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Foliage Festival on Creative Arts Thursday/Friday
By: A. Macarthur • 2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS • 155 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
I think I caught the peak colors of autumn on two perfect, late afternoons early this week. I managed close to 100 shots, at least half-or-so of which, I will keep and publish. I used a 10-20mm lens which distorts perspective at its widest angles … a phenomenon that adds just enough visual...
You Can't Get it Right Until You First Get it Wrong on Creative Arts Thursday/Friday
By: A. Macarthur • 2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS • 155 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
Photographing birds can be entirely frustrating or hugely satisfying; I trash many more bird photos than I save, but, I consider each failed shot as "one shot closer to getting a keeper". "You Can't Get it Right Until You First Get it Wrong," is something I have told every photography student...
We're Not in Kansas Any More on Creative Arts Thursday/Friday
By: A. Macarthur • 2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS • 217 Comments • 6 Likes • 5 years ago
Artistic license not only allows at times, the "creative mind" to mess with reality … for me, it frequently encourages it! © A. Mac/A.G. (With apologies to Judy Garland's "Dorothy") Midnight Beachcombers, Cape May, NJ © A. Mac/A.G. Image atop of...
SHORE Thing, a FLUKE … or BOTH on Creative Arts Thursday/Friday
By: A. Macarthur • 2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS • 191 Comments • 8 Likes • 5 years ago
After more than a year of my wife's CANCER DIAGNOSIS, her BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT, $130,000+ and growing CHEMO MEDICATION … my wife and I got to spend a couple of days at the New Jersey shore. Barring a cure for Multiple Myeloma, life will never return to "normal," but, for now, we're doing OK....
In Deference to the "Magic Hour" & the "Cosmos" On Creative Arts Thursday/Friday
By: A. Macarthur • 2025 ~ The CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ON THE NEWSTALKERS • 170 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
In photography, the golden hour/magic hour is the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky. The cosmos is the Universe. Using the word cosmos rather than the word universe implies viewing the...