Perhaps you have heard the story Acres of Diamonds made famous by Russell Conwell. It’s a tale of a farmer who was so obsessed with the idea of finding diamonds and becoming rich that he sold his farm and spent the rest of his life in a tragic, hopeless search for diamonds, while the man… Read more »
Posts By: Michael Baker
Today’s photo is just ducky…
It’s going to be a great spring, isn’t it? With the change in daylight saving time, there is an extra hour of daylight left after work. And this is greatest time of year with an abundance of waterfowl and birds in full plumage that will be migrating through the area. While this late Winter photo… Read more »
I think that I shall never see…
I was looking back at some of my older photos this evening. It seems that I still have trees on my mind from my previous post. I came across this shot from two years ago. There is something about an individual tree in a photo that appeals to me. We might have to start a… Read more »
Five steps for taking great photos…
Finally! This is the time of year that the weather will finally begin breaking here in central Minnesota. The urge to get out with the camera is becoming too strong to ignore. I started to look through some of my past year’s photos to see where I’d been and what I’d shot, and suddenly came… Read more »
Photography, Physical Activity and Top Ten Lists
The Web is littered these days with ‘Top-Something’ lists, isn’t it? It doesn’t take much looking around to find them. My interest in Top-Ten or Top-100 lists, etc, was to see if I could find some type of Top-Ten reason to induce me to actually open the camera bag I faithfully carry around with me… Read more »
The Internet… decisions, decisions, decisions.
Things change. Nothing in life is static. Both my interest in photography and the Internet have changed considerably over the past years. Part of this change started for me with the changes in photography from film to digital. I really did rediscover photography after getting my first digital camera. Now I happily click away and… Read more »
Using NextGen Gallery
This page has a number of examples of options available to display photos in a WordPress blog. If you use WordPress, these plugins work fantastically. [All the examples on this page use the NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin. See listing at end of this page for links and further instructions.] Option 1: ‘Gallery’. Displays thumbnails with… Read more »