Mason G's Photography Journal

 I've been thinking about this idea for awhile and I'll try to express it now. In my world of photography I sometimes see the world in boxes or make frames out of a subset of my visual screen. My eyesight is what is giving me data from the visual spectrum, but in photography I can see images across time too. It is this time travel that I love so much about my photography. I think it is something I am pretty good at, but I know I continue to learn. Sometimes I review some of my older photos with less enthusiasm than when I took them, but enough with the self-deprecation... Still though, my photography continues to evolve and I am enjoying the ride. "Museum of Astro Memories" TIME TRAVEL : A quick shutter like 1/100 of a second will give a snapshot in time much like the result that my eyes give me in real time. If I blink I can sort of imagine that snapshot of what I just saw frozen as a memory. A photographic image is that same thing, but can never be seen in real-tim...

 In May 2023 I attended a TAMRON workshop in Farmington, NM where we visited Bisti/De-Na-Zin and the Ah-Shi-Sie-Pah Wilderness. These are BLM-managed badlands. We had a local guide when entering deep in the area. The first night was with Kailo Winters, then we had Gilbert Tsinnajinnie. The guides brought great insights to the area and exuded a pride in themselves that I enjoyed.  One of the themes our TAMRON guides taught us was to think of "what story your image was trying to convey". The who-what-where-when-why kind of thinking that can go into your photograph. While that did not grab me with any huge changes to my approach I was open to it and continue to bring that thinking into a composition. Here is a great photo of our group. There was our two TAMRON experts - Erica Robinson and Armando Flores. Our Navajo guide on the second day here is Gilbert Tsinnajinnie. We had some older workshop members that were great photographers. I found myself learning from each person. They...

 I have become interested in the angles and geometry at the Denver Botanic Gardens. There is this conceptual building there that from the outside looks very alien to me. It is the Science Pyramid seen below. The straight lines in the concrete edging, the triangular shapes of the roof, the 6-sided polygons making up the roof all make for an interesting subject. With a few tweaks I have created some other-worldly photographs.  Four Corners Pool and Science Pyramid    What I enjoy about this imaginative project field trip to the Botanic Gardens that I assigned to myself is that the building/subject and surrounding area are fixed and unchanging (concrete) while I have created a scene out of my mind that appears to be not from this earth. The water shimmers with a long exposure from my iPhone 13 Pro.   Base Camp Alpha Many shapes I like using leading lines, shapes and angles - right ones, as well as acute/obtuse angles. I was trying to line up the camera along an ed...