Back in West Virginia today. I found this new crop of yellow flowers and thought they looked nice. I took a lot of photos but none of them really popped for me. I’ve grown a little weary of the yellow against green color scheme and I had that in abundance in these shots. Just ho-hum. Then I discovered a little…
Tag: vignette
365-251 Some things old
I just found myself shooting a bunch of old things today. Besides the door, which is I saw in an urban environment, everything else was taken at an outdoor display area at a local antique store. the store was closed and the items were behind a locked fence so getting any kind of composition was difficult at best. I stuck…
365-248 I’m surprised I am awake
Did you ever have one of those days where you just feel sleepy all day? Today is one of days for me. A holiday, constant heavy rain, cooler temperatures and dark and gloomy. I slept in this morning so I should be well rested but I’m just feeling sluggish. On days like this when you have things to do it’s…
365-224 Nature is nice
I know I have been shooting creatures lately and while it has been fun it has also been a challenge. Trying to get artsy compositions of animals and insects is really difficult. So I’ll probably go back to normal subject matter after today. I much prefer shooting architectural details, old things and abstracts. It helps that stuff doesn’t move when…
365-148 Speaking of crows
I took a very nice picture of my neighbors roses today. My thought was to use it for my 365 shot. That was until I parked my truck in a shopping center parking lot next to someones half eaten burrito. There were some small birds munching on a tortilla chip, which was amusing enough, but they soon got chased away…
365-45 On the street
I didn’t purposely avoid doing a Valentines theme for today but I thought there would be plenty of others covering that. So instead, a street picture for today. Not a cool city street shot taken with a Leica but a picture of a car on the street in a small town taken with a Lumix LX-3. Well, at least it has a Leica lens! I…
365-27 Urban abstract
I thought I would go slightly abstract today. This door is on the second floor of a building in town. I tried for a different angle when shooting. Processed in PSE6 with Nik Silver Efex conversion and then I brought the blue of the glass back through. Shot with my Pentax K20D and DA17-70 Blue Glass Fall
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There is an old railroad station in town that is pretty much intact even though it hasn’t been used as such for decades. The building is owned by a cement company which is adjacent to it. I think they just use it for storage. There has been talks that it should be used for something but that’s about how far…
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Out shopping today instead of shooting. I saw this balloon on the ceiling at a mall, two stories above the children’s play area. Had to do a little work in PSE6 with curves, contrast, etc. to get it looking halfway nice. Still a little noisy but not too bad. Shot with the Lumix LX-3. Toy Go Bye-bye
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I didn’t really find much to work with today. I got up late, only went to the grocery store and didn’t see much on my way there and back. My wife has a large collection of angel items and I shot this with my Super-Takumar 50mm. Nik b&w conversion, layers to return gold to angel and finally a SkeletalMess texture to add…