by Mark Bohrer | May 31, 2018 | Architecture, Food, Travel |
Food enhances travel like nothing else. Especially in New Mexico, what you’re eating defines the place. If you want instant ID as an insider, order Christmas on the side when your server asks, “Red or green?” That gives you both types of chili, and...
by activelight | Oct 26, 2017 | Architecture, Food, Interiors, Leica, Travel |
Sexy interiors. Sharp lenses stopped down to small apertures, slow shutter speeds, high ISO. A single flash, usually on-camera. Yes, these are the generally-accepted scriptures of indoor shooting. They’re also a bunch of rules I break for travel shots. Ordering...
by activelight | Jun 22, 2017 | Architecture, Landscape photography, Travel |
“Gas station looks kinda crowded.” A couple minutes go by, waiting in line. “Still looks too crowded.” A couple minutes after that, we’re at “Oh forget it. Let’s go into town.” That’s how we discovered the historical district of...
by activelight | Mar 16, 2017 | Architecture, Flash, How to shoot, Lightroom, Ruins, Shot Design |
You’ve seen those house-for-sale pictures the broker shot with his cell phone – you know, darkly-shadowed house that looks haunted, empty flat interiors, giant rooms that turn out to be phone booth-sized? But add some small flash lighting, and those awful...
by activelight | Mar 9, 2017 | Architecture, Events, Flash, How to shoot, People, Travel |
Usually you have an ‘oh wow’ destination in mind on your travels – a big mountain, amazing cavern, desert ruins, sculpted landscape. But a key part of the story is the incidental stuff along the way – the food, people, and storefronts –...
by activelight | Feb 23, 2017 | Architecture, Landscape photography, National Monument, New Mexico, Ruins, Travel |
March to Nowhere It was always hot. His head itched in the sun under the heavy morion, the open-faced helmet topping his suit of heavy armor. But it was always better in the morning. By a few hours after sunrise, the sweat pooling at the small of his back would cause...
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