http://www.frankbrueske.com Vintage America on Parade Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:56:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.frankbrueske.com/a-spot-of-light/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/a-spot-of-light/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:53:17 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1025 Finding spots of lights in what might be a dark photograph helps to highlight the scene. You might find a spot of light coming through a shade tree…..or around the corner of a building which is mostly shaded.  I have found spots of light more by accident that planning them out. But it takes time [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/a-spot-of-light/feed/ 1 http://www.frankbrueske.com/lobster-traps/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/lobster-traps/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:10:27 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=1011 The photo of the week is a photograph of a stack of lobster traps at Marathon, FL on the Florida Keys. The pattern of the stacked traps and the barnacles on them caught my eye. They leave an interesting vertical design design in light and dark. This stack was just one of many hundreds of [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/lobster-traps/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/fill-the-frame/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/fill-the-frame/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:10:07 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=984 Everyone tells you to “fill the frame” with your camera so that you get “the best of everything” in your photograph. But what is “the best of everything?” It could be your subject…it could be color…it could be sky..it could be just about anything. In a previous blog we discussed cropping your photograph to its [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/fill-the-frame/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/bayou-labatre-shrimp-boats/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/bayou-labatre-shrimp-boats/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:27:38 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=970 Bayou LaBatre, the heart of Alabama’s shrimping industry, ws divisasted by Hurricane Katrina in September of 2005. It was one the deadliest storms in the history of the country. Most of the shrimp boats were tossed around like corks on a stormy ocean and sunk, ended up tossed up on shore or were badly damaged. [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/bayou-labatre-shrimp-boats/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/what-makes-a-great-photo/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/what-makes-a-great-photo/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:43:36 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=906 A great photograph is in the eyes of the beholder. What one person likes, another person may not. It is simply personal preference. But the question is…do you know why you like a certain photograph, or a painting too for that matter? You should be taking photographs that you enjoy seeing and sharing with others. Here [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/what-makes-a-great-photo/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/new-orleans-street-art/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/new-orleans-street-art/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:08:53 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=892 I begin the new year with a photograph from the end of 2009, the art work of a street artist on the edge of the French Quarter. It was near dusk when this scene was captured and the very brilliant colors in the paintings jump out at you from the dark background of vegetation. There [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/new-orleans-street-art/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/in-memory/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/in-memory/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:52:28 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=869 Is there a person in your life who has had a profound impact on your life but you never got around to telling him or her about it? That was my situation today. I received word today that a cousin of mine, Don Brueske, had passed away in Minnesota on Friday, December 18th. A cousin I [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/in-memory/feed/ 3 http://www.frankbrueske.com/crop-that-photograph/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/crop-that-photograph/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:41:34 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=851 I have discussed in other blogs about getting the best out of your best photograph. Here I go again. If you are going to have an enlargement made to hang in your home or in a room, you will want to get the best out of if. Once you have selected the photo, decide if the [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/crop-that-photograph/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/indian-pow-wow/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/indian-pow-wow/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:47:19 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=839 The photo of the week  is actually “photos of the week. ”  They were  taken recently at an Indian Pow Wow near our home in Florida. Every year the Santa Rosa Creek Indian Tribe  presents its annual Indians Day Celebration. This dancer was one of its Spirit Warrior Dancers. Photo taken 2009. ]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/indian-pow-wow/feed/ 0 http://www.frankbrueske.com/seeing-your-photograph/ http://www.frankbrueske.com/seeing-your-photograph/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:55:16 +0000 frankb http://www.frankbrueske.com/?p=808 It is one thing to see your photograph before you take it, but it is entirely another thing to “see” your photograph after you have taken it and are looking at the final print. After you take the photograph, the finished print will probably not be exactly what you saw in the viewfinder. This is ok, [...]]]> http://www.frankbrueske.com/seeing-your-photograph/feed/ 0