The Joy of Water
With temperatures at almost 90 degrees, Seattle residents who were suffering a meltdown headed for the fountain at the Seattle Center to...
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Digital Rabbit
- Aug 3
- 2 min
Mastering the Art of Still Life
Still Life scenes are popular subjects for painting and photography because the maker has complete control over the composition and...
Digital Rabbit
- May 9
- 1 min
What's Around Me?
What's around me depends on the day and time. So when the 365-Day Project gave me that as a topic, I was standing in the kitchen deciding...
Digital Rabbit
- May 4
- 1 min
Ladybug Emergence Day
While walking outdoors today, I saw hundreds of bugs flying through the air. At first I thought they might be those tiny gnats that seem...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 29
- 1 min
When a Negative is a Positive
Need I say more? One week ago my Covid at-home test was positive. A few days later, my lab-based PCR test was positive. Now I am back to...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 28
- 3 min
The Sea: To Read or Not to Read?
The Sea, by Irish author John Banville, was reviewed in The Guardian as one of the best Irish novels. Because I have plans to travel to...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Captured!
(Image: William Dent, CCO, via Wikimedia Commons) For more than two years I've felt as if I've been evading Covid, much like a fox evades...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Walking Through Lilliput
According to Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput was an island of tiny people who were only inches tall. I imagine that the flowers on the...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 20
- 1 min
A Bottle With a New Purpose
When you live on a rural property as big as mine, it is not unusual to find old things strewn here and there in the woods. I've found a...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 19
- 1 min
Not so Easy a Life
This buck looks as if he is leading an easy life, resting in the meadow surrounded by tasty grass. But this is not the typical pose of...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 18
- 1 min
Sunshine in a Glass
I spent a fair amount of 2020 learning to use Photoshop and a number of other image processing tools. One of my goals was to learn how to...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Keeping the Memory Alive: Floating Daffodils
Last fall, my landscaper lined my driveway with 500 daffodil bulbs. Her crew did such a good job replacing the dirt and grass that I was...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 15
- 1 min
An Unnatural Pose
Flowers look best in their natural habit. But when practicing to compose and photograph still life scenes, plucked flowers look terrific...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Turkey in a Tree
Turkeys spend so much time walking and running on the ground, that I wonder why they have wings. The males fluff them out and make...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 13
- 1 min
A Covid Still Life
Looking through my photo archives, I came upon this still life. During spring last year, it seemed many of the photos submitted to my...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Pandemic Abstracts and Social Context
A lot of art was created during the pandemic–music, photos, collages, poems, and more. For me at home, most photos I created were related...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 10
- 1 min
Is This Food? The Sequel
In Is This Food? I wrote about the artificially intelligent search engine that identified home made fire starter as food. Understandably,...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Appreciating the Back
I once attended a workshop in which the presenter talked about flower photography. She pointed out that photographers who capture images...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 6
- 1 min
A Heart in Nature
As humans, we have a strong tendency to make meaning from otherwise random arrangements. The term for is is pareodoila. When I...
Digital Rabbit
- Apr 4
- 1 min
Is This Food?
I have an search plug-in for Photoshop (Excire) that supposedly uses machine learning (AI) to analyze images and figure out what's in...