Today started out bad and kind of destroyed my mood for the day. I didn’t go out to shoot anything so I had to look around the house. My wifes plastic hair clip was sitting on a table so I tried some macro shots of it. All shots were done with a Super-Takumar 50mm, wide open except for the last overall shot…
Tag: abstract
365-88 Familiar color scheme
The only place in town that has bright colors and is somewhat clean is an industrial supply warehouse. This is a gate entrance that caught my eye as I was traveling past the building. I think the blue and yellow combination works well for photos. I’m including another picture I took earlier in the year at another location. Both with K20D and…
365-85 Still hanging in there for 365
Some subdued color for today. Bases for birdbaths at a lawn ornament business. I like the “southwest” feel to the shot. The store, an old barn, was actually closed and I shot this through the fence. I’ll throw up a couple extra shots I took there also. All with Pentax K20D and DA55-300 Bases
365-84 One created, one found
A couple “abstracts” for today, and I use that term loosely. For my 365 shot, my wife and I stopped in Starbucks and she tried one of their new mini-deserts, which come in these small cube boxes, for some reason. I was playing around with the empty box and held it up against the blue sky and liked the contrast of the…
365-83 Orange and Blue
Besides being the title of my 365 shot, an abstract detail of a dumpster in front of a former Blockbuster Video store, it’s also the title of an album by Al Di Meola, a phenomenal jazz/fusion guitarist. Orange and Blue is an album that you have to listen from beginning to end to get the full experience. There are individual…
365-82 No traveling today
After a long day yesterday, I just stayed around the house today because I need to catch up with my guitar playing :-). This is a ground cover plant near my fence. I still don’t know what it is. It gets little white flowers in late spring/early summer. I punched the colors up a bit using Topaz Adjust. Shot with my…
365-81 Still water
I don’t come across still water reflections too often so I was thrilled to get this shot. I know the “reflecting trees shot” has been done often, and usually to better effect, but it was fun to try. I had to go to Columbus on business today so I swung by Dawes Arboretum to see what was there. I didn’t expect much…
365-78 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, World and still a slump.
Well, I’m still in a creative slump. I seem to be in a daze when I’m out trying to get a shot. Maybe that’s my problem – “trying”. I seem to get my best shots on a whim, when I’m not trying. I kind of figured that I couldn’t easily take cool pictures one day after another when I started my…
365-77 Another one just like the other one
Yet another day of not finding anything to shoot. A creative slump, I guess. Or maybe I’ve shot just about all there is to shoot around here. A change of scenery is needed, perhaps? That would be nice, I wouldn’t mind taking some palm tree pictures for a change. Okay, that’s not happening anytime soon, so for now you get…
365-75 Workin at the…
Took a few shots at a small, uhm…slightly weathered, manual car wash and took a few detail shots today. I’ll keep the text to a minimum today because, well, there’s not much to say. All with Pentax K20D, DA55-300. Red Brush
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