I know I vowed to start blogging more and I kind-of have done so, but to be honest, most of my good content goes over on [robotSprocket] rather than here. But maybe that will change in the new year. Maybe. As for 2022, it’s the end-of-the-road and as I look forward to 2023, I wanted to take a few moments to look backwards at this year. As far as photography goes, this was a year of less photography and more enjoying. Enjoying life. Enjoying where I am. Enjoying my time with my wife...
Fifteen years of Fine Daily Photos at 75CentralPhotography!
First off, apologies that a) I haven’t actuallly blogged here in over a year; and b), that this usual year-end retrospective is almost a month late. I suck. I know. 😛 As in years past, these are the 10 most-interesting photos I made and shared in 2021 as determined by Flickr’s obscure and mysterious “Interestingness” algorithm. 10. Going Downtown 9. Shadow Grove 8. Walk to the Sea 7. Twilight Graves 6. In the Mysterious Hills 5. Waiting for Last Light 4. Duality 3. Unstructured 2. Among the Red Rocks On the Range
As in years past, these are the 10 most-interesting photos I made and shared in 2020 as determined by Flickr’s obscure and mysterious “Interestingness” algorithm. 10. Twisted 9. The Lonesome Tree at Evening 8. Dam Danger 7. On the Forest Highway 6. Skybound 5. Pumping Petroleum 4. Early-Morning Solitude 3. Autumn Backroad 2. Placid Dawn Countryside Drive Sadly, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we were unable to complete any of the travel we had planned on in 2020, so most of our photos this year are from the North Texas region where...
After an arduous 2016, full of misfortune both societal and personal, I’m gladly welcoming 2017. Over the weekend, I started thinking about how I can “up my photography game” during the coming 12 months. Here’s a short list I came up with.</p><p><strong>Shoot more</strong><br />This one seems obvious, but, at least in my case, it’s applicable. During 2016, I didn’t get out and take photos as often as I had in the past. Whereas in the past, I’d get up early on a weekend morning and head out on “photo drives” that would take...
I suddenly just realized that I hadn’t actually blogged about anything in a very, very long time. So, to celebrate my return, I’m announcing that I’ll be hosting the Tyler, Texas, walk during Scott Kelby’s annual World Wide Photowalk. We had a great time walking in Downtown Tyler last year and are hoping to continue the fun this year at Tyler State Park. To join us, you can find the details and sign up by going to the site for the walk here. If you’ve never been to Tyler State Park, click here...
Someone asked me the other day about how I got into photography. I thought about it for a moment and then gave them the TL;DR version, but I thought that the long version might be interesting to write down just for my own enjoyment and as a memory exercise. I didn’t grow up in a particularly-photography obsessed household. If anything, we were “snapshot” people with maybe a side of occasional “photography”. My father had a Minolta SRT-101 with a 50mm lens that got lugged on family vacations, trips to visit relatives and various...
A couple of days ago, my featured photo on 75Central.Com was an abstract detail of Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas‘ port-side balconies: In the description, I noted that this ship is the largest passenger vessel ever constructed (1,187 feet long and ~225,000 GT). After posting this, I started wondering how that compared to the RMS Titanic, which was launched roughly 99 years before the Allure and was, at that time, the largest passenger vessel ever built. Lucky for me, others have already done the comparison and I was able to find this somewhat...
Sometimes (by which I mean, honestly, “a lot of times”), I second-guess the photo I’ve chosen for a particular day on the photoblog. I usually post the next day’s photo the night before, queuing up several days if I’m going to be busy or out of town, choosing a photo that I think–at the time–has interesting composition and subject matter and looks great. But then, sometime the next day or week or even month–I’ll look at the photo and be like “what the hell was I thinking?”. Ninety-nine percent of the time I...
