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february 4, 2010
| I haven't been taking as many pictures in the last few weeks as I've been used to for a long time. I broke my primary lens - an 18-55 kit lens. I've got a temporary super-glue fix, but while doing that I could feel just how cheap and fragile that lens is.
I have taken some. And I've edited a lot of older images. So I've been busy with it in some aspects.
One way I keep my heart in it is to send out a photo of the week. Usually it's just one image, sent as an attachment, high resolution. Sometimes it's a couple of images, or a link to a private gallery. It's a gift to a group of friends. They can use it however they want.
The way I use it is to explore things, to see just how beautiful an image the world and I can create. Sometimes it's to tell the story behind the image, or behind the making of the image.
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| November 5, 2009
| the work of condensation
| sigmund freud's 'the interpretation of dreams' is the presentation of
freud's astonishing discoveries of how the mind and soul work in dreams. whatever produces dreams, it is profoundly visual. it is not primarily logical or linear. it presents a deep, three dimensional, interpenetrating tableau of emotions. it is also profoundly verbal.
one characteristic of this visual and verbal communicator is that it presents in highly condensed form - images and meanings have double and triple and quadruple significance, blended and stacked and interpenetrating.
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| October 12, 2009
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| October 9, 2009 Friday
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| The eastern sky at sunset, around Missoula, August, 2006.
This photo links to a slideshow of outdoor shots in Montana.
Cheers.
Danny
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October 6, 2009 Tuesday
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| These are out and about my neighborhood, on the west side of lower Scottsdale Road - around McKellips.
I biked by the trailhead that Laura and I walked on just a couple of weeks after I moved to Phoenix. Who knew then that I'd end up living right near here.
The weather has cooled down tremendously - about twenty degrees from just about a week ago. Makes a huge difference in how I experience the city.
In the top photo I used shallow depth of field (lowest f-stop possible - in this case, 3.5), with the foreground subject 'haloed' by a background subject that is out of focus and of a distinctly different quality of light than the foreground subject.
The bottom photo... hmmm. I wanted to make something of this, but it seems too busy - too many candidates for the focal point or something. I don't quite know. But I tried some things with it, including jacking up the temperature.
Make sure to click on either one of the photos to see them both displayed in the nice flickr slideshow.
Cheers.
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October 5, 2009 Monday
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| I'm hustling these photos to D'Lish, a coffe place up the street. I think these are better than what they've got in there now. My posted price: come to D'Lish and find out.
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October 1, 2009 Thursday
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September 28, 2009
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September 14, 2009
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The New Space
| On the left: Me and the machine.
On the right: The parlor.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. Until further notice, then, the photos and words that come to my journal and galleries are being projected from this space on East Marigold Lane. But always, it's not where I am, it's who I am.
Same goes for you.
Cheers.
dj
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September 12, 2009 Saturday
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| Somewhere in Italy in February, 1978.
I took this shot with a Kodak Instamatic. The image above is a processed version of a scan of the original print.
My family was living in Tehran, Iran, at the time, and I was in Italy for a high school wrestling tournament (I placed third in my weight class - 98 pounds). We trained for two days, wrestled for two days, then traveled for seven days, from Vicenza in the north down to Rome. I spent time in Venice, Florence, Livorno, and Rome. I celebrated my sixteenth birthday while in Livorno. We stayed on an Army base, and went to a teen club dance that night.
Kodak Instamatic images were only for photo documentation. There was no artistic value to them. But I have my ways.
I'm still expecting to visit Italy again.
Cheers.
Danny
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September 7, 2009 Monday
| This is the sort of photography I love. It makes Zagreb look so beautiful and enticing. It's the quality - the look and feel - I hoped to capture in these photos of Amsterdam.
When I first took up a camera in 1978 or so, I dreamed of being a (famous) photojournalist or fashion photographer. It's not too late.
Ciao for now.
Danny
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September 5, 2009 Saturday
The photo below was taken at the Desert Botanical Garden - like the previous photo - and is a mixed success. I really like the colors - rich and vibrant. But I wasn't quite able to bring out the bee on the flower like I wanted to. Unfortunately, I had the camera set to produce high-resolution jpg files instead of RAW files. I always shoot in RAW, but the session before the Botanical Garden filled up my memory card while I was still shooting, so I deleted some images and reduced the file size by changing to jpegs.
Still a nice, pleasing shot.
Cheers.
Danny
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September 4, 2009 Friday
Ahoy!
I've been behind my camera quite a bit less than usual, and I'm not sure why. I have been busier than usual with supporting myself - more hours put into the database project I've been working on since February, and several days of teaching as well. But I've lost a certain spark, a hunger. Living in Phoenix in the summer for the first time may have something to do with it - it's just not a climate hospitable to humans this time of year.
Nevertheless, I have done some shooting recently. Last weekend I was at the Desert Botanical Garden with Pam, and shot her and the garden. The morning was hot, and we dashed from shady spot to shady spot.
I am formulating a plan to offer Lightroom classes here in Phoenix. I teach database classes at a computer training company here, and they've offered to let me use their computer lab rent-free. Lightroom would be a great application to teach, especially because I love using it so much.
Talk to y'all soon!
Danny
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