A Stony Gaze
Many of the photos I have posted recently have been resurrected from a fairly large collection of old digital files that have been languishing in a virtual closet. They are a little like old, worn t-shirts that have great sentimental value but should really be turned into rags. My wife even tells me that if [...]
Dubrovnik’s Stradun
I have several photos I took in and around Durbrovnik, Croatia, and when I post them here, I wonder how many tens of thousands of other tourists have photos from the same location. But anyone who has wondered the same thing knows that there is something special about having your own pictures. It is perhaps [...]
Saving His Skin
I took this photo several years ago when I led a Watertown High School student trip to Rome. We had a free afternoon and one of my students and I made the trip to the church of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome. This church is remarkable in many ways but I was captured by [...]
The African Gallery
Just beyond the pottery featured in yesterday’s post I encountered this scene. Maybe it’s not at special as I think it is, but I liked how the human on the left complemented the figure on the right. It results in symmetry that would be absent with the standing woman. [smugbuy gallery="http://scottshephardphoto.smugmug.com/PhotoBlog/A-Picture-A-Day-01-2012/21097259_fhXzjV"]
Fixed Orbits
In this case I was confronted by this collection of pottery at the beginning of the museum’s African collection. The spherical shape and the brilliant arrangement of these pots reminded me of circling planets. Thus the title of today’s post. [smugbuy gallery="http://scottshephardphoto.smugmug.com/PhotoBlog/A-Picture-A-Day-01-2012/21097259_fhXzjV"]
Magic Mask
New Orleans is gearing up for Mardi Gras and so some of the shops along Bourbon and Royal streets are stocked with masks. This one struck my fancy because of its color, though I’ll admit that the processing for this one (as with yesterday’s post) involved some pretty strong software filters.
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. [...]
Tiny Dancer
I am going on my third full day in New Orleans and I still haven’t found what I would called a “brilliant” photo. Nor has one found me. In analyzing this, I realized that when I’m not attending the photo conference I am at, I am more tourist than photographer. And there’s a difference. The [...]
Bourbon Street Musicians
There was very strong sunlight backlighting this bluegrass group and I wasn’t sure how my camera would handle it, but I think it turned out OK. I wouldn’t normally shoot into the sun as much as I did in this photo but I guess this is a good example of the “what have you got [...]
Who Dat?
How about a group portrait of 4 of my second year Photo/Media students? And how about posing them in the famous Lafayette Cemetery #1 in the Garden District of New Orleans? Perfect!
Spiral Stairs
Is this a chambered nautilus shell? No, it’s a carved stone spiral staircase in the “government building” in the amazing German town named Rothenburg o.d.T.
He Runs; I Don’t
As I stood on the beach, camera in hand, I waited for something to make this beach scene a little more interesting. Off in the distance, I saw a figure running towards me along the shoreline. A fit athlete? Even better, a fit female athlete? In a bikini? No. Instead, it was an older man [...]
Infinity
Soft, blue and pink morning light as seen from the window seat on a plane bound for Mexico.
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 [...]
Humane Society?
Compositionally, this isn’t a very good photo. But journalistically it gets by because it does tell a story, even if you didn’t know that is was taken along the Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain. It is a photo of a mendicant (more rudely, a beggar) and his best friends. I suspect that some may ask [...]
Ambulanza
This is what a Venetian ambulance looks like. The pilot races down the Grand Canal, weaving through gondola traffic. And he looks cool and poised in his Italian sunglasses. . .
Pelekes Beach, Corfu (Greece)
This little beach is tucked in against the fairly steep western central banks of the Greek island of Corfu. Corfu doesn’t match the stereotypic view the of Greek islands. It isn’t real glitzy. Whitewashed buildings are not the norm. And the place isn’t over run by tourists. It’s a wonderful destination.
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