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Krista and I visited Cleveland on Fourth of July weekend for a wedding, a birthday, and a trip to Cedar Point. At Furnace Run Park, I took the first shot I’ve been really proud of in quite some time:
The Trees At Furnace Run
Equipment: Nikon D300s, Tamron 17-50, edited in Aperture 3
A cholla cactus in full bloom in Albuquerque
A cactus blossom burns deep red on an Albuquerque afternoon
Now that I have my shiny new Nikon D300s, I need to get out and shoot with it. After lunch the other day I just decided to walk around downtown and get some shots of the blossoming trees. It had been snowing earlier in the morning – big puffy flakes – but by noon the snow had melted and the sun had come out.
Peeling Paint
More from the photo shoot in Cincinnati.
These flowers were in the same meadow as ‘Anemone I.’ Those two images, as well as another of a bird nest in the field, I bundled together as a three-photo set, had prints made, and framed them for my mother for Mother’s Day.
When photographing, I often exploit my independence from film – I take a number of shots of the same subject. Still, I also discipline myself not to delete images from the camera’s memory card until I see them on my computer screen.
This image was one of about fifteen I took of this branch. Some focused on the leaf, some on the branch. Some were oriented to have the branch straight and the leaf diagonal, and vice versa.
Looking at the images on the LCD screen on my camera, this would have been one of the images that would have been up for deletion. Luckily, I held onto it long enough to see the great detail in the barck of the branch.
In Spring of 2003, the design task for Studio was to develop a sustainable school building for a Waldorf elementary school. We made frequent visits to the site, a lovely meadow teeming with flora and fauna. My Fuji’s built-in macro lens came in handy for close up shots like this one.
One of my favorite shots of all the thousands I’ve taken, ‘Oriental Maple’ was taken one rainy morning in the summer of 2003.
I was getting ready to leave for work at City Architecture, when I glanced out of my bedroom window and saw the raindrops on the tree outside. Hastily, I undid the latch on the screen, poked my camera out, and captured the shot.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I think part of the success of this photo was the white siding of the house: it acted as a white card, bouncing diffused light back at the closer leaves while failing to reach those further away.
For a full-resolution image, see my ZenPhoto gallery.
Brilliant days in autumn are hard to come by, but the combination of the azure sky with the intense colors of Fall provided quite a palette with which to work. To think of the infinite spectrum of color in the universe, and it has to be boiled down to a measly 256 colors to be displayed on the Web.