“Shades of Spring” Art Show On NOW at Black Rock Center for the Arts!

I’m heading over to Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland in an hour.  I’ve got show duty today until 12:30 pm for the spring show (“Shades of Spring”) of the Art League of Germantown.  (I’m a member.)  Feel free to stop by!  The artists’ reception is tomorrow, so I’ll also be there [...]

Anonymous Dancer, 2009 Gugak Festival

2009 Gugak Festival, Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall. Photo (c) John Jacks.

One of my photography students, John, brought me a gift at his lesson last weekend: a gorgeous photograph mounted on a bamboo panel of a performer at the 2009 Gugak Festival in Virginia, organized by the the Korean National University of Arts.

I love this [...]

HDR Software: Photomatix vs. HDR PhotoStudio 2

(Tip: If you don’t know what HDR is, then check out my blog post, HDR: Love It or Hate It.)

I read a review by Debbie Grossman in the April 2010 issue of PopPhoto Magazine of Unified’s HDR PhotoStudio 2 software.  Overall, she highly recommends HDR PhotoStudio 2, saying that it has a much simpler interface, is [...]

New Wedding Album Line - Brilliant Albums

 

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My new Brilliant Line Wedding Albums complement my existing Genuine Leather Album lineup for all of you beautiful brides and grooms out there!  Brilliant Albums feature covers with a unique metallic appearance, due to the protective pearlescent coating on [...]

Mali: The Makings of a Pot

I recently returned from Mali, where my friend, Melanie, and I had the opportunity to visit the pottery village of Kalabougou, a 45-minute motorized canoe ride down the Niger River from Segou.  Click here to see the complete photo story, Mali: The Makings of a Pot.  To download a pdf on buying fine art photography, [...]

Playing around in Photoshop: Day for Night

I was playing around with OnOne Plug-In Suite 5 on my Utah Parks Road Trip Day 12 photo of Landscape Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.  Check out this look.  It’s called “Day for Night.”  I like it… 

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Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, Utah

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 12: Arches National Park and Behind-The-Rocks, Moab, aka Day of the Fruitless Search for Mystical Tukuhnikivats

We’re exshausted, having spent the afternoon on a wild goose – or should I say wild arch – chase through the Moab wilderness.  We were searching for that most mystical of arches, Tukuhnikivats, the unpronouncable.  No one we asked had ever heard of it, not the park rangers at Arches National Park nor the woman who [...]

24 Hours in Dakar, Senegal

Transitions Abroad has published another one of my photo stories, this one of my late 2008 trip par hasard through Dakar, Senegal, which ended up being my best trip in 10 years!  I felt like I was back in Peace Corps again.  The story goes like this:

During recent travels to Guinea, I experienced [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 11: Arches National Park, aka The Day I Almost Died

OK, perhaps I’m being a little dramatic.  But still, this is the day that I’ll never forget.  The day my Yaktrax fell into the abyss.  The day I was stuck way out in the funnel.  The day I was too paralyzed to move forward, too petrified to move back. 

Like always, it all started out in an [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 6: Zion National Park

View from the Watchman Trail at dusk, Zion National Park, Utah