One of the photography skills I want to work on is learning to use fill flash. My Fujifilm camera has a setting in which it shoots two sequential images, one without the flash and one with the flash. I recently decided to play around with it while shooting some cactus plants in bright sunlight; in some cases, I couldn’t see […]
Welcome back to Memory Monday after a two-week break! My next series features a collection of black and white prints dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. My mom discovered these prints a few months back, and I organized them into a photo album for her. Most of the pictures were apparently shot by my dad while he was […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Any kind of camera or photos of photographers. Go through your photo archives and see what photos you have that fits the current week’s challenge, or better yet grab your camera and take a new photo! ENJOY and have FUN. I went deep into my archives on this one! These photos […]
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Kind and caring. I find taking photos of kind moments are fun to capture. Let’s see how creative you can be on for this week’s challenge. Have fun with this week’s challenge. pics
The theme of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Happy. I find taking photos of happy moments are fun to capture. Let’s see how creative you can be on for this week’s challenge.
Wesco Colored Slides were advertised in Popular Photography magazines during the 1940s and 1950s as an easy way to visit faraway beauty spots or “fillers” for personal holiday slideshows. The scenes were shot by professional photographers, so they’re unquestionably well done. Sadly, my current slide scanner isn’t able to do justice to the colors in these scenes, although I’ve done […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 21, 2018. For this week’s photo challenge, try your hand at a different type of portrait… Explore the use of anonymity to express both that which is common to all of us and the uniqueness that stands out even when the most obvious parts of us are hidden. Just as […]
In the midst of some unsettled weather yesterday afternoon, we had a cold rainstorm (in which I got drenched walking home from work!) and even a little bit of snow. Snow isn’t completely unheard of at this elevation (240 ft/73 m above sea level) but it’s certainly a rare event. In fact, at first I thought it was merely hail; […]
The famous race of the Confidence and the Queen City, while not featured by gunfire, nearly ended in flames so far as the latter vessel was concerned. The Confidence, of California Steam, burned Philadelphia coal, imported at some expense; the Queen City, which belonged to the Marysville outfit, depended upon the cheaper and more plentiful local supply of wood. So […]