Photo 101: I’d treasure a return to the green plus B&W4

We’re into the fourth week of Photo 101, classmates, and Michelle has instructed us to look closely at something we treasure. I pulled a couple of my golf clubs out and sat them down on my still brown lawn, perched them against the rail outside the front steps of the Little Bitty my dear wife…

Photo 101: Weekend of cropping and B&W

Our weekend assignments in Photo 101 advise us to look back, mull, dwell, take action. This morning some thousand-plus runners in the Syracuse Half-Marathon ran through my Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, and I took a lot of photographs with my iPhone 6. Indeed, I posted a handful already today. I think I’ll offer more,…

Syracuse Half-Marathon skips my block, but can’t escape my color and B&W

I woke up waiting for the runners from the Syracuse Half-Marathon to thunder down my block in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood for the third year in a row. It’s become a happy day for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle, my dear wife Karen and I. We happily discovered them by mistake at the…

The little tease, and a B&W challenge answer

It’s going to get nice here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood eventually. It’s spring, after all. Saturday afternoon, I noticed more green in the backyard my dear wife Karen and I’s cherished Little Bitty. The grill has been liberated from its mound of covering snow. The shed is completely free from the white…

Photo 101: No place to go but up for landscapes

Wide open spaces. That’s what I think about when the name Anson Williams and the word landscapes are thrown around, such as Cheri did for Photo 101 lesson 15. Wait a second. Potsie Weber from “Happy Days” didn’t shoot great photographs of the world we live in. Make that Ansel Adams. I knew I was…

Photo 101: Finding scale in my life, uh-huh

Frankly, as enriching and rewarding as these three weeks of Photo 101 have been to my blogging iPhone 6 skills, sometimes I read my emails that contain the assignments and sigh. Take my observation about lesson 14 and scale, for example. Michelle found a tiny toy baby on a cake at a fantastic bakery in…

Photo 101: A chilling moment, a splash of motion

Day 13 of Photo 101 brought Cheri’s instructions for us to dig deep to discover our individual moments of motion. After a business meeting in downtown Syracuse, I took a moment to stand on the sidewalk of a bridge. Down I looked onto Onondaga Creek and the Syracuse Creek Walk. On this brisk almost-Spring day…

Photo 101: The architecture of black and white

The lesson sent for day 12 of Photo 101 sent me to my portfolio instead of my iPhone 6. See how far I’ve come under the direction of our instructions? Instead of calling it my iPad Air stash, I’ve decided I can call it my portfolio! In any case, reading Cheri’s directives about sharp lines…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Yeah, we have

Today’s the official one in the books. Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Take out your best green clothes? It started here in Syracuse with our annual downtown parade. Thousands lined the curbs of Clinton Square and South Salina Street to catch the spectacle. My dear wife Karen and I have always thought, in fact, that the…

Photo 101: Where are you, pop of color?

Cheri sent out instructions about color this first day of week three in Photo 101. She wanted us to find images that popped. She wanted us to study the angles. She wanted us to consider the lighting. I drove downtown from the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, running other errands but…