http://bowarphotography.com/blog Photographic musings Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:04:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Thursday, I had the privilege of helping a friend with a first ever exhibition of his photography. Bob Cunningham has done commercial, wedding and portrait photography for 40-some years. For the last 8 or 9 years, we've done many projects and weddings together. As we were getting ready for the ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2009/12/06/my-friend-the-artist/% Hey folks, long time since I've posted here, but I want to let you know about a few things. First, I am launching a new campaign to stir up a little business. I will be pushing myself to shoot more weddings, both individually and in partnership with Bob Cunningham. So, to start ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2009/10/24/gearing-up-for-more-business/% Tuesday, I arrived in San Francisco with my lovely wife to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. 25 years! It has been such a great life together! So naturally, I brought my camera, and my eternally patient wife is willing to not only put up with my desire to capture the world ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2008/10/10/san-francisco/% After hemming and hawing for the last 3 or 4 years about my web site, and specifically how ugly it was, I was inspired by a DJ I met to get a nice flash template for my web site. I don't know why this seemed so difficult before. In any ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2008/05/19/finally-a-new-web-site/% In my last post I talked about being in Romania, but neglected to mention why I was there. I work for a large radio equipment manufacturer and I was in Romania to teach a class on one of our products to a customer. One thing that was obvious in ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2007/12/22/romania-part-2/% It's been awhile, but I have some interesting things to post. I'll start with this: I'm in Romania. My first trip to Europe, or anywhere overseas for that matter, has brought me to a country with a fascinating history. In the years following World War II, Romania was under communist control as ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2007/12/20/romania/% We've all heard about progress in modern medicine over the years. Advances in medicine have come at an astounding rate in my lifetime. But until last week, this was mostly academic for me. Last week on Friday I had surgery that had been planned for months. In January, I came down ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2007/11/03/modern-medicine/% I ran across this video at one of my favorite photography sites, Strobist. What a great way of showing that they can both acknowledge mistakes and go forward with technology! For years Kodak was THE photography company. They made cameras, film and the chemical process to develop and print the pictures ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2007/10/20/kodak-fights-back/% This week, the US News and World Report published the usual weekly editorial column by Mortimer Zuckerman, editor-in-chief: Column link It was a great column about a topic that many in the media shy away from: How government policies have supported the demise of regular two parent families. Or, more specifically, ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2007/10/12/why-i-like-us-news-and-world-report/% So we had a nice time over the weekend. We saw a couple more things in Grand Marais... before we took a drive down the shore... and up into the hills where it was foggy. We stopped at the ... http://bowarphotography.com/blog/2007/10/10/24th-anniversary-final/%