Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Fountain Garden at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Cotswolds Region, Oxfordshire, England

A couple legal tidbits worth noting: First; Are you an author? Do you have a book of your photography or writing that’s been published before Janunary 5th, 2009? If so, you may want to look over the following pdf about the Google Books Class [...]

This weekend, thanks to my mom, I got to spend part of a beautiful Spring Saturday afternoon in a dark movie theater, along with my wife & son, watching the new Disney Nature Film, EARTH. Narrated by James Earl Jones (Darth Vader to my son) the movie has the same tone that many of [...]

Few people would argue about the influence that Ansel Adams has had on modern landscape photography. Some people may not appreciate his photography as much as others, but I have always been a fan of his work. I still remember to this day going into the city with my parents as a young teenager to [...]

Pictures: Asilomar State Beach, Pacific Grove, Monterey Peninsula, California. The first is a straight RAW file; the second represents my standard image processing, which took less than 30 seconds, and the third is a “hyper-processed”, highly-saturated image like might often be seen on Flickr.
Processing note; the only other manipulation to these images was [...]

Picture: Tourist family photos being taken by mom while kids stand at the center of the Four Corners Monument, on the Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado borders.

I just heard this on the news… It could only have happened in the days before GPS. Yes, I’ve been there. Yes, I now feel ripped off and [...]

Most here will know that my recent recovery period allowed me a chance to catch up on some reading, both online and offline. I want to take a quick moment to pass along a few items that have caught my interest in the online world. I hope that if you’re not familiar with these, that [...]

Photographer’s Forum Magazine is currently having it’s Spring Photo Contest, and it’s only open to Amateur Photographers. I mention this because I’d actually was a finalist winner in one of their Spring photo contests years ago. Current deadline is April 20, 2009 for the early bird entries, and May 11, 2009 for the final entry [...]

Photo: School of fish. Courtesy of Vancity Allie cc/attribution license via Flickr.

I’ve had a lot of down time lately as I’ve previously expressed. I’ve used some of that time reading over a variety of photo forums. One thing I’ve noticed is a lot of discussions about “How do I…?”, generally referring to something about a [...]

My recovery continues; I still can’t hold a camera, but it is getting easier to type. Thankfully, I’ve been putting some of my typing time to good use, updating areas to my weblog. If you find them useful, I hope you’ll feel free to bookmark them or pass them along as you see fit.
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