Category: Updates

In Blog #6 I was a bit embarrassed to admit that when I was highly emotional about getting a Teton Valley shot of the fog, I didn’t do a very good job of thinking straight.  I may be exaggerating a bit but as I develop my photography, I am fairly relaxed most of the time while getting landscape shots and I often feel “part of the environment.” I am finding that as I grow as a photographer, I take time to think about what I want my image to “say” rather than rushing to take a bunch of photos.  Early in my retirement I visited a number of National Park.  I seldom took time to feel part of the environment and rarely took time reflecting on what I wanted to share with my photos – my approach wasn’t exactly click-click-click but it wasn’t emotionally thoughtful either. Continue reading "Does Emotion Help? If it is Under Control !"

First let me start by apologizing for not putting up a post for more than a month.  Like many of you, the only excuse I have for slowing down my life is covid-19, and it doesn’t seem like a very good explanation.  I’ve had plenty of “available time” but I didn’t seem to have the appropriate motivation to use that time constructively.  But I’m slowly getting over this hurdle and I must admit that the opening of the National Park and a bit more photography seems to be helping.  So, can focusing on taking photographs actually improve my general motivation?  Maybe.  I’m feeling better and glad to get out and take some photographs of the beauty around me.  And I just had a learning experience I’d like to share with you. Continue reading "Does Emotion Help or Get in the Way?"

I hope all of you are safe and healthy and finding a way to stay focused on some of the positive aspects in life.  But I realize that ain’t always easy.  For the last few weeks most of us have probably been following a social distancing formula, depending on where you live.  And we may have found it difficult at time to be positive. For those of us who don’t live in an urban area we can go just about anywhere outside, but we still may be missing our photo opportunities due to the closing of National and State Parks.  But all of us can always go into our photo library and do some LR or Photoshop exploration.  In the last Blog (“What is Intra-Personal Competition”) I suggested that you go to your photo library to compare new photos to some photos you took a few years ago.  What did you find?  Are your photos today better than they were a few years ago?  Can you be honest with yourself about the differences, or are you super critical or overly positive of your progress? Continue reading "What Feedback is Most Helpful?"