With my focus for the next few days being on the Christmas holiday, I’ll be taking a break from the blog. I doubt if I’ll get out in the next couple of days to take any meaningful photos anyhow so I won’t bore you with second-rate images. OK make that third-rate, since most of my work lately has been second-rate. I’ll probably…
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The man with the ham(burger)
Just your average 20′ cowboy with a burger statue. I stopped in a convenience store parking lot to make a conference call for work today and the whole time I sat in my truck looking at this giant cowboy, which sits at the restaurant next door to the store. I’ve seen it a few times before and always thought of grabbing…
Sticks
In my never-ending quest to get out and purposely do more photography I have been failing miserably. Between work and just general household time I haven’t been able to make a day of just shooting and it’s been frustrating me. As a guitar player I know that the more I play, the better I get. The same goes for photography.…
While I am here
I was waiting for a train at a crossing the other day, just watching the cars roll by. I happened to look out of my right window and I saw this lovely creature watching me watch the train. It was a nice dreary rainy day with dark but soft light and I couldn’t help but to take a portrait. Cattle…
Another photo
In black and white, as promised. Somewhat of an industrial abstract. I like the texture of the rusted metal, which works particularly well in black and white. And speaking of black and white, don’t forget to check out my photo on page 218 in the current issue of Black & White magazine (#95) as mentioned in my last post, available…
Look for me on the newsstands now
A few months back I asked readers for their opinion on some black and white images I was submitting to a contest. I ended up choosing four images to submit, some being favorites of readers and friends and one being a personal favorite. Well last month I found out that at least one of my images was accepted to be…
Just a thing
I see lots of things when I am out and about and todays photo is one of them. The bathtub in the field is an almost normal sighting in rural areas. A place for water or feed for livestock, I imagine. Most times they are near the barn or at least in the immediate vicinity, but this one wasn’t near…
December will be black and white month
In honor of a special announcement that I will make in a later post, I am going to post nothing but black and white images all month. Some may be new, some may be from the archives. Yes, that’s right, no colorful holiday photos. But I will most likely have holiday theme photos later in the month and you’ll just have…
Imagined blur
A gimmick. Processing trickery. Whatever you want to call it, we have all seen the so-called “miniature” effect where the image is artificially blurred at the top and bottom creating the illusion of a miniature scene captured with the narrow depth of field of a macro lens. It works well with a shot from a skyscraper looking down on the…
I went to the cemetery expecting to shoot black and white
But after I got home and reviewed the images I found that a majority of them worked better in color. Maybe it was because it was nearing sunset and the light was nice or maybe because I just wasn’t seeing the textures I was expecting. Either way it was a decent shoot considering I spent barely a half hour there.…
What I Pic 