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The Moorhead Tastee-Freez, Hotel Donaldson, Fargo Theatre, and Red River...
Upon initially reflecting on photography, it’s easy to think of it as a very realistic portrayal of reality. You see something, you fire your camera and you’ve got what you saw. But that notion isn’t...
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Cool stuff you can do on your blog with menus
Hot on the heels of my recent blog post about using the text widget, I bring you a little tutorial on how to add a little bling to your Areavoices blog with a “menu.” Note: I’ll be using the default...
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Photo: American flag in black and white
Here is another example of a different approach I’m currently taking to processing some of my images. This high-contrast, stylized, black-and-white look isn’t right for every image, of course, but I...
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Blog tutorial: Using ‘tags’ to organize your posts and help your readers find...
Using tag words on your blog posts is a quick and easy way to “group” your posts and create links to those groups of posts. “How?” you ask? I’ll use my own “Everything Else” blog as an example (that’s...
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Silhouette of a tree (and a little birdie) against a Cass County sunset
Here’s a really quick photo blog post. I snagged this image as the sun was setting Friday (05.10.13) in rural Cass County. That little birdie was nice enough to occupy that branch for me. Adds a little...
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The Multiband Tower, transparent and black-and-white
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of photographic fun playing around with what I can do by “pushing” things on black and white photos. By “pushing,” I mean not worrying about keeping the image true to...
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Broadway, a blue-night sky and smokey streaks of car lights
Here’s look at Broadway in downtown Fargo from a few weeks ago. It’s a long exposure, of course. I had to do a lot of cleanup to the sky on this one because of some wicked lens flare. Happy with the...
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So here’s what’s wrong with my photography…
I took this photo in north Fargo this weekend. (You can click on it for a larger view.) I like it, but there’s something missing…. It’s not the composition. I like that. The shot is basically divided...
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A shadowy figure: I was perplexed by what appeared in this photo, but I think...
I was out playing with my camera in rural Cass County, N.D. this weekend. I think I was, loosly speaking, near Harwood. I stopped and took some photos of an old brick grain bin or silo. Nothing really...
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Josie’s Corner Cafe in black-and-white – Am I cheating here?
I continue to explore a new approach on some of my black-and-white photos, giving my pics a “hard,” even unnatural, appearance in processing. Here’s another example of that approach; and another; and...
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A follow-up to “Josie’s Corner Cafe in black-and-white – Am I cheating here?”
Recently, I posted a photo of a man outside Josie’s Corner Cafe here in downtown Fargo and a discussion of that image. I took a good deal of liberty in the processing of that photo, and, in the...
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Brilliant colors and abstraction in downtown Fargo
I wouldn’t want to live my whole photographic life doing abstraction, but I do like to dabble in it a bit. One night this weekend my camera and I went to downtown Fargo and captured some reflections...
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Photos: Joy, beauty and melancholy in water drops
One of the benefits of taking up photography as a hobby is that the craft trains your eye to see beauty that you might have otherwise missed or maybe not noticed as overtly. You just start to see more....
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Photos from western North Dakota and South Dakota: Mt Rushmore at night and...
My family and I are taking a little vacation out in western North Dakota and South Dakota. Here’s a shot of Mt. Rushmore from Wednesday night. The day before we went to Mt. Rushmore, we were in the...
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Photo post: Three distinct looks at Mt. Rushmore
The family and I just got back from a trip to western North Dakota and South Dakota. It was my first visit to Mount Rushmore. Some folks from the Fargo-Moorhead area may gasp at that, but having grown...
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Images from North Dakota and (maybe) South Dakota
I captured these images on a recent trip to western North Dakota and South Dakota. Click on the images for a larger view. I said “maybe” in the headline because I’m not certain if the photo of the road...
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Photos: A buffalo, a house in a sea of blue and green … and a dog-purse thingy
I love people. They’re so interesting, quirky, strange, funny, predictable and unpredictable. A couple of weeks ago, I was out to the western Dakotas for a little getaway with the family. On the way...
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Photos: Bold color at Gary Days; and a picture that might be happy or sad …...
I’ve been working in black-and-white a lot lately (“a lot” being a relative term and meaning “a large proportion of my photographic time”). Part of the reason is that I took part in the “Thirty-Six”...
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Photo: Late dusk in Barnesville, Minn.
Let me tell you: photographing Minnesota in the summer is not for the faint of heart. I thought the mosquitoes were going to pick me up and carry me away Sunday night. I was out and about looking for...
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