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The Education of a Photographer

I’m taking a lighting class, and the first assignment involves a wig head.

Couldn’t resist the book…

Moulin and Rouge

Santa brought a couple of new pets to our house this year.  (Apparently Santa think 2 cats and a dog are insufficient…?)
So meet Rouge:

Kinda cute, yes?

To shoot these, I used an off-camera strobe, and also the on-camera flash to even out some of the light.  And for the record…  a Hermit Crab can sometimes move […]

Urban Paddling (Updated)

Update:  Via a link provided by Glenn over at the Flickr page for this photo, it turns out the cool “Stonehenge” shots (as I thought of them) are of the Donnellan Grave Vault — a burial crypt for one of Houston’s early families:
The Donnellan crypt is a large vault made of red brick with a […]

Night creeping

Somewhere between supervising “go to bed” and getting up at 0-dark-thirty every morning, I almost never shoot at night.   (Plus, creeping around outside until nearly midnight makes me a saggy-eyed hag the next day.  Guess how I know…)
As a result, I’m not particularly skilled with night photography.  Last night, though, we were fogged in […]

Christmas Cards

Had a bit of fun this year with our Christmas cards.

I have two others that I’ve done as well, but this one’s my favorite.  Dear Husband thinks I should be marketing these, but I fail to see a cost-effective way to pull that off.
(And I’m working on another, but it’s a bit twisted.  I may […]