On Monday, January 21, 2019, I learned that another photographic print of mine had been selected by Your Daily Photograph (YDP). The next day YDP offered the print for sale in an email blast and it immediately sold! This image — Outside My Comfort Zone — is the same image Alida Fish chose for the […]
Explore Your Camera’s Aperture Settings
Homework Assignment No. 3: Aperture, Out-of-Focus Backgrounds The third homework assignment I give students in my digital photography class at the Delaware Art Museum is to separate subject from background by using small aperture numbers; that is, apertures with little depth of field. The subject is in focus while the background is out of focus, […]
Explore Your Camera’s Shutter Speeds
Homework Assignment No. 2: Shutter Speeds, Diagonals to Corners My second homework assignment is to send me 2-5 photos in Shutter Priority Mode (“Tv” on Canon and Ricoh cameras, and “S” on Nikon and Sony cameras) and to include a line to a corner. Vary Shutter Speed Motion blur is controlled by changing the time […]
Ray Seigfried Sworn In 1/8/2019
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Ray Seigfried was sworn in for the first time as the State Representative of District 7, representing me and my neighbors. This, the 150th General Assembly of the State of Delaware, was remarkable because ten new faces were present, a huge turnover. For years, there was only one black female […]
Student Photos, 2012 on …
My students at the Delaware Art Museum have produced some wonderful images since I began teaching there. Here I have limited myself to 10 images from each class. But first, here are links to photographs by them of dress rehearsals at the Delaware Children’s Theatre. Scrooge, The Musical, 2018 Wonderland: Alice’s Rock-n-Roll Adventure, 2018 Honk! […]
4th Annual Rehoboth Art League Photography Exhibit
I am gratified that an image of mine — “Outside My Comfort Zone” — was accepted by juror Alida Fish for inclusion in the 4th Annual Regional Photography Exhibit of the Rehoboth Art League. Rehoboth Art League, 12 Dodds Lane, Rehoboth Beach, DE, January 4 thru February 7, 2019. Artists’ Reception: Friday, Jan. 4, 5-7pm. […]
Panorama Photos
Every day, Delaware’s News Journal newspaper publishes a panorama photo at the top of Page 3. I occasionally submit, and they occasionally publish, my images. Photographers should be paid for their work but I don’t mind giving these images to the News Journal to use, especially since the paper has been so generous in giving […]
Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, England, 2018
This is one of five stately homes my wife and I visited during a three-week stay in the Peak District National Park in England and it was not only the oldest but the most memorable, possibly because it had such a sense of age, that things were now what they had been for centuries, going […]
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England, 2018
The Peak District in April, 2018, was often cold and wet. It snowed the day before we got there. That made tours of stately homes attractive, since they were dry. This home the grandest, with modern art from the Tate thrown into the bargain. If you would like to purchase one of these photographs, please […]
Hope House Costume Museum, Alstonefield, England
On our first Sunday in the Peak District National Park in England, we worshiped at St. Peter’s Church in Alstonefield. (Are the fields around there all stone? I did not ask.) Parts of St. Peter’s church (made of stone) date to the 12th century. Their bishop was there that day, marking 500 years since the […]