That’s the way I felt today when I was out and trying to find a photo subject. After a while I just quit and gave up on the idea. I didn’t want to go out of may way to maybe find a new subject and just waste gas chasing something I wasn’t even sure was there. So I just relaxed…
Tag: DA17-70mm
365-89 Fun, well not really, with plastic
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…
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…
365-86 Awkward shooting and gear
When I parked my car at a restaurant today, this was the scene in front of me. There is a small bank up towards the tree which exaggerated the shadow. I placed the camera near the ground in the shadow and shot blindly towards the tree. A case where an articulating LCD would come in handy. As a matter of fact, I…
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…
365-81 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…
365-80 Kind of a crazy place
My 365 shot is of the former Western Center (Western State School and Hospital) near Pittsburgh, PA. I thought I would get a picture of it since I was in the area. The facility closed a few years ago and, suspiciously soon after, the land was sold to a nearby affluent office park development. I’m sure there wasn’t any backhanded political…
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…
365-76 Another day of nothing
Couldn’t find much to shoot today. I took a few photos around town and ended up liking these pillars the best. Pentax K20D, DA17-70. Strength
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