This week’s photo shoot was cancelled due to windy showery weather so I had to revert to last weeks images from the Quaker Garden in Santa Fe. I’m always a sucker for bicycles and the door with the heart behind it made this one special. This is another case where I intentionally over processed the… Continue reading Bicycle
Lilac
One of the gifts of photography is that it helps me to see things in a new way. How many of us, when we look at a lilac bush, see the individual blossoms or the tiny buds waiting to burst into bloom? This image was taken with my 100mm macro lens with a canon D250… Continue reading Lilac
Saw Blade Abstract
I headed up to Embudo this week to revisit the Classical Gas Museum. My primary mission was to collect some grungy textures from the many old gas pumps with all manner of peeling paint and rust. On my previous visit I had taken a picture of these rusty saw blades and never could do anything… Continue reading Saw Blade Abstract
White Pansey with texture
Before After Pansies are one of my favorite flowers. While I like to try to fill the frame in my flower images it is a little hard to do with a pansy without losing something important. It seems that adding textured backgrounds to flower images is all the rage these days so I thought I… Continue reading White Pansey with texture
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
Mating Dance
Before After A few years ago I learned that when the Sandhill Cranes leave Bosque del Apache they stop off in Colorado’s San Luis Valley for a few weeks and it is there that they do their mating dance. The dance is said to renew the bonds with lifetime mates or establish new bonds for… Continue reading Mating Dance
Phonograph
Bored, bored, bored. Unsettled weather, nothing in bloom, winter subjects exhausted. I have been looking for a three day window of decent weather (i.e. no snow) so I can get up to Colorado and try to find some Sandhill Cranes doing their mating dance. It looks like I may finally make it Sunday through Tuesday… Continue reading Phonograph
Lily Abstract
In my longing for spring I picked up a bouquet of yellow lilies at the grocery store on Monday. This has turned out to be the gift that keeps on giving as every day there are fresh new blooms and I feel compelled to drag out the camera and tripod once more. This image was… Continue reading Lily Abstract
Bosque del Apache
If you are any kind of nature photographer you must know that the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near San Antonio, NM is one of the iconic locations to photograph birds. Since moving to New Mexico I have made the two hour trek to the Bosque 9 times. Some years I made it twice,… Continue reading Bosque del Apache