The word “eulogy” comes from the Greek, eulogia, which means praise. Logia comes from logos, or “word.”
In our culture, we deliver eulogies after someone has died. I’ve long been annoyed by the practice. Why would we want to wait until someone is gone to praise all the wonderful things about them?
This annoys me partly because I’ve [...]
Lesson 3, Assignment 1 of Jodie Coston’s Free Online Photography Course at Morguefile.
Wide Angle
Zoom
These are the kinds of scenes that make you glad you brought your camera.
And shots like these are fun when you learn how to pay attention to your surroundings.
And a 12x zoom makes you brave enough to take shots like this one of a wasp on some wildflowers.
But there’s an unexpected drawback to [...]
I’m happy to post an update to the Borders.com issue I griped about in previous posts.
I finally received a notice from Borders about their new website. And I received a ”valuable online coupon” with a link to a page that informs me, among other things, that I can now redeem my Borders’ Rewards online.
Good job. Now I’m going to [...]
Well, actually that should be “It’s live!” The new July/August issue of TheWahmMagazine is up with my article, “The Eight to Three Empty Nest,” featured on the cover. (The article is about deciding whether to continue working from home once your kids are old enough to be in school all day.)
TheWahmMagazine is an entirely digital magazine, [...]
For my friends who are clacking away at their keyboards while I’m over here clicking away with my camera, I want to clarify what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.
Have you ever taken a photo that was really, really great but you have no idea how you did it? That’s me. I have some [...]
Lesson 2, Jodie Coston’s Free Online Photography Course at Morguefile
The lesson this week focuses (ha ha) on how shutter speed and aperture affects your pictures. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been so keen to learn. Although this assignment was way difficult on my little “prosumer” Canon, I am starting to get the hang of it [...]
Lesson 1 was about composition. Jodie wrote about filling up the frame with your subject, the rule of thirds, leading lines and triangles. The first assignment was to take an abstract photo, and the second was to take pictures of a subject from all different angles and post a few of them.
I did that, but [...]
Hey, Ma, I’m done with my homework. I’m posting the assigned photographs (and then some) for Lesson 1 of Jodie Coston’s Free Online Photography Course at Morguefile. I realize I have a lot to learn and a long way to go, and I welcome your comments and suggestions, because they’ll help me get there.
Assignment 1: Abstract photo, [...]
So I have this Canon Powershot S3 and I decided I better put the pro in “prosumer” before I’m forced to concede that Auto mode is where I truly belong.
And I knew that, this being the Internet and all, I would be able to find someplace online that would just teach me, for free, how to [...]