lookers
Gentleman and I headed up to Lookout Mountain for some fresh air and a quick get away from the house this afternoon. I really like the way these turned out; the lighting was absolutely perfect and yet again I didn’t have to do any post processing.
Here’s a little Colorado peaking through the trees. Not bad for only having 60mm worth of zoom on me at the time.
Soleiana
In the past few months I’ve said “damn, I wish I had my camera” more times than I can count. So I’ve started to carry Oly with me everywhere I go. I’m hoping to capture more of what I see every day while I improve my technique, both manual camera operation as well as post processing.
There’s a group of students that play hack in front of the school almost every day. I was invited to join once, but I kicked the sac on the roof. It took a pyramid of boys to get it back since the school doesn’t carry a good ladder for some reason and since then I’ve been self-banned from playing.
Octoburrr
The first snow fall of 2009 and boy what a doozy! Its been snowing for 2 days and it still hasn’t stopped and even the dog is having a tough time getting around in it.
Lately I’ve been feeling a uninspired by my own photography. To get the creative juices flowing I plug into the internet and look at what others have been doing. There are a few local photographers (other than my close photog friends of course) that inspire me regularly and David Schmidt of 211 Photography (.com) is one of them.
David’s work is always light and playful. When you look through his lens you always find a sort of warm joy and I absolutely love that about him… and his photography. One of the things I noticed about his style right away is his use of a camera tilt in many of his photos. I’m a pretty linear person, most or all of my images are framed equally left to right, top to bottom and lines are purposefully parallel or perpendicular to my cropping. So in an effort to channel a little of David’s fire, I decided to try his tilt.
And man, oh man, am I having a time with it. It feels off and awkward to me and its most certainly pushing me out of my comfort zone.
Another thing I’ve noticed about other people’s photography is their saturation of colours. Of course, I tend to be the person that likes desaturation even though I can very much appreciate the punch that deep saturation can bring. I like those images that came out of those old plastic lenses, distorted and grainy; but I feel as though I should learn how to make an image correctly, so that I have skills to master before I learn to make them “wrong.” Hopefully this will make my process one that I can reproduce rather than being pleasantly surprised every once and a while and disappointed the other 98% of the time.
At any rate, check out David’s stuff if you get the chance. He’s a very talented photographer…just in case you’re looking for one!
www.211photography.com
looking up
After working with this image I’m reminded of my time in Boston. The fellow I dated when I lived there was a native and not at all impressed with my lollygagging at the beauty of the architecture that surrounded us at any given moment. Many metropolitan-ites, including my SO at the time, would walk very fast with their heads pointed at the concrete below their feet. I wish I would have had the awareness to stop him and ask him to look up.
He might have appreciated it.
architecture
i love lamp
Sculpture
So, I tried something new. Its a little artistic, but it kind of reminds me of the film West Side Story with Natalie Wood. Particularly, that scene when the kids are singing about having a social disease to Officer Krupke.
Or the cover of that Queen album, News of the World.
Vista Point
The San Fran trip was amazing. So amazing that I’m not going to post a gallery of images; I’m going to take my time and post each one individually and tell some background with each one.
These two images were at the end of the trip on our way back to the airport. L had never seen the ocean before so we decided to get a little extra on our way out of state.
I really like the weather at this spot this time of year. Cool, foggy and breezy. Makes me wonder if certain parts of Britain would be a good place for me…
I picked up the hat in a little antique shop in Bodega Bay. Its apparently a “vintage” hat of sorts but it has no markings on the inside. The lady sold it to me for discount because I’m the only person she’s met that could fit in it (very small head size here). I thought I’d lost it, I left it in the back seat of the rental car, but I got a call yesterday saying the rental company was going to send it to me. Guess it was meant to be!