by David Middleton | Mar 31, 2016 | Articles
There was a time when I spent every April photographing desert flowers in Arizona. I haven’t been back in two decades but looking at this image it makes me want to go back and do it all over again. I took this Globemallow with my Pentax 6×7 medium format...
by David Middleton | Mar 31, 2016 | Articles
Sol Duc Falls in Olympic National Park, Washington is one of my all-time favorite places in the world. It is a ¾ mile hike through a magnificent old forest to get to the falls and there are photographs everywhere. Go there on a quiet, misty day or even a lightly...
by David Middleton | Mar 30, 2016 | Articles
You all are going to have to suffer through a visual trip down memory lane for a few posts. I am just about done going through my 100,ooo slides I had in my office and in the process of doing so I found some images that I hadn’t seen in a long, long time. The...
by David Middleton | Mar 22, 2016 | Articles
Here’s an oldie of mine that I took 20 years ago. Do you see the compositional error that makes me twitch every time I look at this photo? The penguins are placed too close to the corner or the composition. It’s not a horrible composition but it is also...
by David Middleton | Mar 15, 2016 | Articles
I just found this photo of the same bear that is even worse! Talk about composing in an uncomfortable way! I see this all the time during critiques and image reviews- closer is not always better. You’ve got to let the animal, or kid have space to move...
by David Middleton | Mar 15, 2016 | Articles
One of the results of me going through all my old slides and picking a few to be scanned (by Scancafe) is that I had some fun looking at old images and reliving old memories that had faded with time. The memories are always fond but not all the images I see are always...
