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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Every once in a while, I have a reason to dig into my archive of negatives and slides to hunt for a picture. I received an e-mail from a gentleman in Iowa looking to purchase prints of lighthouses. He supplied a list of the specific ones he is looking for and I happen to have photos of five of the lighthouses on his list. The one I had to work hardest to find was this one. It's the lighthouse at Cape...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've seen these kind of shots done before and wanted to try them out, but didn't have the equipment or the knowledge of how to do it. Thanks to the interwebs , I picked up the knowledge part. Thanks to seriously getting into portrait and wedding photography , I picked up the equipment part. There's quite an involved process in getting smoke shots, from lighting (two strobes firing simultaneously from...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Fun with a wishbone left over from the Thanksgiving festivities. Yeah, it's kinda small -- we served cornish game hens with a wild rice stuffing. Mmmmm. Anyway, I thought I could do some photographic-type stuff with the bone and try out a new set of flash grids in the process. The photo above has the flash set at 1/32 power with a 1/8 inch grid attached. The grid creates a strong directional light...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Have a Happy Thanksgiving. There's a lot to be thankful for. Photograph © 2009 James Jordan.
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
In that order, in diminishing degrees of focus. Late afternoon light (which comes dreadfully early this time of year). Shot with 50mm f1.8 lens. Love the shallow depth of field this lens provides. Photograph © 2009 James Jordan.
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
If you haven't noticed, today's image is a little different than what's usually posted here. Or is it? The photographs I make and share with the world are not so much depictions of things -- they are depictions of the feelings created by viewing those things within a particular setting. At least that's the goal I have in mind when setting out to create pictures. The photo above started as a contrasty,...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
An autumn tree situated on a glacial kame, Glacial Park, Ringwood, Illinois. When I was in art school, one way the instructors taught us how to make better choices regarding our illustrations was to force us to use a limited pallete of colors. It helped instill some discipline when confronted with hundreds of possible choices regarding color and prevented too much of a reliance on any one particular...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I wonder if Stephen Covey is a photographer? The second of his 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is "Begin with the end in mind." I find that I employ that nugget of advice practically every time I trip the shutter on my camera. I usually have a very well developed idea of the finished version of every frame I snap. That vision guides my choice of settings on my camera and the frame that...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
More photographs from Glacial Park, north of Ringwood in McHenry County, Illinois. If you're wondering why I placed the subject where I did in the frame, the answer is simple -- I didn't have much choice. A brisk, chilly wind tossed the seed head back and forth. Since I was using a telephoto lens, I had to chase the pods back and forth, snapping as I went and hoping for a good shot. As it turned out,...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
"Great minds run in the same channel." Or is it "All fools think alike?" No matter. Over at Listing Through Life , Roger is posting photos from Glacial Park that were taken the same weekend that my wife and I visited. Rog shot up the place on Saturday, I ionized a memory card there on Sunday. We took our photos in basically the same weather and lighting conditions -- overcast. Roger...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Over the weekend, my wife and I hiked a couple of the trails at Glacial Park , just north of Ringwood, Illinois, near the Wisconsin border. The area has been described as "biological eye candy" and I can see why. The park is a mixture of rolling kames, prairie, ponds, kettles, bogs and oak savannahs. Nippersink Creek meanders its way through the northern reaches of the park. In early autumn...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
As I think back on those months of the year when I struggle the most, photographically speaking, I've concluded that the worst photography month for me is November. Maybe it has to do with it being an in-between time -- the splendor and glory of autumn is over and it's still a while before snow arrives to blanket the barren landscape. My November pictures just kind of sit there, unadorned, blah. I've...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A massive flock of starlings circling over a marsh at the Pingree Grove Forest Preserve near Pingree Grove in Kane County, Illinois. The vortex of black birds twisted and turned the entire time my wife and I were there, making a loud racket while so doing. I took several shots each time the avian tornado approached our position, and this one best establishes the density of the flock. Just glad they...
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Points of Light (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
More abstract nature pics from Pingree Grove Forest Preserve near Pingree Grove and Gilberts, Illinois. The area near these two northern Illinois communities has seen an explosion of new subdivisions going up in recent years. Glad to see that part of the plan was to preserve a few hundred acres of open space in the middle of it. And I'm sure the wildlife that was displaced by all of the construction...
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kerwonspeak | 07/09/2009
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