Ivan Makarov Blog

Here’s an image I made few weeks ago while shooting sunrise at Treasure Island together with Steve Landeros. There’s something about quiet big city that is so calming.  

My apologies if you’re a regular visitor to this blog. I’ve been redoing the blog and how it’s structured, including design and posts. Some of the content is going to disappear as well. The easiest way I know of how to work on the changes is in the live mode. So bear with me. I promise, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Las Vegas Nevada Temple

And the winner of Uprinting giveaway is Dellory Matthews. I’ll contact you separately. Congratulations!

I have not been posting much because I have been busy with the new job I started last month. I also stopped processing all other work until I finish processing the images from the Concert Hall. In a few weeks I am planning on releasing a new folio (a set of images) with the set [...]

I’m still posting these on Flickr. I’m going to create a full set out of them that will be printed and sold as a Folio, and also downloadable in PDF. Stay tuned.

The much awaited update to Lightroom 3 is now available from Adobe. Judging by the list of bugs they fixed, it’s a major update. I’m downloading it right now. I am hoping it works as well as they describe, because I was frustrated with how buggy and slow Lightroom 3 has been for me. So [...]

Pacific Tank Farm, Reno, Nevada