A little creature I spotted in a mailbox. Poor guy has a part of a leg missing. This shot was an instant black and white moment.The spider was yellowish and the black metal reflecting the daylight was bluish so I knew right away that I could get a nice contrast in black and white. B&W is fun when there are…
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All I need is a hand
I like these kind of ph0tos. A wide-angle shot of a close-up subject with the surroundings receding into the background. An environmental portrait of sorts. The challenge is finding suitable subjects in a suitable environment. I don’t like to arrange photos so when I look for subjects I shoot them how I find them. So it has to be a “complete…
Enough with the negativity
I know I am probably too hard on myself, not only with my photography, but in almost everything I do. I am, as they say, my own worst critic. I don’t think I am too negative though, I do believe I do a number of things quite well, it’s just that I think I don’t do them well enough. Enough…
iClassic culture
I say it here quite often that I’m not a fan of phone photography. I have seen good examples of what some folks can do with a phone, but quality wise the things just bug me. A ten year old point and shoot digital camera still runs circles around even the best phone cameras. I look at them more for…
One more week to go!
One more week of my daily July posts to go! My oh my, where does the time go? 🙂 Not soon enough I’m sure, not only to you poor readers but to myself also. As I mentioned previously, not only is it difficult to come up with that many interesting photos but coming up with something to say about them,…
An autumn day in July
No, I’m not talking about the weather, although last weekend was a little cool and wet. I’m talking about todays photo which was taken on an autumn day back in 2009. Digging through the archives again on this slow photo day and I thought I would dig a little further back. Not too far back, this isn’t Throwback Thursday, which…
Listen to me, I say
I really couldn’t think of anything to title todays post because the photo didn’t really lend itself to anything snappy. But after describing my photo and how it came about , I replaced my usual temporary filler text of “blah, blah”. Good thing. An interesting old tombstone stockpile I shot in Charleston a little while back. I find the designs, textures, and colors…
Like a lead balloon
Since my Johnny Winter homage went over like a lead balloon, or Led Zeppelin as I like to say ;-), lets bring it back down into normal photography again. With a horse, of course. A simple black and white image of a horse in the stable getting ready for tour duty with a brand new wash. It looks like I…
Johnny Winter 1944-2014
Johnny Winter, the great blues-rocker guitarist passed away last week at the age of 70. Sad news for me because Johnny was probably the main reason I wanted to pick up the guitar well over 30 years ago and learn to play the blues. Although I got turned on to gads of other guitarists over the years, I still enjoyed…
That’s some good weed, man. (Variations on a flower)
Chicory – Cichorium intybus It’s a wildflower but I think of it as more of a weed. These little blue flowers are quite abundant in southwest Pennsylvania in the summer. They are along almost every road and show up almost overnight in bad lawns (such as my own ;-)) if you wait to long to mow. Weedy as they are, I…
What I Pic 