Heron - Edisto Memorial Gardens #photo

Heron - Edisto Gardens
Originally uploaded by Gene Bowker

The heron was not impressed by my attempts to photograph it, and finally decided the best course of attaction was just to ignore me.

You can see more of my Edisto Gardens photos and learn more about the history and activities there in my new Examiner.com article "Road Trip 101: Discovering Edisto Gardens" at http://bit.ly/a2g3Ya

Tired: Slow Food. Wired: Slow Photography! (Article)

Interesting idea about slowing down photography.. goes along with my idea this year of trying to focus more on the details in life.

The article at photojojo begins:

We’ve seen slow versions of everything lately: slow food, slow travel, slow shopping, slow dentistry. (We might’ve made one of those up.)


But have you tried slow photography? It’s like a yoga class for your camera.

Long conversations with subjects, patient exposures, and delicate macros will lend your photos a new calmness and longevity — so vital in these rush-rush go-go slam-crash rock-and-roll times.

Join the Slow Photo movement, and soon you’ll be measuring exposures not in fractions of a second, but in fractions of an eon.

It definately sounds like something I want to investigate further.

Gethin Thomas on Macro Photography (Guardian)

Really great set of macro shots using the British version of the monopoly board as the background from the Guardian Camera Club in this great article