Daniel Greene

Category: Photography

Posts with photos, about photos, and about photography itself

  • We’re not afraid to say it: Happy Chanukah!

    Our home’s chanukiah (the proper term for a Chanukah menorah) on the first night of Chanukah. It’s displayed prominently in the front kitchen window, facing the street.

    The title of this photo is a reference to some Christian people’s response to secularism, in particular, a BBQ restaurant sign in Nashville, TN I photographed that said, "We’re not afraid to say it: Merry Christmas!"

    By the way, those are multicolored LED Christmas lights reflecting off the chrome of the chanukiah. We are an "interfaith" couple; besides, I grew up celebrating Christmas in a secular or, let’s be honest about it, pagan way. What’s all the fuss about anyway, folks? Don’t know know why Christmas, Chanukah, and Ramadan are all around the same time? They are religious overlays to a pagan foundation of celebrating the winter solstice! If you ask me, we’re all just trying to cheer ourselves up by lighting candles, stringing lights, and giving gifts at this, the darkest and coldest time of the year.

  • Landscape of Canyon Lake


    Landscape of Canyon Lake
    Originally uploaded by danielgreene.

    I know I’ve been a bad blogger lately, but if you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, I’ve been delving into my hobby of photography. If you’d like to see what I’ve been seeing and shooting, click on the photo above to look at my photos on Flickr.

     

  • Happy at the End of Photo Stroll

    Sunday evening, I took a photo stroll in Cave Creek, AZ, with four other Flickr members.

    I took exactly 100 photos during our excursion, and spent almost two hours looking over them and deleting those I didn’t like. I am amazed that I liked 33 of them enough to keep them; that’s about 1/3! I suppose I could pick only 10 favorites if I had to, but 10% is still great! Photography is turning out to be a lot of fun.

  • Portrait of Andy “Headshot Style”

    This is a crop and edit of an original photo I took of Andy. The other one looked so much like an actor’s headshot to me, I decided to crop it in 8 x 10 format. I also edited out the blurred light bar that was sticking out behind his head.

  • Blossoming Pink Vinca


    Blossoming Pink Vinca.
    Originally uploaded by danielgreene.

    I got a new camera, my first SLR (single lens reflex — the kind of full-featured camera that uses interchangeable lenses), and I’ve been taking loads of pictures with it. Click on the picture of the flower above if you’d like to see more of my photos.