I found this woman spinning wool on a roof top on Isla Taquile on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, Peru. I sat with her for a while, but she didn’t seemed particularly pleased to have my company. Eventually I…
Spinning Perceptions
Connections with Cameras
I’m a big fan of David duChemin at Pixelated Image. He has a gift (and learned skill) for candid portraiture in challenging environments, is a great writer, and his books are wonderful. I strongly recommend that you check them out.…
Autumn Details and Abstracts
It is about 15 degrees outside right now as I write this. The first morning where the temps here at my cabin have dropped down into the teens. The golden days of autumn already seem long gone, and I’m just…
Stock Site is Live!
The Wild Imagination Photography Stock Library is now live! There are currently more than 1000 images available from across the globe with new images being added daily. Alaska, Bhutan, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, South Georgia Island, Antarctica, and the Falkland Islands…
Birds of Isla Taquile
As I noted a post or two ago, I’ve been spending a lot of time sorting, editing, and keywording some older images. The whole process, while at times tedious, has been to relive some very good memories. One of those…
Runners
Each fall Fairbanks hosts the Equinox Marathon. It’s a trail run that climbs more than 3500ft over the course of the 26.2 mile race. I’ve run it a couple of times myself, never quickly. But this year, rather than joining…
Ahhhh Aurora
After a cloudy night before last when the Aurora was at its peak, we got a consolation prize with a nice display. I shot for about an hour from the hillside below my cabin. Seeing good aurora (and of course…
On Selling
I remember selling my first image. I’d recently been accepted at a stock agency and I’d been checking daily to see if I’d started raking in the cash. Finally, after days of waiting, and hitting the refresh button, a sale…
Keywording Woes
For the past several days I’ve been spending many, many hours keywording images for upload to my stock agencies, and to place on a personal stock site (in progress with news and launch to follow, soon). Keywording is one of…
Chase Jarvis on Creativity
I just think this is great: Chase Jarvis is really one of the pushers in commercial photography, but more so, he has become a voice for the creative and artistic process. He’s something of a rock star in the photographic…