Month: December 2019

Paying for a custom-cut matte when framing your image is costly. However, you can eliminate that cost by applying your own electronically generated matte. I have outlined how simple this can be using Photoshop CS 5.1, however this method will work on all prior iterations and most probably on future versions as well. BONUS, we’ll […]

 If you want to shoot a profile, this is the way to do it.  Here’s how it’s done: The window is forward and to her right at about a 45 degree angle (look at the direction).  The light is fully illuminating the side facing away from the camera. Notice how it spills over to her […]

I spied with my curious eye a micro paragraph in a Havana/Cuba travel book mentioning Callejón de Hammel, an alleyway of Afro-Cuban art. As I was going to Havana, I thought I’d satisfy my curious eye with a visit. It was a short hop from Old Havana, but well worth the small effort. As I […]

Technology Exists to Serve Mankind, Yet Some Still Believe Otherwise.  Yes, some still grovel at the altar of technology . . . they don’t get it. I fear they will see the light too late, or never.  The “creative express” is now available for boarding, but they’ll miss it. But those who board this train, […]

Lately I’ve been getting the question, “How do you get good people pictures?” Fact: People like looking at pictures of people, hence the popularity of People and Hello, etc., magazines. My answer: Look for people being people, doing human or symbolizing things that others can relate to. The more you look the more you will […]

It was a nice town and I could have stayed, A part of me asks, “Will you ever go back?” Another part answers, “I never did leave.” And somewhere in California, My life improved. As I wound my way up California Highway #1 some years ago, en route to Big Sur, a road sign flashed […]

Not that I ever disbelieved the existence of an Unknowable Force, but I had this epiphany; not in a church, synagogue, ashram or mosque, but at the bottom of the planet. While leading a photo safari to the Antarctic for Adventure Canada, I saw the light as I had never seen it before, morning, noon […]

Ken, you changed my life, and I should have thanked you long ago. I saw you speak in the basement of a New York YMCA sometime in the late 60’s. I was searching for my life’s goals with a camera. Certainly it was your images, your persona, your humanism…but further, it was something even greater […]

The abstract we cannot know, The notion we cannot define, The dimension we cannot realize, The perception we cannot see.       We explore the dark and the deep, seeking essence, notion and whim within the paradox of space and time; The abstract truth awaits, On the other side of light. Back to Stories […]

It was totally spontaneous! Twenty or so years ago, I was visiting friends on Salt Spring Island, off the coast of British Colombia. These friends had five or six years old daughter. Those who know me know I like to entertain kids, especially when they tend to get board and cranky being with a group […]