Eye to eye
Photography calls for a keen eye. One even says that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I’ve also heard it rumoured that painters weren’t really painting with their hands but with their eyes. And I must admit that…
Category Photography
My least-hated favourite pictures on Flickr
Beauty, it is said, is in the eyes of the beholder. I started collecting a list of my most liked pictures on Flickr and the result is not what I was expecting. When I compare it to my own favourite…
Dutch angle and Dutch tulips
I love the odd Dutch Angle in my photos. It’s a different way of framing pictures and brings a bit of change compared to trivial portrait or landscape pictures. Often, one wants to take a picture and wonders: should this…
What Animal Are You?
What Animal Are You? Have you ever been asked, ‘What kind of animal would you be? Animals are everywhere, different species, shapes and colors. So are humans. Sometimes we find animals that we relate a little too closely too, whether…
The Effect of AI on Photography (and Beyond)
Will AI take over photography? Photography has been around for more than a century, the creativity and technicality are what keeps photographers in business. What happens now that we have generative artificial intelligence applications that can create photos in seconds?…
Tilt-Shift Photography and the Miniature Effect
A miniature effect or tilt-shift, is a photography technique aimed at making the photography of, for instance, a landscape look like a scale model. Tilt-shifts change the focal plane and depth of field in a photograph. A focal plane is…
Reflection on the Reflecting
Reflections A reflection, not in the metaphorical sense but in the physical sense, is a return of light waves from a surface that produces an image as if it’s a mirror. There is also a metaphorical sense of reflecting, the…
Opportunity, Transition, or Imprisonment?
Knock-Knock Opportunity, transitions, or imprisonment? Doors, first seen in Egypt in tombs in 300 B.C., thought to be an entrance to the afterlife. Doors have been thought to represent multiple things, both metaphorically and literally. The saying, ‘one door closes…
Chinese New Year Pageant
Each year, the Chinese New Year Pageant is even more beautiful than the year before. These photos from 2015 and 2017 are no exception. The Chinese New Year is a festival that celebrates the beginning of the new year on…
You must be logged in to post a comment.