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Gujarat,India 2009 A family carries their harvest across the bridge. The women were smiling and laughing when they saw us. They walked ahead of the man. Most likely he had helped them heft their headloads to their heads and he … Continue reading
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Ngorongoro Crater, Kenya, 1998 A zebra drinks from a pond in the Ngorongoro Crater. You can tell that he has had enough as he is letting water spill from his mouth. This is typical of horses and apparently zebras, too. … Continue reading
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Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan 2012 I talked about “filters” in yesterday’s blog and showed how adding a filter to an uninteresting photo could give it a patina of mystery. Today’s photo has an interesting subject: a man retrieving baked dumplings from … Continue reading
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Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan 2012 Adding your own filters (shots of texture and color) to a boring image can turn it into something that demands a longer look. It takes effort to make the filters and not every filter will work its … Continue reading
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Shwe Yaunghwe Kyaung Monastery, Burma 2010 He was the perfect monk to pose for us. He was in a hurry, though. The master had designated him to start the tea for breakfast and we were making him late. He was torn between pleasing … Continue reading
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Cambodia 2011 Where to put the horizon line? The “law” that says it shouldn’t be mid-image has been emblazoned on my brain and if I’ve done that (and I still do occasionally) I’ll crop the least interesting part of the image. … Continue reading
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Near Merzouga, Morocco: 1990’s It was difficult to get these colors “true”, but I finally managed using Image>Adjustments>Color Balance. The dunes change color according to the time of day going from a pale beige to yellow to pink in the … Continue reading
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Moscow, 2009 Something I read recently: When you shoot a reflection, the reflection must be as sharp as the object that is reflected. Yikes! When I read that, I wondered if any of my reflection shots met that standard. But, … Continue reading
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Long-Ji China 2005 Our hotel window overlooked these rice terraces. Keren Su, our tour leader, arranged for this woman to simulate harvesting rice. Those rows of yellow are rice stalks that have been cut and are now drying in preparation for threshing. … Continue reading
