As if it wasn’t enough pressure to come up with a somewhat interesting photo every day, with my blog being featured on WordPress Freshly Pressed today I feel like the spotlight is on me now. I was at work and decided to check my emails on my phone and noticed a large number of notification emails about my blog. So using my handy WordPress app, I checked my site stats and noticed my views had skyrocketed. Whoa, what’s going on? I soon discovered that yesterday’s post was featured in Freshly Pressed. Of course it was a post of some flower shots and it didn’t really showcase my usual far out antics 😉 . Cool nonetheless. Well, it was cool until I realized the photos I had taken today up to that point were totally lame. Egads! Talk about pressure! The whole world is watching now. I tried to shoot some small waterfalls on a creek near work and those shots just didn’t work out. The creek area was too cluttered and the lighting was lousy. But if that’s all I had then that’s what I will use, I figured. But as I was starting for home I remembered a large old cemetery nearby that I always wanted to explore. It’s a huge centuries old site and I knew there would be some old textures and details there. After I drove through the large iron gates I traveled down a lane and spotted this nice stone building. The backlighting just made the scene pop and added a bit of “creepiness’ that I like in such shots. I decided to enhance that factor with a toned black and white conversion and a heavy vignette. Pentax K20D, DA17-70.
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One Way Path
© David Guidas
I want to thank everyone that visited my site today. Your visits and comments are greatly appreciated. I promise I will respond to those that commented as soon as I am able. I will also try to visit your sites, as time permits. I want to welcome all of my new subscribers too. I’ll have to warn you though that there will be good days and bad days but in the end I hope you stick around and enjoy the show!
What I Pic 
dark and curiously warm at the same time. great shot. great composition.
Thanks!
The lighting, the shadows, the texture, the focal point, the background. What can I say? I love this photo!
great pov. I like how it’s lower than eye level.
I love the drama of this photo. Such a nice shot! No need to reply to this comment. 🙂
spooky
Wonderful photo, David! Congrats on making Freshly Pressed – well deserved! I checked out your photos on flickr. Wow – they are beautiful!
Thanks Karen. And thanks for exploring more of my work. I’m glad you like it.
Your photos are pretty amazing. Haha, under pressure or not, it’s good stuff right there. 🙂
Those pics are really awesome, man! Congratulations!
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This is an awesome shot, I love the perspective!