a direction, start marching down that path and see how you like it. Time brings clarity and if you find you don’t like it, you can always change your mind. It’s your life. – Gary Keller & Jay Papasan, The One Thing The Short Version After reading “The One Thing” by Gary Keller and…
Observations On Autumn
Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg,…
Stained Glass in Maine
During my recent weekend in Maine, my daughter and I went into St. Saviour’s Episcopoal Church in Bar Harbor. She waited patiently as I oohed and aahed over the stained glass, then proceeded to take a bunch of pictures. According to its website, the church is the “oldest, largest and tallest public building on Mt. Desert…
Working A Day Job – Part 1
“I find that having a day job is one of the best things that in the world that could happen to me,” he once said. “It introduces discipline and regularity into one’s life, I am just as free as I want to be and of course I have nothing to worry about the money.” Wallace…
Setting Expectations for Enjoyment
One thing that helps nurture my creativity while traveling is to decide ahead of time what my expectations are. I recheck them nearly every day while I’m on my trip. Did I do what I wanted? If not, do I still want to do that? If so, what do I need to do to enjoy…
Living The Seasons 