Ivan Makarov Blog

Thoughts on photography, and anything else

Month: July, 2010

Family

Earlier this morning I had a chance to play with my new 10-stop ND filter “Big Stopper” from Lee. I finally got it in the mail after ordering it almost four months ago. So far I’m impressed. I’ll play more with it this weekend, and will leave a more detailed review later. This photograph is [...]

The Strangest Wedding Photos I’ve Seen

A few of you who visit my blog shoot weddings. Maybe I’m just ignorant, and all Swedish people get married like that. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like this before. They’re simply the strangest wedding photos I have seen. Check out the link below. The man who’s getting married is Henrick Zetterberg, [...]

Clouds Over Provo Utah Temple

Provo Utah Temple in July

On my last trip to Utah I had a goal to add more photographs to my set of LDS temples. It’s becoming a project with time, as I travel. With 100+ temples all over the world, It’s something I can photograph for years. I used to live close to Provo Temple when I was in [...]

Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple

I love living in California, but boy do I miss the Utah sunsets. I just got back from a family trip down to Utah. As we drove into Salt Lake Valley last week, we were welcomed with one of the best sunsets I have ever seen. It seems that most of the sky was on [...]

Troy Holden – Photographers I Admire

In the next installment of my interviews with photographers I admire, I am honored to introduce you to Troy Holden. I first saw Troy’s work on Flickr over a year ago and have seen been following it closely. He lives inside San Francisco and also works there at Twitter. It’s no wonder that most of [...]

Summer Day in San Francisco

Recently I’ve been studying the work of Michael Kenna. He has an exhibit going on in San Francisco and will do a book signing on July 24th. I’m planning on attending, but I figured since I have the time, I might as well get to know him better. I started with his A Twenty Years [...]