Here’s one from back in July that I overlooked from the carnival at the county fair. Just a little detail, saturation and warmth on this one. Plus a center highlight and a border.
Category: Whimsy
Day 61- Clock
I drove by this clock many times before I caught on to the fact the all the numbers were 1. Not sure why or what the significance is. The clock graces a former gas station turned Physical Therapy office and appears to keep the correct time if you can get past the ones. I edited… Continue reading Day 61- Clock
Day 57 – Pinwheel
My Brother has these colorful pinwheels in his garden to scare away the birds. The trick is to capture them in a way that you can detect motion but the colors aren’t all blurred together. I might not have noticed them if the wind hadn’t been messing with my flower photography. Serendipity. Post processing was… Continue reading Day 57 – Pinwheel
Day 7 – Parade Entry
This was my favorite entry from the 4th of July parade in Ashland, Oregon. I’m all for patriotism on Independence Day but I also think we Americans need to focus more on being good neighbors and less on being the world’s police force. I also am fully in tune with this fellow’s message on the… Continue reading Day 7 – Parade Entry
Cat
Before After Here is another good exercise in post processing. My photography workshop went to Jackalope, a very fine retail establishment here in Santa Fe, where I came across this very self possessed store cat on duty. He struck such a regal, cattly pose I just had to take his picture. When I got it… Continue reading Cat
Eye Candy
One of the painters in my artist’s group refers to my images as eye candy. I’m sure she means that in the most positive sense and that is how I take it. This image is one that clearly falls into that category. I was taking a workshop on Creative Macro Photography with Photographer Charles Needle… Continue reading Eye Candy
Milk Abstract
It was another week of snarfy winter weather here in New Mexico so my plan to go to the Bosque del Apache was thwarted. My backup plan to go shoot inside the greenhouse at the Albuquerque Botanical Gardens was also twarted by snow or a threat of snow each day. And it was too cold… Continue reading Milk Abstract
Car Museum Composite
A blown out tire put a crimp in my plan to photograph along Route 66 in Texas this week. In fact, when I rolled back into New Mexico on my shiney new tires I had about 10 pictures from Cadillac Ranch and another half dozen or so from a grain elevator that caught my eye… Continue reading Car Museum Composite
Blue Swallow Motel
This one fits into my Route 66 project, my In Search of New Mexico Project and my nostalgia theme. The Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, NM is an iconic and lovingly restored motor court dating to the early 1940’s. I myself was too slow in getting my reservation request in for one of their 12… Continue reading Blue Swallow Motel
Wine Bottles
These wine bottles were found sitting on the window sill of an old adobe building used as a winery at El Rancho de los Golondorinos, now a living history museum. I wanted to highlight the glow of the sun through the bottles. That required opening up a stop or two in the dark room but… Continue reading Wine Bottles