Steve Walker

I love all my “children.”

It turns out I did upload the color version several days before.

Impossible to control and I didn’t even realize it was that humid inside my rain jacket.

I always shoot raw format so there is inevitably some tweaking to do, even just some contrast modifies colors. I also have had to increase luminescence in the dull gray conditions I have been faced with on several days-yellow channel here.

Wide open vistas at mid-day…not as easy as you make it look.

A person speaking at our camera club said that families often came to him wanting specific poses he knew wouldn’t work. It did no good trying to dissuade them just did what they asked then suggested something else-his idea that they nearly always wound up liking more.

”Interest” comes from the viewer and isn’t inherent in the subject, though…[Read more]

When people ask me for advice about photography, I always tell them to make images of subjects you have strong feelings for (actually tell them that they love, though that’s not the only strong emotion). That somehow, almost magically, their feeling for the subject will shine through.

On the other hand, I also think that a major strength of…[Read more]

Thank you. Your comment made me wonder what I felt when I framed the image in camera. I didn’t think “this is going to be b&w”—-which is, after all, not an emotion. And I do have a color version here as well. One of my too infrequent pleasures of photography is revisiting and revisioning an image, taking advantage of the opportunity to reengag…[Read more]

thank you.

Do you think it over-saturated?

“The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” – William Thackeray

Thank you. It’s a highly accessible area. GBH’s are common visitors along with Cormorants and a few other water fowl closer to downtown.

The shape of the stick suggests a Cormorant’s head and beak. Or a title: Please, someone, throw me a rope!

I like the idea as well. When I was first getting serious about photography, I had a notion of putting together a book. It’s title was “A Place to Stand.” I was always seeing these scenes but had place to stand that would give me a clear…[Read more]

Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have recommended the Turkey as the national bird for the new nation, thinking the Bald Eagle was more of a scavenger. This is an image that teaches that beauty is a sub-category of interest.

It is hard to resist click chasing. The Photographic Eye channel on YouTube is a great resource that encourages exploration of creativity without worrying about the praise of others. We want and often need feedback, but it’s a slippery slope that can lead away from the very thing we truly need–self expression. What we all need is a support group…[Read more]

Thanks. I do have a color version. It has drama though the colors aren’t blazing as they were last year.

Thank you.