Category: art & photography

  • pano perfect

    pano perfect

    Describe the best picture you took in 2025. I’ve been trying to take the elusively perfect panorama picture since about a week after I got my first digital camera. My success has varied.  A few years ago the iPhone added the method that I use to this day, which if you’re sitting there reading this

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  • urban sketch, five

    urban sketch, five

    I have a mere three sketches left in this October (sub)urban sketching challenge I set for myself. Good thing, too. The weather is starting to become a factor to my outdoor sketching efforts. The one rule that I set for my October month of daily drawing was that they were not just doodles of the

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  • panoramic, three: oculus graffiti

    panoramic, three: oculus graffiti

    There is this strange place literally walking distance from my house.  The graffiti tunnel, more formally known as The Oculus. I say “walking distance” though it did take me over an hour to walk there and an hour to walk home—plus I spent time there taking photos, sketching, making a video and then stopping for

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  • urban sketch, four

    urban sketch, four

    I’m nearly three-quarters of the way through my October sketching challenge as I write this and I have yet to miss a day. Two things have emerged from that effort: First, I think my drawing has legitimately improved. Doing anything daily is inevitably going to contribute to the effort of general practice and growth, but

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  • urban sketch, three

    urban sketch, three

    In the meanwhile, my personal month-of-sketches art experiment continues unabated and, as of nine days in, triumphant. To be clear, not even most of the pics are gems. I have been partaking in the act of suburban sketching, which doubly adds to my challenge of (a) seeking out something to sketch and a place to

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