About zen / zen Sutherland  

zen♫'s flickr score: 6114

Yes, Zen is my name - my parents were beatniks (but not enough to put Zen on my birth certificate, they just called me that)

I take my camera everywhere and take photos of nearly everything. That's why i have a lot of shots, and one or two good ones. I am fascinated by light and reflection, so i don't think i'll have a problem when i'm supposed to head for the light after this life is done.

I try very hard and take many photos in order to get the right shot into my camera. I do not use photoshop on the vast majority of my images to enhance or saturate or filter. On the occasion when i do, i so state (and usually sign the work in the corner).

Being on a Mac, i do use GraphicConverter to crop, to brighten, to size and tweak the levels a bit on a photo, but nothing outside what was done traditionally in a darkroom.

I tend to want to see the unseen and try to photograph the unwilling or unwanted. I strive to keep my "beginner eyes." Hopefully the things i have learned about photographing have to do with how to control the camera and not how to "see appropriately."

One of my aims is to capture the commonplace that is also temporary. Things gone tomorrow and only around yesterday.

I also geek out on plants native to North America and the Great Smokies region of the mountains where i live. If you want something identified i'm usually pretty good at the flowers, and only so-so at the woody plants.



I also delete any of the silly "Award" animated-gif comments in my photostream and am an active member of the no-awards group.
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I'm Male and Desperately in Love with Helen.

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Asheville, NC, USA