“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
~ Andy Warhol
Archive of posts tagged jan timmons
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Red!
After shooting (without killing) a lusty red amaryllis plant yesterday and posting to my RedBubble sales account, I began to ponder.
Does the sharp detail err on the side of masculine? A quick perusal of others’ photos reveals shallow depth-of-field photos, blurred intentionally using the Orton effects, and then covered by a layer of texture. [...]
Intimations of a landscape
A foggy day —
”…I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos…”
– Wallace Stevens
I don’t eat my friends
“Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Take that, Sarah.
Pure writing flow
“There are millions of distractions that the modern day writer has to put up with in order to get their ideas out there. Twitter, Facebook, your feed reader, they’re all conspiring to distract you from getting your writing down on the page.”
Thus begins an essay on what the author terms a “method of pure writing [...]
Another gardening session
© photo by Jan Timmons
Testing ebooks and iPhones
Photographer and author David duChemin recently released three ebooks targeted toward helping beginner-to-intermediate photographers.
Two ebooks cover basic photography principles and the third focuses on composition. I plan to purchase one entitled “10″ to test a recent discovery.
I discovered that I concentrate better and speed-read less when I read a book on my iPhone. Despite [...]
Young and shy, and good web writing
Young buck moose walks near suburban school. So cute, young, and shy.
Warning: no paragraph transition ahead.
I discovered a well-written and well-developed website by accident. The “About” page of the NSWA.org website has a clever lead and an easy, neighborly narrative. The style almost lured me to send money, despite a distance of several [...]
Environmental portraiture
One of three construction workers repairing exterior of a house after a porch fire. Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm, 18mm, f/7.1, 1/160sec, manual exposure, -0.3ev, ISO640, monopod, no strobe and no Photoshop. Converted from 14-bit RAW to jpeg using Capture NX2.1. Shot for an exercise at RedBubble.com.
Wikipedia.org has this to say about an environmental portrait:
“An [...]