I am a writer. I haven’t made much money with my craft, even though that is my desire, but still I write. I’m not the greatest, nor will I go down in history as the greatest. Even knowing this, I still work to hone my craft, to fine tune it, to become better, to become the best writer I possibly can. Maybe one day my writing will support me, but until that day comes, I write.

I’ve been away from my blog for a while.  Just get lazy, is all.  I’m going to try and be more current and active.  I know I’ve said this before, but I’m really gonna try this time.  I like the idea of a blog, but life gets in the way and it just falls to the side.

I am so happy, after being off the web for a year and half, sultaz.com is finally back.  I was able to obtain the name again.  Check back later for updates to my site.

Who the greatest artist of all time is, has been debated for years and will continue to be debated as new artist appear on the scene.  I would like to name the ultimate artist, the greatest ever.  Her name is Mother Nature.

Mother Nature has been painting and creating great works of art for longer than man has existed.  She uses a wide ranging pallet of colors and mixes them into breath taking images.  She is my favorite artist of all time and I dare someone to point to a better one.

What is art? That is a question not easily answered. One man’s art is another man’s garbage and vice-versa. Take Jackson Pollock as an example.

Jackson Pollock has a devout following of art lovers who adore his work.  I, on the other hand, am not as impressed. Some of his work isn’t bad, but anyone with a paint brush can drizzle some paint.  Maybe I am being overly critical, but, nevertheless, that is my opinion.  On the other hand, artists such as Salvador Dali required immense amount of talent to compose the works that he created.

What do you think?

I have a major certification test to study for and a thesis paper to write, so I will be stepping away from this site for the next couple of months.

Check back periodically for updates.

Thank you for your support.

The rule of thirds is a common, and one of the most basic, rules in photography.  Basically this rule merely states that the view finder is divided into thirds and then your goal, as the photographer, is to avoid the center third of the image.  This is the rule at it’s most simplistic form.  Allow me illustrate.

Below is one of my images, divided into thirds.

In this image you will see that there are two sets of thirds, the vertical thirds and the horizontal thirds.  Which portion you decide to put your focal point is entirely on you.  Your goal is to make the image as visually appealing as possible.  In this case, I felt that the road had much more character than the plain blue sky, so I position my focal point, the converging lines near the center-top third of the image.

The arrow points to my focal point in this image.  If the road had been plain and the sky was filled with puffy white clouds, then my focal point could have been moved to the bottom-center third.  We would have seen little of the road and had lots of blue sky and puffy clouds.

As with all rules, this one is not set in stone.  By all means, if the image lends itself to being centered, do it.