Photography
•  Digital SLR • Cards for Cameras-Compact Flash    or SD • Initial options: Manual exposure,    Focus, WB, File Size, ISO.
Illusions
 
How does environment inform how we see? Color Amazon
“ Seventy percent of the body’s sense receptors are clustered in the eyes, and it is mainly through seeing the world that we  appraise and understand it.”  -Diane Ackerman
“ As we know, the eye works a lot like the camera; or rather, We invented cameras to work like our eyes.” --Diane Ackerman
 
 
T he principle upon which all camera equipment works is traced back to artist and inventor  Leonardo da Vinci  who showed that all that was needed to project an image was a small pinhole through which light could pass. The smaller the hole the sharper the image. The basic camera, called a "camera obscura" or pinhole camera, existed in the early 17th Century.
Camera Obscura Image  Abelardo Morell,  Manhattan View Looking South in Large Room , 1996
Abelardo Morell,  Camera Obscura Image of Miami Beach in Empty Room, 2001
Abelardo Morell,  Camera Obscura Image of the Sea in Attic, 1994
Harry Callahan,  Eleanor and Barbara , Chicago, 1953
Arno Rafael Minkkinen Self-portrait, Kallavesi, Kuopio, Finland, 1987
Maggie Taylor
Byron Wolfe
Summer First day: my Grandfather died and I turned thirty five
Summer After the funeral, cleaning out his barn
“ If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough”   -Robert Capa
Summer From our favorite tree, the "Weeping Santa Rosa ”
Summer My day job
Autumn Sunday morning
Autumn All 156 disappointing pictures from the last 24 hours
Autumn A little like those ancient cave paintings in France (look carefully)
Autumn While pruning the plum tree, I pause to watch you through the window
Winter Black mitten
Winter Commuter traffic and farmhouse near my childhood home: standing in the parking lot of a franchised rib-joint (when I was a kid this was a field with pet buffalo)
Winter Pruning the peach tree
Winter War at 7:15 PM Pacific (10:15 PM Eastern)
Spring All in one day
Spring Total lunar eclipse
Spring Longest day: fallen plums from another broken bough

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