I have been experimenting with several photographic techniques in recent months. Now that we are between travels, I can spend some time in my studio. I thought I would share a few images from last night’s session. These are all macro images of ice cubes. I used distilled water, then injected a small amount of […]
Travels to Iran (Video)
We traveled to Iran in 2019, spending two weeks traveling the country. We were concerned about going. We expected drab, dreary automatons, afraid of the outside world and hating Americans and a hostile part of the world. We were completely wrong about every aspect of Iran that we had preconceptions about. Instead of being a […]
Cuenca Soup Kitchen Santa 2021
Cuenca Soup Kitchen is one of our favorite charities in Ecuador. We have written about them before in our blog, and encourage others to help their main mission of providing food, clothing, and other necessities to Ecuadorians and refugees in need. They are currently serving 175 families, but there are 300 more on the waiting […]
Photographer Of The Year 2019
Last month, I was surprised when people started sending me congratulatory email and Face Book messages, as well as congratulating me on the street. Maybe they were commenting on the photo show Evelyn and I had completed the prior month… but then why the month delay? To my surprise, I discovered that I had just […]
Evelyn Wins First Place – Christmas Photo Contest
Christmas in Cuenca culminated with Evelyn being selected as the winner of the Cuenca Dispatch and CuencaHighLife Christmas photo contest. The winning photo shows a girl holding a candle at the annual International Chorale Christmas concert, seen above. December is always a busy month for us in Cuenca. There are always so many choices that all […]
Photo Show Opening Dec 2018
Last night was the opening reception for Burt and Evelyn Johnson’s first photo exhibition in Cuenca, Ecuador, at the Miguel Illescas Gallery. It was called Ecuador y Más: Su tierra y su gente (the land and the people), and presented images from three photographers: Michael Hamilton, Burt Johnson and Evelyn Johnson. All three are retired […]
Vermont Fall Foliage, Part 2
Despite the pastoral farms and seemingly endless rolling hills, Vermont has several dense, spread out cities and towns, and it is hard to find truly dark skies, as needed for good star photography. A few feet from where we photographed the light-painted island yesterday, there was a partially shielded area that allowed us to capture […]
Vermont Fall Foliage, Part 1
Seeing the Fall Colors in New England has been on our travel list for years. We decided to go this year, which was precipitated by my camera falling onto a granite rock during a windstorm in Namibia in July. That required it to be sent to the Sony repair facility (who fixed it under warranty!), […]
Vistazo Magazine Article on Burt
Vistazo is an Ecuadorian news magazine. The issue with yesterday’s cover date (October 20, 2016) has an article about three photographers in Cuenca, of which Burt is the first listed. They asked for a few of my photographs to illustrate their article celebrating Cuenca’s upcoming Independence Day, plus a few quotes from me around which […]
Brag – Winners…Life in Retirement…
This post is a bit of a personal brag for both of us. You have already read about the Mayor’s Gallery Art Reception this past Friday, and the Cuenca Art Walk 2016 that followed during the weekend. El Mercurio is a major Spanish Language Cuenca newspaper that we follow (usually from Jeanne’s daily English translations […]