Last week I decided to jump on the iPad bandwagon, and get the newly released Apple iPad 2. Here are some of my initial thoughts after spending most of the weekend playing with it. Why I Finally Bought One When the first iPad came out, I wasn’t all that excited about it. I felt it [...]
How do we name our photographs? This was the question recently explored by the fellow photographer G Dan Mitchell, whose blog I regularly read. Well, Dan’s question was more about how he names his own work, but the discussion in the comments went that way and made me think about my own work. There’s really three [...]
Few days ago a buddy of mine, Joshua Cripps asked on his Facebook page “What’s your favorite style of photo: canvas wraps or box-mounted prints?” As you know, I’m a big fan of canvas prints. I have them hanging all over my house – in our living room, in our bedroom, in the hallways. I love [...]
Davenport, California Another shot from one February sunset on the coast. There’s something about standing there in the water while taking shots like this that make them more personal – at least for me.
With tax season well underway, I am getting emails from fellow photographers who are asking me if they should treat their photography income as a business or not. It is of course an important decision, especially when the IRS knows that one has a photography income. For example, many of my fellow photographers participate in Flickr/Getty [...]
How about a color photograph for a change? Last Saturday was another unusually warm day for this time of the year in Northern California. The temperature was close to 80 degrees. What’s even better we had some beautiful high clouds hanging over the area. With not much to do, we heeaded over to the nearby [...]
If you know me, you know that I love photography on a stretched canvas. I like how photographs looks on the canvas material. I like how stretched canvas looks on the wall. And I like how easy it is to create it when compared to a more traditional photograph matted and hung behind the class [...]
I am sure behind the bandwagon that started at least a year ago when everyone was creating Facebook pages for their photography. Or maybe even two years ago? But I decided I’ll do it anyway. If it drives one or more of my friends to take a closer look at my photography, it’s all worth [...]