James Brubaker

Need I say more?

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Sleep well and awake refreshed!

A single Queen Ann’s Lace – Background darkened & flower lightened – otherwise as shot with Nikon D70 – Tamron 28-300 (110) 1/40 sec, f8, iso 200

Jeb 3/29/2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Enjoy your camera – there are so many kinds of photography to use it on.

It is fun finding my old photos – they show me doing stuff (street photography) – before my involvement in the TGO photo Club:

JEB 03 28 2024 – photo from 2005

JEB 03 28 2024 – photo from 2005

JEB 03 28 2024 – photo from 2005

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – I can’t say enough about how inportant doing “Street Photography” of your life is to you and your family.

What are you doing on my Island?

JEB 03 23 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – enjoy the things of nature around you!

An AI view, from the Nature Trail, of TGO’s controled fire wise burn yesterday. – 22 animals I think?

JEB – 03 22 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Maybe this AI stuff will be fun for you too!

Dave wrote:  Hi Jim, Here are some shots of Cardinals on a snowy day here in upstate NY.  Spring is not here yet. Dave

03 21 2024 Dave Cesari

03 21 2024 Dave Cesari

03 21 2024 Dave Cesari

03 21 2024 Dave Cesari

03 21 2024 Dave Cesari

03 21 2024 Dave Cesari

AND NOW A THOUGHT OF MINE:

Being a photographer offers at least 5 elements of happiness – that is why I recommend photography to all seniors! 1. It helps us study the beauty of the art in what our eyes see (nature, people, & architecture). 2. Post processing gives unlimited opportunity to learn & apply the rules of art that we did not build into our photo when we snapped it. 3. Photography helps us socialize because we have a tangible product we use to trigger discussions with others (not just in person but digitally around the world via all those satellites rocketed up from Kennedy Space Center) 4. The physical demands of a photo shoot can be tailored to match our physical capabilities throughout life – even from a wheel chair if that happens. 5. Finally, if we ever verge on boredom, whip out the digital device and engage for an hour with the nature, people, & architecture of past times – boredom is gone!

I snapped this photo from the road near my home on Drummond Island a year or so ago.

Yesterday, I used a Beta version of a photo AI program to help me make this photo – I think it looks like a real shot of life on Drummond. – Oh my!

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Get ready for the future. – Some day in the future, I may take my argument to AI and see how it writes a story to convince you to become a photographer.

Dave wrote:  Hi Jim, I haven’t sent you anything in a while. We have had an open mild winter. Not much around to shoot. We had an inch of snow overnight. Lots of birds around this morning. Robins, Grackles, Red-winged Blackbirds, Starlings and some Rusty Blackbirds. Rusty Blackbirds are extremely endangered. I see them in the spring when they migrate through headed north. I have not seen any for the last two years. I was happy to see and shoot some this morning. Here are a few pictures.  Dave

03 19 2024 Dave Cesari

03 19 2024 Dave Cesari

03 19 2024 Dave Cesari

03 19 2024 Dave Cesari

03 19 2024 Dave Cesari

03 19 2024 Dave Cesari

03 19 2024 Dave Cesari

I looked at the ferry camera on Drummond Isalnd this morning – a big snow storm was happening – Oh my – so I wondered what TGO would look like in a snow storm:

JEB -TGO in a late March snow storm!

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – I urge you to enjoy what you see – even if it is snow in TGO!

Sometimes it is fun to completely erase any line between photography and art!

JEB 3/8/2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – in a broader sense I encourage you to enjoy the art of life.