Better framed version:
Abstract
Dandelion
Grain, grain, go away…
Typically I try to remove grain and noise from photos but I like it here.
Light and dark
Sometimes rain brings out a richness that’s too good to pass up. This is another photo I took in color but saw in black and white.
Rain, rain…
What to do on a rainy day? Photograph droplets. I’m not sure how successful this image is but it was fun capturing it. I used a long-focus lens wide open to create the shallow depth of field. 1/100 of a second shutter speed to allow the drops to streak.
Morning’s First Light
I don’t know how productive it will be but I’m practicing one-handed shooting with a point-and-shoot camera while taking my dog for his morning walk. So imagine me with a dog leash in one hand, the camera in the other and me being pulled in the middle. This was today’s capture.
Words of…
I came upon this tree and saying in Oakwood Cemetery. I stripped out the color from the original image by adding Adobe Lightroom’s “Red Hi-Contrast Filter” preset. What may (or may not) be obvious is the other photoshopping I did to the image to increase the “canvas” size around the carving to make it more horizontal that it actually was in real life.
(I have gone back to re-shoot it and this version does not have the expanded canvas. I have put a smaller copy of the photoshopped version down below.)
Here’s a wider shot of what the tree looks like. The rope hanging from the branch is a nice “touch”. I’m guessing / hoping that it was from an old swing. How long the chair has been there is anybody’s guess.
Oh, like me you’re probably asking yourself “What does it say?”. My best guess is this:
“WE ARE HERE TO CREATE NOT MERELY SURVIVE”
Monarch Night
I shot this one back in the fall (Sept. 2015). It was a fun experiment seeing how long the Monarch would tolerate being held and photographed. The little guy was a great subject allowing me to play with all sorts of flash/drag-shutter images. You can see more in the FB gallery here.