by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 19, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Spring is a fickle mistress here in Maine, and this sort of thing happens more often than we like to think. As anxious as I am to gaze out the window at my wife mowing the lawn, these little exclamation points of winter weather are still charming, somehow (and,...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Each year, in all the temperate regions of the world, there is a night in spring when amphibians migrate en masse to their breeding grounds. Here in Maine, it’s usually mid to late April, and conditions must be perfect: the ground must be thawed, it must be over...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 17, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing, Story behind the lens
One of the great challenges (and joys) of studio photography is controlling light. The word photography means “light drawing,” which I think is wonderful. In the studio, we can (and must) control light very precisely, creating mood and texture and...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 16, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Okay, we’re back to the whole eggshell-as-brainless-monster theme. I’m totally on an egg kick right now. I just think they’re so anthropomorphic! This setup was actually pretty complicated, partly because of the leverage caused by the drooling...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
I was processing images of a birch polypore fungus the other day, in the usual way, when I discovered that a small worm/grub-like insect was crawling along the rim. So I turned the image into an abstract backlit eclipse. The bug is at far right, crawling upward (and...
