About


When I was young, I hated having my picture taken. My dad owned a Canon AE-1 Program that he purchased before his trip to the Middle East in the 1970s, so I grew up with an SLR camera (vs. point-and-shoot). It was in high school that I started taking lots of pictures of my own.

During my first year of college, I took a photography course over interim. It was then that I finally learned about aperture and shutter speed, composition, light, depth of field, etc. I was even taught how to develop film and make my own prints in the darkroom. I loved it.

Throughout college, the camera and I captured almost everything on film, from band tours to birthday parties. During my senior year, I joined the school’s newspaper as a staff photographer and enjoyed applying my hobby to something relevant.

After college, I longed for a digital SLR. When my 101-year-old grandmother passed away in December 2005, she left me an inheritance with which I was able to purchase my first digital camera and have been taking more photographs than ever before.

I soon became intrigued by the concept of a photo blog. To post a different photo everyday would give me the opportunity to critique and improve upon my work and then share it with others. I posted my first entry on August 22, 2006 and have been repeating that process daily ever since.

Enjoy!
Kat

Viewing

Photos are displayed at a maximum width or height of 500 pixels in order for the eye to view the whole composition. To see a photo in a larger version, click anywhere on the photo itself and you will be taken to its page on Flickr. From there, you can view the photo in different sizes. For maximizing the viewing space on your PC screen, hit the F11 key to maximize the internet browser’s window.

Photo Details/EXIF Data

If you are interested in a photo’s detailed properties—ISO, shutter speed, aperture, focal length—click on the photo in question and you will be taken to its page on Flickr. Once there, scroll down and click on “More properties” located on the right-hand side to view the photo’s EXIF data.

Usage

I’m cool with sharing my photos (that is, after all, the point of this photoblog), but if you plan to use any of my photos in any way (screensaver, desktop image, posting on your own site, etc), please let me know. Just leave me a comment.

All images are copyright ©2009 Katherine Singer. E-mail me with any questions or comments: kat@katsinger.com