I went home for Christmas for the first time in a few years. There was snow everywhere, and the birds and animals stood out against the brilliant white. Armed with my dad’s 80-200mm lens, I took hundreds of shots just from the back door of our house. Dad and I also walked on the towpath along the Ohio Canal and I managed to snap a few birds there.
For Krista’s mom’s birthday this July, we went hiking to the top of one of Gallup’s highest points – Pyramid Peak. It was a great hike with spectacular views, even despite getting lost on the way down, and Krista’s mom smoked the rest of us youngins.
I took this photo back when the whole “Double Rainbow” video was going viral.
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.
Leaving the DAAP building one day in May, I heard a buzzing in the sculpture garden nearby. Bees were pollinating the freshly opened flowers, so I decided to whip out my camera to document this rite of Spring.
I must have underestimated the speed at which these little insects moved. I hardly had time to focus, let alone set up a shot and take it. It got to the point where I switched to AutoFocus and started shooting randomly into the flowers.
This method luckily produced this image. The bee was in focus, positioned dynamically in the shot, and the diagonal stems of the flowers provided an interesting line system from which the bee and his perch may diverge.
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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.
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