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I Made a Pinhole Camera DSLR

I Made a Pinhole Camera DSLR

I decided to make a pinhole camera. My first instinct was to build one from scratch, but since developing isn’t realistic for me right now, I used my old DSLR with the body cap for the pinhole. It’s fast and easy and you get to see the results right away. It only took a few minutes to make. I spent far more time looking for instructions and watching YouTube videos than it took to do the…

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Sandra Dalton – Artist Spotlight Solo Art Exhibition – August 2021 - Fusion Art

Sandra Dalton – Artist Spotlight Solo Art Exhibition – August 2021 – Fusion Art

Sandra Dalton is the Photography & Digital Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of August 2021. Sandra is an award-winning photographer based in Colorado, USA. Sandra’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of August 2021. The gallery will promote Sandra and her work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email…

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"Everything Comes Back in Style" on display in Viral Influence: Art in The Time of Coronavirus at The Arvada Center

“Everything Comes Back in Style” on display in Viral Influence: Art in The Time of Coronavirus at The Arvada Center

Everything Comes Back in Style is currently on display in the Salon at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, in Arvada, Colorado. Arvada Center Salon Exhibit – Viral Influence: Art in The Time of Corona Virus. photo credit: Arvada Center The show has an interactive audio component so viewers have the opportunity to hear from each artist. In addition to the in-person show at the Arvada…

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His Whole Being Radiates a Pure, Wild Sweetness

His Whole Being Radiates a Pure, Wild Sweetness

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Caboose in Black and White now Available

Caboose in Black and White now Available

I’ve just added Caboose in Black and White to Etsy for digital downloads.

This is one of my favorites from a few years ago. I’ve had it available for prints for a long time, but just recently realized it was not up for digital download. Now it is. The digital download is a large file that can be printed to at least 24″ x 36″.

Order as poster, framed print, and in many other printed forms…

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Title Suggestions?

I took this photo during the supermoon in March. Thanks, Alan, for the head’s up to go outside and get the shot! There’s something about this one that really moves me,

When I downloaded it from the camera and could really see it, I knew my normal print size wasn’t going to work. I’ve been doing mostly 13″ x 19″. This needed to be bigger. But I can also see it as a book cover. It just feels…

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Birds in Clouds

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Photo Stories: Endless Summer, No Parking, and the Challenge of Themes

Photo Stories: Endless Summer, No Parking, and the Challenge of Themes

Themes. I tend to bristle at them. I always feel like there is an unspoken challenge, that someone is going to feel entitled to interpret my work and decide their opinion is fact without consulting me on the meaning.

I know that’s coming from a long history with this issue as a writer and from my experience as a student (for a taste of what I’m talking about, read this article I recently came…

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Kitten saved by PDSA after eating toxic pollen

Kitten saved by PDSA after eating toxic pollen

via Kitten saved by PDSA after eating toxic pollen

please remember that your flowers and house plants can be poisonous…

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Iris and The Articulated Screen (with excerpts from my photography blog)

Iris and The Articulated Screen (with excerpts from my photography blog)

If you have been following Feral Cat Love, you may be familiar with Iris. I definitely need to update her page at this point. Iris is daughter of Stash and granddaughter of Mr. Tom. Even though she was born and raised here, and I can pet her mom now, she’s still the most skittish and shy of them all. And I’m starting to think that’s a good thing. She’ll be 10 next month, and she’s still a mama’s…

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Iris This is from a session in between when I was working on getting Iris to get out in the light.

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Great Lighting Doesn’t Always Work Out

Great Lighting Doesn’t Always Work Out

In my last post I said I was going to try to get close-ups of Iris with better lighting. I had a plan, and it was a good one except for one thing I should have seen coming.

Like me, Iris is very sensitive to light. One of the challenges I failed to mention last time is, even in my not-so-close photos of her, she’s usually squinting or scrunching, or has her eyes closed entirely. Like this:

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Iris and the Articulated Screen

Iris and the Articulated Screen

Photographing Iris is a challenge. She’s jumpy. If you look at her for very long, she jumps up and moves around. Trying to get photos at her level is particularly challenging. And, getting close-ups has been next to impossible. She doesn’t like it when I move much at all when she is close. I’ve taken many photos of her over the years, but I’ve never really been able to capture her full beauty.

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Photo Stories: Stash Stalking the Amazing Mr. Tom

Photo Stories: Stash Stalking the Amazing Mr. Tom

This photo was taken during one of my favorite sessions. I was able to get some amazing shots of three generations of formerly feral cats – Mr. Tom, his daughter Stash, and her daughter Iris. All were successfully TNR’d long before this shoot, but when I took these photos, the only one of the three that I could approach was Mr. Tom. Stash and Iris still ran from me, although they would come up…

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If You’re Not Shooting in RAW, You’ll Regret it Later. Here’s Why. (from my photography blog)

If You’re Not Shooting in RAW, You’ll Regret it Later. Here’s Why. (from my photography blog)

I’m posting some excerpts here from my latest blog post on my photography site. If you tale a lot of cat pictures, like I do, shooting in RAW can mean the difference between having tons of great photos and just having a bunch of crap that could have been great. You’ll want to set your camera to RAW+JPEG, so you still get both.

These are just the highlights from the post. You can see the full post

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If You’re Not Shooting in RAW, You’ll Regret it Later. Here’s Why.

If You’re Not Shooting in RAW, You’ll Regret it Later. Here’s Why.

*** There are plenty of articles on why your need your RAW files for legal reasons, and I encourage you to go read them. But that’s not what this is about. This post is about why you need the RAW files for yourself. ***

If you don’t know how to work with RAW, or you don’t think you’ll ever do anything with your photos, like displaying or selling them, you may think it’s fine to skip capturing…