I came up with several brilliant titles for this, each more evocative than the last. But in the end, you’re the one looking at it (or, more likely, not), and so you’re the one that gets to title it. Is it a magic crystal from one or another of the video games, books, stories, movies, …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.244 what the!?!
Another day, another attempt at capturing the cats at play, another day they refuse to cooperate. Jerks. So I took the camera to them. Ivan is not perfectly in focus here. I have great difficulty estimating distances, and would normally have just used f/8 or f/16 and not bothered, but I wanted to blur the …
365.243 random still from an early Brothers Quay film
This is definitely a case of going backwards. I’m not even really sure how I captured this. This was the first of a series of shots I made of a clothes pin after the cats refused to cooperate with my carefully arranged flash and camera set up, carefully placed to unobtrusively capture them attempting to …
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365.242 there’s so much happening here
Note: the title should be read to the beat of that Buffalo Springfield song… I’m at a point now where I can choose a subject, make a picture or 5, experiment with the various sliders in Aperture to achieve something pretty and/or artistic and/or suggestive and or ______, and be done with the 365 for the …
Dallas Skyline Meetup
The North Texas Photography Explorers MeetUp Group met up last night in the Trinity River bottoms between Oak Cliff and Downtown. This used to be a fairly sketchy area, but I felt completely safe, and the only people I saw were in cars, on bicycles, or other MeetUpers, though there is evidence of some late-night …
365.241 Dallas Skyline
now with 20% more sunstars! Well, the North Texas Photography Explorers MeetUp Group met up to shoot the Dallas Skyline from the Trinity River bottoms/levee tonight. I met a couple of friendly people, shot with one most of the night, waved hello and/or goodbye at some others, and generally enjoyed myself. I’m going to make …
365.240 Concept Proved… Now What?
So I proved the concept yesterday, and was all excited about playing with it today: thought about it off and on since last night. But when it came time to shoot… blank. So here I am doing a U-Turn. Woo. Exciting. Yawn. I’m going to go put a pen and pad next to the bed, …
