Adventure, Travel, Photography, Culture
What the heck is pre-visualization? This term was first popularized in the early 20th century by some of the great landscape photographers shooting their beloved large format view cameras. Changing environmental conditions and the fleeting moment required these photographers to have an exacting knowledge of the behavior and magical alchemy of light, lens, film, filter,…
I grew up with the vinegary smell of stop bath so when I made the switch to digital I swore I was done with film. Yet here I am today, prepared to take the plunge back into the world of analog imaging. Why? Maybe I’m just being nostalgic but it seems like the analog process feels more…
It has been a busy month here at Curious Lizard. We are always active traveling, photographing, researching, exploring and printing. Our biggest challenge, and I think the biggest challenge of most people active in this medium, is trying to say more with our photographs. Hard work and hard efforts have borne fruit. In regional competitions we won…
This Roman era Nabatean city is one of the most photographed in the world. What do you think?
How do you see? What angle of view represents your artistic “vision?” Recently I was having this discussion with some friends and I learned that we, as humans, have a visual field equal to about a 43mm full frame lens. This is why 35mm and 50mm lenses feel so comfortable. However, angle of view does not…
The Nikon Df, introduced at the end of 2013 sits calmly in the eye of the storm while megapixel wars and mirrorless insurgencies swirl around it. Still the smallest and lightest full frame DSLR and heir to the vast legacy of Nikkor and F mount Zeiss glass, the Df goes about it’s work taking stunning…
Landscape has been a real hit and miss pursuit for me and I want to be a better landscape photographer. It’s not for lack of trying. I’ve logged countless hours in classes, workshops and in the field trying to learn this aspect of the photographers craft. Not to be deterred, Christy and I signed up…
Tokyo is a wondrous city, full color and light and vibrant energy and lots of people. It is a also a city that honors it’s past and traditions as we experienced at the Nakajima-no-ochaya teahouse in the family garden the the Tokugawa Shogun. Tokyo Teahouse and Tokyo.
Tomorrow is the deadline for the 2012 Zeiss Photo contest and I have selected this photograph as my entry. I captured this image in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem over the holidays. A lengthly line had formed at the tomb of Jesus and I noticed a candle off to one side. A…
The fog is thick here coming off the water in Nova Scotia. We’re supposed to be out on that water today and I can see from my vantage point that it’s going to be cold and damp, not unlike the fishing excursions I found myself on with my father and brother when we used to…