Welcome April!! I've decided to keep offering my free downloadable desktop wallpaper calendars of my artwork every month. April's calendar has a photo featured from the Keukenhof in Holland.
Hopefully April will bring out the sun and the warmth that has been trying to elude us. I think most of March I heard of it snowing some where. Here in Germany it was rainy most of the time. I am looking forward to a little bit of sunshine so I can go out adventuring again!
The Keukenhof is Holland's Tulip festival. Last month I talked about my trip to the Netherlands and […]
This photo tip is on the subject of composition.
Composition is the placement of visual elements in an art work, basically meaning of why your photos look a certain way. The way a photo looks or a piece of art is important because it changes how we see it, the emotions it can evoke, and how it tells a story. So learning how to improve your composition can be very important.
The compositional rule of Simplification basically means: "When in doubt leave it out." Literally, if it isn't lending to the story your photograph is trying to tell, don't include in […]
If you are ever traveling near the Netherlands in the spring time, a must see visit is the Tulip Festival in the South Holland province called the Keukenhof. Every year starting in the end of March to the middle of May, the Keukenhof shows off it's many varieties of tulips and other flowers. When I went in May this year there were more flowers than I could see in the half day that I walked through it. I took as many photos I could. Some of the species of flowers I had never seen before.
Depending on when you […]
As artists and photographers we are constantly changing how we see things. I find that when I am photographing I try to shoot objects from different angles. Sometimes using angles from even the object's point of view can have a nice composition to it. So if you are a new photographer I would encourage you to look around, walk around, and bend down to get as many different angles as you can so that you can create intriguing and interesting compositions for your art.
From a Poppy's View
The picture above "From a Poppy's View" was taken […]
