Ivan Makarov Blog

Thoughts on photography, and anything else

Month: January, 2010

New Blogs from Lenswork’s Brooks Jensen

While downloading the latest podcasts from Brooks Jensen, the publisher of my favorite photography related magazine Lenswork, I discovered that he recently started new photography related blogs, thus jumping in with both feet into the world of blogging. Up to this point Brooks produced free podcasts on creativity  and on photography as an art medium [...]

My Review of New Book from Don Smith, Refined Vision

It’s one of the busiest times of the year for me in my non-photography related endeavors, but I’ll try to share something at least once a week to keep my mind sane and somewhat guilt-free. Why is it that January is the most popular time to break the new year’s resolution? In case you missed [...]

Charity Auction Results

The auction for one of my prints that I wrote about earlier is over, and I’m happy to report that the print was sold to Dylin from Madison, WI (who goes by Dylin Holden on Flickr), who donated his winning bid, $200, to a great charity organization Shelter Box, that has three separate operational centers [...]

Auctioning A Print for Haiti Relief Effort

I’m auctioning a 16×20 print of this photo I took at Pebble Beach back in 2007 to help the relief efforts for Haiti earthquake with all the proceeds donated to charity of your choice. The bidding began, and will end at 11.59pm on Sunday, January 17th. For details, click here.

Looking into 2010

The year barely started, and I’m already slacking on one of my resolutions. Human nature, I suppose. Thanks to all those who contributed to my “Best of 2009″ post and shared their thoughts on which shot they liked the best. Now that I got 2009 behind me, it’s time to look into 2010, and set [...]

Wrapping up 2009

Before I outline some of the goals I have for my photography for 2010, I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite images from 2009. As I share these, you can see what kind of things I found myself photographing during this past year. It’s been an interesting year for me. In terms [...]