Black & White Photo

2. • Digital SLR • Cards for Cameras-Compact Flash or SD • Initial options: Manual exposure, Focus, WB, File Size, ISO.

3. Illusions

5. How does environment inform how we see? Color Amazon

6. “ Seventy percent of the body’s sense receptors are clustered in the eyes, and it is mainly through seeing the world that we appraise and understand it.” -Diane Ackerman

7. “ As we know, the eye works a lot like the camera; or rather, We invented cameras to work like our eyes.” --Diane Ackerman

10. T he principle upon which all camera equipment works is traced back to artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci who showed that all that was needed to project an image was a small pinhole through which light could pass. The smaller the hole the sharper the image. The basic camera, called a "camera obscura" or pinhole camera, existed in the early 17th Century.

11. Camera Obscura Image Abelardo Morell, Manhattan View Looking South in Large Room , 1996

12. Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura Image of Miami Beach in Empty Room, 2001

13. Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura Image of the Sea in Attic, 1994

14. Harry Callahan, Eleanor and Barbara , Chicago, 1953

15. Arno Rafael Minkkinen Self-portrait, Kallavesi, Kuopio, Finland, 1987

16. Maggie Taylor

17. Byron Wolfe

18. Summer First day: my Grandfather died and I turned thirty five

19. Summer After the funeral, cleaning out his barn

20. “ If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough” -Robert Capa

21. Summer From our favorite tree, the "Weeping Santa Rosa ”

22. Summer My day job

23. Autumn Sunday morning

24. Autumn All 156 disappointing pictures from the last 24 hours

25. Autumn A little like those ancient cave paintings in France (look carefully)

26. Autumn While pruning the plum tree, I pause to watch you through the window

27. Winter Black mitten

28. Winter Commuter traffic and farmhouse near my childhood home: standing in the parking lot of a franchised rib-joint (when I was a kid this was a field with pet buffalo)

29. Winter Pruning the peach tree

30. Winter War at 7:15 PM Pacific (10:15 PM Eastern)

31. Spring All in one day

32. Spring Total lunar eclipse

33. Spring Longest day: fallen plums from another broken bough