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I’m not so much after eyes as I am hearts and minds. Mood does that. The mood of a photograph is its emotional tone—a … View Post Three Questions For Choosing Your Gear In GEAR , Pep Talks , The Craft , Thoughts & Theory , Travel , Wilderness by David April 28, 2024 27 Comments In two days, I pack the truck and head north up Vancouver Island to meet my wolf guide, Tom, before spending two weeks camped on a remote island, waiting for coastal wolves to wander in front of my cameras. ? Maybe some otters, bears, or eagles, too. I can’t wait. Packing for a trip is always a mix of excitement and indecision. … View Post A Word About Art-Making In Creativity and Inspiration , Life Is Short , Pep Talks , Rants and Sermons , The Craft , The Life Creative , Thoughts & Theory by David April 14, 2024 140 Comments One of the happy perils of posting your work online is the very real possibility of criticism. I suppose posting it anywhere exposes you, but the internet gives people both a microphone and anonymity. Things get said online that would never be said in person to another soul. The internet, especially social media, emboldens us. But it’s not only the internet. … View Post Postcards from Vancouver Island In News & Stuff , Postcards From... , The Craft , The Life Creative by David March 17, 2024 51 Comments Every year, off the coast of Vancouver Island, the place I call home, the herring spawn by the millions. The usually dark green water turns a magnificent chalky blue-green as the herring do the reproductive dance that makes them a keystone species, while at the same time drawing in an astonishing number of animals: gulls, seabirds, bald eagles, sea otters, harbour … View Post Postcards from Kenya In Postcards From... , The Craft , The Life Creative , Thoughts & Theory , Travel by David February 25, 2024 105 Comments My work in Kenya didn’t go as planned. Story of my life, right? But I’m not referring to the fact that my first two days in Kenya were spent in bed in a tent in the bush, with an IV fluid and antibiotic drip, trying to get a fever down. I’m not referring to the fact that unseasonable rains changed everything, … View Post Compensating for Something? In The Craft , Tutorials &Technique , Uncategorized , Workflow & Technical Issues by David December 10, 2023 40 Comments This is another long one, but if you’ve ever struggled to understand Exposure Value Compensation (or never used it), this might help. Put the coffee on and settle in for a bit. Skipping past the inevitable moment when I’m walking around with my 600mm lens and someone asks if I’m compensating for something, the answer is generally yes. I am. But it’s … View Post Crank It Up! (Or How I Stopped Fearing The Noise Monster) In Lightroom & Workflow , Pep Talks , The Craft , The Life Creative , Thoughts & Theory by David November 26, 2023 22 Comments My first real” digital camera was a Canon EOS Digital Rebel. All black, with a vertical battery grip and an impressive 6.3 megapixel sensor, it felt like a tiny miracle. But take that ISO up to 800 and the resulting images were less than miraculous; they were so noisy you’d need earplugs. That was 20 years ago, and while so much has changed … View Post The Adventure of Art In Creativity and Inspiration , Life Is Short , Pep Talks , The Craft , The Life Creative , Thoughts & Theory by David November 12, 2023 10 Comments Life,” said Helen Keller, is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.” The same can be said about art and the effort to make it. Adventure is defined as ” a risky undertaking of unknown outcome, an exciting or unexpected event.” Risky. Unknown. Unexpected. Art-making has a wildness to it, an untamed quality. I know I’ve written about this … View Post More Important Than Good? In Life Is Short , Pep Talks , Rants and Sermons , The Craft , The Life Creative by David October 29, 2023 22 Comments Some of your photographs aren’t very good”; they’re way more important than that. You’ve felt it—I know you have. You’ve experienced the rush of making a photograph that turns out exactly as you planned. Perhaps better. It’s sharp in all the right places, the colours work together, and it has a certain je ne sais quoi that garners more … View Post Two Stories In Creativity and Inspiration , Pep Talks , Rants and Sermons , The Craft , The Life Creative by David October 15, 2023 54 Comments The First Story A guy walks into a music store, credit card in hand. What brings you in?” asks the clerk. How can I help you?” I’d like to buy a microphone,” he says. My grandfather had a microphone when I was a kid, and I loved to hear him sing. 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