Working out what to do—photographically—in 2014… #1, get better at seeing, shooting, processing black & white. I’m not making any promises or resolutions, but I hope to post one b/w picture on Wednesdays, starting from today. So this is the first: shot with the iPhone 5 and native camera app’s (iOS 7) ‘tonal’ preset. Contrast …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
7/52-51 a Nursery and an Abandoned housing development: a photowalk
Due to spur-of-the-moment travel plans, this weeks pictures all come from one day of sporadic shooting, first at a plant nursery, and then at an abandoned housing development. Sunday was just beautiful for walking around and admiring Allah’s creation. LX-7, AP mode, settings in the Lightbox, with some edits in Lightroom.
Avatar, abstracted
Its about time for a new avatar, methinks. The current one on almost all social media is from 2012, and I’ve lost a bit of weight and gained a few grey hairs in the interim. This one isn’t really in the running, as it’s just a mashup of the current one (from 2012) and a …
Hipstabstractions
Enjoy 20 pictures of the same (no)thing, shot with the iPhone 5 and Hipstamatic app, and using some of my favorite lens/film combos. If I was a better person, I’d post all the recipes, but…
7/52-50 Phoning it in, poorly
Well, I just didn’t even try this week. Too busy with other stuff. Makes me wonder if I should give up this photography hobby altogether. I’m ashamed to even be posting these, and I have no plans to post these pictures to G+ or anywhere else. If you clicked this far, apologies, but maybe this …
7/52-49 LensBaby Week!!!2!
Unlike the first LensBaby week for this 7/52, I started this one intending to use the LensBaby. And as you might notice, I got some somewhat better results (to my eye, anyway). I still wonder what I might be able to accomplish if I had the time and the leisure to really focus on photography: …
Ice Last Night
Actually continues today… While many others get a snow day, I get to work from home. What a good worker I am!