There is a great old church on highway 14 in the town of Rutland, Wisconsin – about 15 miles south of Madison. I had driven past it many times and always wondered about its fate. It was weathered and in disrepair – obviously not in use anymore. It looked like it had just been forgotten, […]
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM
Artists, Designers, Photographers… they all learn to see art in the things around them. We often times find ourselves drawn to the weathered, the rusty, the scratched and gouged. There’s interest there. There’s beauty in the “unattractive”. Look for beauty in the world and you will find it – another viewfinder life lesson. Canon EOS […]
It seems like there is a 15 minute window at dusk during which it is dark enough for fireflies to show up, but still light enough that you can use an exposure that doesn’t just leave them a blur in your shot. It all comes down to timing – another viewfinder life lesson. Canon EOS […]
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
A really good photographer – photographers much better than I, can take the most mundane, uninteresting objects and scenes and turn them into beautiful, interesting, anything but mundane artwork. This is a skill I would love to perfect. The photo here is of a metal overhead door at a windmill factory in Wisconsin. I flipped […]
One of the joys in life is a bottle of Wollersheim’s Prairie Fumé, some nice assorted cheeses and Breton multigrain crackers. Good stuff. From their website, Wollersheim describes the Priairie Fumé as: “Crisp, fresh, semi-dry white bursting with citrus and tropical fruit highlights. Awarded Double-Gold and Best of Class in 2004 and named #5 of […]
Canon EOS 5D Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
I hate spiders – hate ’em. Still, I saw this web hanging between two tree branches and had to get the shot. I admit I got this one the safe way – with the longest lens in my bag. But I didn’t stop there. I put on my 50mm f/1.4, held my breath and got […]
This was the last shot I took one evening chasing clouds. Over the course of a few hours, the sky turned from fluffy cumulus to nasty, beautiful, black storm clouds and back to white cumulus before dark. With a changing sky like this, it was all about position. One minute, you have the shot in […]
