Fall on the east coast is something I deeply miss living out west. There is a sense of seasons, of change coming and that is reflected in nature during this time. The amount of cold vs cool nights affect the intensity of the colors year by year. This year did not offer the crisp cold …
After reviewing my photographs from Saturday’s Oakville Photowalk, I selected the one that I am submitting for the contest that participants can enter – one photo only per participant.
I’ve read and seen the posts on Scott Kelby’s blog about the annual Scott Kelby Worldwide PhotoWalks. In past years I have always had conflicts and was unable to participate. But this year my calendar was free so I signed up. I have been in Toronto on an extended project so I checked the Toronto Photowalk …
Just received word that 2 of my 3 photographs entered in the local county fair have been selected by the judges as winning entries. That’s the first time I have won a photography contest. And 2 of the 3 images were shot with a point and shoot camera. These are the 2 winning images…
After years of anticipation, pouring over specs, researching and reading reviews I have finally taken the step to get a digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera. I had certain criteria that I set regarding resolution, image quality, features, component expandability, and building a system for the future – one that I would be happy with and …
I decided to enter some photographs in a county fair locally. Our family has always thoroughly enjoyed our annual visits to the county fair and have always gone to see the entered art of numerous friends and children that we know. So I decided that instead of just looking at the work of others, I …
After securing my new domain name, I worked on uploading my first portfolio to the new web site. After working on refining the images for the portfolio in Adobe Lightroom, I used the Web Publishing module in Lightroom with the added plugin SlideShowPro Player that allowed great looking Flash slide shows to be designed and …
I have been searching domain name registrars periodically for a domain name suitable for promoting my photography. I have looked at many name combinations and found none suitable and the ones I wanted were already taken. Well, this time I found one that was available – kenshawphotography.com. I am very sure that I had searched …
Having explained in my previous post my renewed desire to pursue photography without the encumbrances of whining about my photography equipment, I set about pouring over the library of images that I have accumulated since cataloging my digital shooting with Adobe Lightroom with the intent of creating a portfolio of my current work.
This is the beginning of the blog for Ken Shaw Photography. While the blog was launched online in February of 2012 I decided that I needed to go back to the spring of 2011 to begin setting the foundation for why the blog was started and my desire to pursue with greater desire the yearnings …
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