Bailout

Had a productive trip to The Dump today.  On a whim brought my camera hoping to see something of interest.  There are a series of haybails along a ridgeline adjacent to the road.  This was framed with a low horizon to emphasize the sky, and the haybail balanced against the sun poking through the late-fall clouds.  By necessity this was shot as an HDR image because of the extreme contrast.  Conversion to black and white served to emphasize the graphic nature of the single bail on the low horizon, and the texture of the clouds.

As I shot this I was also kicking myself that I didn’t have my 10-stop ND filter with me.  Would make a striking image with those clouds transformed into streaks of motion across the sky. Maybe next time.


Frosty

Winters coming.  No doubt about that.  Sun’s coming up later, going down earlier.  Temperature falling.  And the frost is out.  Glanced through the window this morning to see our glass deck panels opaque and glittering with the sun backlighting the whole deal.  The shadow from the adjacent deck rail created an interesting graphic element.  So out I go, in socks, to grab a quick frame.

Creepy

Spider + iPhone + Hipstamatik = Creepy.

Seeing this guy outside my hotel window I felt compelled to make a quick grab. Happy Halloween.

Pile ‘o Leaves

Quick grab from iPhone of a scene that caught my eye. Just like the framing of it, with the precise lines of the brick and metal offsetting the clutter of the gathered leaves. Processed using Nik Software’s Snapseed app on my iPad.

Blue is Nice

I’m on a printing kick right now and have been focusing on our trip to France last year.  As I write this a crisp print of this image is rolling off on a 17×22″ sheet of luxurious photo paper.  I captured this during our trip into amazing Nice last June.  It wasn’t long after leaving the airport that I assigned blue as the color of this beautiful city.  And stopping at a light alongside the boardwalk I looked out onto this scene and quickly framed and snapped from the taxi.  For whatever reason I think of Pete Turner when I look at this.  Not because of the specific color, but rather the vibrance of it along with the fairly minimal composition.  Immediately became one of my favorites.
 
 
And as I finish writing this my print is complete.  Gotta love the digital darkroom.
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