Sign Painter

This Missouri “sign Painter” captures the photo of the week spotlight. Many of the smaller river towns along the Mississippi have used the sides of their old buildings for very neat murals. Louisana, MO is one of the cities. I do not know how many murals they have in the city, three our four at [...]

What you see in the in your viewfinder is what is going to end up in your photograph…and probably a bit more.  Sometimes that is good and sometimes that is bad.  You might end up getting things in your photograph that you really “saw” in your viewfinder but suddenly they are there when you look [...]

We are all confined to the size..or the format…of the photograph our camera takes for us. Most cameras have a horizontal format, others have a square format, but for some reason we seem to be bound by the format of the camera. But we should not be.
I am as guilty of that as anyone else. [...]

 
The Fourth Street Elevator in Dubuque, IA is said to be the shortest and steepest railroad in the world. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The”funicular” as it is called is 296 feet long, with a vertical elevation of 189 feet. (That is steep.) The two cars start at opposite ends, [...]

This peaceful scene of a coastal bridge going from the mainland to a barrier coast is seen throughout the Florida coastal area. This scene was captured one beautiful autumn afternoon while the sun was bright and everything was right with the world. This bridge is between Gulf Breeze and Pensacola Beach, Florida. Notice the gulls on the sandbar.

Don’t wait for the sun to shine before you take your next great photograph. While it is true the majority of good photographs are taken on sunny days, great ones are also taken on cloudy days as well.
There are two kinds of cloudy days…one that is overcast…or one that has fluffy clouds that are passing [...]