I am moving this site to a new site that includes my online portfolio/galleries as well as a store where purchases of select prints can be made. This blog going forward will be on the new site as well. You can find it here: http://www.bruceatracy.com/blog I am editing/updating and re-posting some of the articles from [...]

Changing your point of view can provide an interesting image of a subject that would otherwise be rather boring. In this image, a sunflower stalk becomes the “bean stalk” in Jack and the Bean Stalk. I wonder if there is a giant at the top of this one! There is! A giant sunflower head that [...]

Ok, slap my hands, I’ve not been very good at posting here lately! Sorry. Anyway, a few days ago I was reading about a creative technique when shooting fireworks, so I decided I would give it a try. The technique is really simple, rotate the focus ring on the lens while holding the shutter open. [...]

Click on the image to see a larger size. This is a fairly simple restoration project, especially when using Photoshop CS5 with content aware fill tools. The first step in restoring a photo like this, is to get a good image of it for a starting point. This particular image presented some challenges here because [...]

The first car show of the year occurred this last Friday at Fatso’s Diner here in Loveland. Even though it was a car show, there were motorcycles at the show too! This image is of a very cool chopper. Again, this is one of those images that I didn’t bother to look through the view [...]

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that Amazon has Lightroom version 3 (the full version) at 70% off today. That is a sweet deal for Leap Day! It makes the price $89.99 which is the same as the education discount except you don’t have to prove your a student or teacher. If you [...]