Merry Christmas
May The Peace of The Christmas Season be with with you throughout the year. Merry Christmas! About the photograph: (Taken in March, 2009) St. Nicholas Cathedral (Chram sv. Mikulase) from the Lesser Quarter in Prague has put its name into Czech and European Baroque era and is now Prague number one church of this kind. Its history is linked to Czech re-catholisation process that followed the defeat of the Hussites in the Battle of the White Mountain (1620). The beginnings of the imposing Cathedral that we see today go back to the year 1283, when the place of worship started its...
Read MoreDon’t Be A “One Shot” Picture Taker
There are many times when I believe that photographers are “picture takers” rather than photographers. However, you need to take more than just one snapshot of a subject as well. When we use digital cameras we are not burning through film, and it is not costly to take several different angels of the subject. This blog is a case in point. I was working on photographing the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA and the day’s mission was to locate three or four plantation homes. You will see my favorite home on the Photo of the Week. However, that scene was the...
Read MoreA Life’s Journey
As I sit here contemplating my 75 years of existence on earth,..a life’s journey (11-11-11), I look at all the changes that have happened in photography since I took my first photograph as a child. From taking snapshots and rushing the film to the rural community drugstore…or putting it in the mail for processing…and receiving prints back a week or 10 days later mostly fuzzy prints…we now have instant gratification seeing the results of our efforts. With photography we can see photos of our parents, grandparents and even great grandparents. We can see our children as...
Read MoreCapturing Autumn Colors
This week’s Creative Blog displays four photos taken along the Smokey mountains in North Carolina. The colors were not quite at their peak so there is a lot of green showing. It was a beautiful ride along the parkway for about 45 miles. The best way to capture the autumn colors is to be sure that the color is highlighted by the sunshine. It’s also nice to have color in the foreground to frame the scene. In the first photograph, the colorful tree on the left provides a nice frame for the color in middle of the scene and the mountains in back.. In the second photo, the tree to the...
Read MoreMissing for 45 years
Photographers who make their own enlargements or days those who crop and make their own digital prints, crop the photographs to meet specific frame sizes, for example, 5×7, 8×10, 11×14 etc. Many times we have to crop out part of the photograph to make it fit the frame or to make it fit a specific mat size. This is the case with my most favorite photograph: “Here Comes The Parade,” taken in 1963 (I think) at a typical small town celebration parade in Southeastern Minnesota. Here you see the Coke sign of the restaurant with the American Flags waving and wrapped around the...
Read MoreOvercast Days
Overcast days are great days for taking photographs. There are no harsh shadows and the sky will take on a gray or sometimes almost a white appearance whether you are taking color black and white photographs. It is still best to have the sun, which you cannot see, at your back. But even shooting into the sun will not give you any problems. If you are using a camera which automatically sets your exposure, you will want to aim it at the subject and not up into the sky. Otherwise, the sky, which is still bright, will tend to give you an under exposed photograph. The two scenes with this...
Read MoreFrank Brueske
Award winning photographer, Franklin (Frank) Brueske, is originally from Southeastern Minnesota. He became interested in photography while in elementary school and purchased his first camera from a rural community drug store when he was is the sixth grade. It took 127 film, was fixed focus, but had sun and cloud adjustments. He still has that camera today. More about Frank
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