Hello just wanted to say great job on yellowstone photos. i came across these surfing and saw your photo. Dont know if you remember me, but i was also on the stone from 87 to 90 in the Dive locker and as far as i know i was the only Moose aboard at that time. take care and keep up the great work . The Moose
Hi Cat, I miss your smiling face down here in SC. All is good. I am always checking out your work and telling people how wonderful you are. I hope things are going well for you. My wife and I are forever grateful to you for the wonderful memory we have of my retirement. Send me an email...
Cat, Can't wait to see the pictures you and your partner were awsum!!!!!!!
Guest dale&mary wrote:
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 8:18 PM
Cat the reunion pictures are good don't know which ones to pick . Mary
Guest LEX wrote:
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 5:06 PM
HI CAT, I CAN'T THANK-YOU ENOUGH FOR THE ONE OF A KIND PICTURES YOU TOOK FOR MY SON AARON'S WEDDING. SARAH AND AARON WILL HAVE WONDERFUL MEMORIES THRU YOUR PICTURES. ALSO THE PAINSTAKING WORK OF PUTTING THEIR WEDDING PICTURE WITH OURS AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS. YOU ARE GREAT LOVE LEX
Cat, thanks for capturing the memories of Yellowstone. it sure was nice to see faces that I haven't seen in over 20 years. you certainly have more than just a knack behind the camera. keep up the great work. simply marvelous!
I was browsing your on call site. I liked how you said "I don't capture the hands but the love in the hands". That's awesome! I followed the Fotki link and have been checking out your latest stuff. It gets better and better each time I stop by. I know you will keep up the good work.
It was a great surprise to find this out here on the net. I have thought of you often wondering where you are and what you have been up to. It was great to see the pics you have posted out here of the yellowstone and all the people. I sure hope to hear from you. I would like to get some of these pics! They are awesome! Take care and please be in touch!
It looks like I'm about to dominate this page of your guest book. :-( Please accept one more --short-- post.
I just posted some incredible images of a donkey killing a mountain lion. You probably would really enjoy the pix taken, probably with a cell phone, by "annonymous" and came to me by email. I did a bit of editing and posted them.
You may forward the URL to your friends if you like.
I've a long day ahead, that is if we go see Mom. I've got some sort of skin rash or poison from cutting down the Cedar tree, Friday. So, here I am rubbing my hands, wrists and forearms and staring at this monitor again.
Thanks for your bigger than life words. I've added you to my friends list.
Let me tell you about four shoots. They'll give you some laughs and instruction, hee hee. ...and anyone else reading this.
It was 1983 and I had my first SLR and had been looking at a few how-to books, magazines and the like. Soon, I found myself on a fairly isolated stretch of white beach. Thinking to be creative and seeing a Pepsi can in the sand, I got right down on my stomach, camera held above sand by only the thickness of my hand. I figured to do a perspective shot. The beach stretched on for about a mile or so with a slight curve. Condos and motels were tall and more going up with continual construction. All I had at the time was the 50mm "normal" lens that was packaged with the Canon. Remembering my lessons, I knew that to get a good closeup of the soda can and the distant beach, I'd have to use a small aperture. I framed it up like I wanted. At the camera shop where I got the film processed, I asked the fellow to tell me what he thought of my first attempt at being artistic. Being a novice, I thought I'd done pretty well, you know. He was gracious and did not tell me how bad the whole thing was; but he did point out a valuable lesson. In the far distance, behind the Pepsi can was the towering boom of a crane. It was positioned perfectly to look like a soda straw in the can, albeit thin and identifiable. From that point on, all I ever saw was that "soda straw."
1984, aparently no smarter, I was teaching piano lessons to a teenage PK. Her dad wanted her to have her lessons at his church on the church's excellent instrument. For whatever reason, we decided to take her picture and chose the outside wall of the building for the background. "Stupid" would be a compliment to how I felt when I saw the print. On the side of the building was a cross and I had her standing in front of it with the top sticking up, out of her head and each arm out of either ear. Oy!
That same year, I shot a friend in his wedding tux, standing outdoors. It wasn't so bad this time and most people probably would miss it. But I sure never have gotten past the very distant power pole rising from his head. Trust me, it was very small and easy to miss. But I think I finally learned the lesson to pay serious attention to every detail.
1985, I was in a single-engine prop airplane and flying over a building that was to be photographed. I had plenty of film, the right lens and an hour of flight time. The pilot positioned the craft just right and I pressed the shutter button only to hear nothing but the hum of the plane. No shutter click and my new bottom attached auto winder was silent. We lined up again and still no cigar. Problem: dead camera battery. From that day forward I've never been caught with less than two backups.
Believe me, you learn more from your errors than from your successes. In the 80s, I spent countless hours studying the work of famous photographers, and stock photography, such as is seen in magazines and the like. After so much looking, I began to see the importance of side lighting for enhanced texture and depth, parallel lines, repeated patterns, narrow DOF to isolate subjects and simple color schemes. And most of all, the Rule of Thirds. I know I'm an adict of this rule and it cannot nor should always be employed. But if you pay attention to good movies and other forms of artistic photography, you'll see it is heavily used. Why? It works. It's powerful and has positive effect on how the viewer's eyes move about the image.
Okay. Gotta go. It may be days before I get back if we go to Mom's today. And I have some "old" friends here on Fotki I need to look in on, :-). I have a folder among my pix that teaches and demos the Rule of Thirds. You may find it helpful. I already see that you have an artist's eye and tons of love for photograhy. If you set your goals high and are not dismayed by hundreds and hundreds of failures, you'll become quite good. The only restraints will be time and/or money. People like to see pictures from exotic places and of exotic subjects. If, like me, you're stuck at home, so to speak, you have to work real hard at being creative. Also more money to spend means more and better equipment. But if you master the the rules of composition, color and available light with a point and shoot, you'll be far ahead of most shutterbugs.
I have seen only a few of you images. You have some very good work. Today's cameras take stunning pictures, at least technically speaking. Many people take pictures for memory's sake and other good reasons. Sometimes you run across someone in forums such as Fotki who also tries to artistically frame and expose a scene. Of the images I've seen, choosing which thumbnails to open, I've been pleased to see images that are more than pretty subjects. They are creatively framed. I want to come back soon and look at more of your work. Thanks for sharing.
It is Jewish tradition to honor the deceased by putting a stone on the tombstone. The origin of the custom is uncertain, though it may relate to ancient times when there was no tombstone and a pile of stones was used as a marker.
No problem, you are welcome to ask any question. I hope that you will visit Israel again, and I'm sure that we can have a great photo trip with Yair. Thanks for your invitation too!
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