With the warmer temperatures the past few days, it at least feels like spring. Feels is all we have so far, because it still looks like a warm day in February. But I’ll take it. It’s still a step in the right direction. With a few days off from work and some intermittent remodeling work inside the house aside, I had…
Tag: nature
Not far from the hole
Back on February 2nd, the groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said spring was around the corner. Well it IS spring and it still feels like winter. Considering I don’t live too far from his “hole”, I have to say that varmint doesn’t know what he is talking (talking?) about! Other than that, I have been well and waiting for the transformation into…
Really? Has it been a week?
Wow, time flies when you’re not posting! I haven’t posted in a week mostly because I haven’t taken any photographs. A few snaps here and there but not much of any value. And I am not really sure if this photo is any value but I do like the scene. The colors in the original were all muted, basically a…
It was a day in September
I’ve been gradually cleaning my files out over the past week, getting rid of a lot of junk photos that were just taking up space. I do a lot of test shots when I get new gear and after using them for evaluation, they don’t really serve a need any longer, yet I always forget to delete them. So on occasion…
Paint by numbers
I was playing around with adding textures to this photo I took in the local park and I was reminded of the “paint by numbers” I used to do when I was young. In a way I am still painting by numbers, except now they are all ones and zeros. Digital painting. Digits? Fingers? Finger painting! It all comes together eventually.
Drip
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The color of muddy
I’m not one for talking dirty but how about a little mud in your eye? There’s nothing like a good rainfall on a January day in the West Virginia hills to stir up a little mud. Of course, artistically it leaves a lot to be desired. Just a monotone brown color oozing everywhere. But I found a colorful tree to add a little…
Animal planet
The suburban wildlife just seems happy to pose for me lately. In this case I swung by the local cemetery to try out some of my manual focus lenses but I took along my telephoto zoom also, just in case. I was really there to test my ability to use my manual lenses in a speedy manner. I love my old…
You got to moo(ve) it
Another rural portrait of a willing subject. I seem to be hitting the livestock jackpot lately. Shooting a black bull (cow?) against a white landscape and sky certainly presents its own set of problems. Fortunately my subject was patient while I experimented with different exposures. I first did a normal black and white conversion after doing some contrast adjustments and dodging the…
More river time
Another shot from down by the river. Although I never set out to take bird-duck-geese photos, whenever I see them I want to take photos of them for some reason. And the photos are fairly straightforward shots – the kind you get by simply taking snapshots, not sitting in a blind all day with a super-telephoto lens. Mine are more like the…
What I Pic 