Linear Green
I am in California for a few days and because I am using my iPad and iPhone for work and connectivity, keeping up with this blog is a little more challenging – especially the photo editing. But I’ll try to do my best. This photo was taken a few blocks from my aunt’s house and [...]
Painted
You tell me the evolutionary intent of colorful tree trunks. Could it be to lure tourists to Maui from places like South Dakota, where trees tend to be utilitarian and bland?
Windfall
I guess I kind of like the “lone gold leaf” theme. This time I found a single leaf stuck to the hood of a gray car. Other gold leaves: Aspen Leaf Frozen In Time Before the Fall
Frosty Colony
I talk from time to time about chaos and patterns in nature. When you move the camera lens in close to something, it’s hard not to see things that you would otherwise miss. As I was preparing this photo I was wondering about the “why” and “where” of the formation of frost crystals. And why [...]
An Abandoned World
This piece of coral was lying on a beach in Mexico that was covered with pieces of coral. I’m not sure what causes coral to wash up, or even what coral like this looked like when it was thriving in it’s undersea world. But I do know that the many small structure make for good [...]
The Other Half
One half ended up diced for our clam chowder soup. The other half ended up on the blog. I hadn’t planned on taking a food photo but the symmetrical design struck me as worth of a closer look. This was shot with a 100mm macro lens in light that filtered in through our patio doors. [...]
Pretty? Yes. Creative? Probably Not.
So the assignment I gave my students last week was to capture South Dakota winter but to be “creative” in doing so. Of course, what complicates this assignment is what is meant by creative, though to me being creative as a photographer is partly being able to frame and capture something in ways no one [...]
Chaos?
I had been out in our back yard shooting photos of things covered in thick frost, when I encountered this jumble of pine needles growing out of a small, bushy tree. There was something about the exuberant randomness of the needles that caught my attention. Of course the crystals of frost and the way pine [...]
Summer Blue
For the last two days it has been foggy and because of the snow cover, it has been mostly white. So I went looking for pictures of summer and this is what I found. I suspect that this is one of those photos that has more meaning to me than anyone else. (Translation: it’s not [...]
A Study In Green
I was wandering through the French Quarter and I bumped in to the Louisiana Supreme Court Building. I took several photos but this is one I liked the most. This is an iPhone photo and I’ll admit that this photo is heavily doctored. I started in an app called Filter Mania and finished in Instagram. [...]
Dark Symmetry
This palm left caught my eye as I walked along the narrow path that took to the little beach a mile down from our resort in Mexico last week. I have photographed palm leaves before but I wanted to try again, this time concentrating on the radial pattern and also trying to manipulate depth of [...]
Same Old Sun, Different Day
Well, I liked the quality of light so much in the photo I posted yesterday that I went back to the same spot 6 mornings in a row to see if I could get something better. In particular, I wanted more shoreline water to show. And this is my next best effort. The casual observer [...]
The Wine-Dark Sea
“The wine-dark sea” is an epithet that Homer used to describe the Aegean Sea. I doubt that Homer’s Odysseus ever sailed the waters off of the Yucatan Peninsula, but if he had, would he have heard the sirens’ song as I have? Or the mermaids singing? And now, because I can’t stop the chain of [...]
Another Universe
There’s nothing like a macro photo to give you a look at a little universe that could easily be overlooked.
Pink
As fall turns to winter, I start thinking about the transience of seasons. Where did summer go?
The Skeleton & the Man In the Moon
I was out chasing the moon and the sunrise a while back and I captured this. I’m not sure I like the composition. Or the title for the blog post. But I do like the purple-hued sky. And I like the full moon, of course, which has faired better over time than the windmill.
Red
Somebody gave my wife a dozen roses, which gave me a photo opportunity. Did I buy the flowers? Nope. Kim did.
Fall Reflections
I was looking at some photos I took while staying overnight in a picture perfect town in Washington named Gig Harbor. I had passed this one over, in part because out of the camera it looked a little drab. But, thanks to a little help from my friends (Aperture and Photoshop) this photo is filled [...]
Fat Cats
I was on the way home after a fairly successful photographic outing north of Watertown. And, once again, lost in thought, I had driven about 50 yards by this scene, which had registered subliminally, before I realized I had passed a photo opportunity. So I backed up and took a few photos. I love backlit [...]
Moonset Over Hills & Trees
The moon is real. The hills are real. And so are the trees and the freshly worked field. But the photo is Photoshopped. So is the photo real? While I’m at it, I might as well ask if “moonset” is a real word? (PS: Have you adjusted your camera clock time to correspond to the [...]
Aspen Leaf
I was out in the backyard looking for HDR (high dynamic range) opportunities. I was looking for subjects that had a broad contrast from very bright and very dark. The first thing I saw was an assortment of aspen leaves, which had just fallen during the night. I liked the how the backlighting accentuated the [...]
Green Waves
I was going out to get something from my pickup truck when I noticed that the hosta leaves in a little garden patch outside our front door were backlit by the low sun. So, I forgot my original mission and went and got my camera. I think I took 30 photos but this one, after [...]
Out By Lonesome Lake (LATI Festival of Trees Choice)
One of the good things about my job is that when I give a photo assignment I often go out and do the assignment myself. Such was the case this past weekend. My particular mission was to shoot an HDR photo or two. I have spent about 10 hours on this task and, of the [...]
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