I don’t expect to win any composition awards with this photograph. What was I trying to capture was the pleasing warm light on the white bark on this plane tree (an ornamental in the same family as the American Sycamore.) I saw this light was I was leaving work. I did not have time to […]
Artistically, this was a bit of serendipity. It was late, I had not taken my One Picture a Day yet. I went to my new “assistant,” a strong LED flashlight and the dark room. Not the darkroom, where film is printed, but a room with the lights out where we take photographs with single light […]
Back to black and white with this winter scene. We continue to explore post-processing to black and white. We photograph in RAW. In Aperture, we desaturate. The in the Curves brick, we pull the red curve north, the blue curve south. We desaturate again, using the Saturation brush applied to the entire photograph. Then we play […]
Curious things we collect. Here’s a jumble of obsolete typography printing letters. They have a name, can’t think of it right now. These were retrieved from a purge of these things at a high school in the 1990s. We have a printer’s drawer the would have held these, too. Amazing how something that was the […]
A basket of oranges celebrates our final One Picture a Day for January. Taking up on the earlier theme of the perfect orange, we brought a basketful into our tabletop studio for some practice stock photography. We are using the Merax One Shot Studio once again. I had a little trouble with the equipment. The […]
We ventured into a winter landscape for some black and white photography in today’s One Picture a Day. Actually, we have several pictures this time. I have not paid much attention to black and white for years. I took a course in photography years ago, and shot a good bit of black and white for […]
A Shark Eye shell is in the spotlight. Shark eye is a type of moon snail. Moon snails are predatory snails that live along the Atlantic coast. The snail feeds on bivalves like clams and scallops. It drills a neat, round hole to access the animal within the shell. Bivalve shells with these holes are […]
Alrighty, then. Not really sure where I was going with this one. It was 11:30 pm and I had not taken my One Picture a Day, is the only explanation on I can offer. It’s a light bulb, lit, and held in a bare hand. Actually, it is being held in front of a bright […]
An injured American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) that has been frequenting this feeder is the subject of today’s One Picture a Day. Because of the dark wing, I think this is a male, but I am not absolutely sure. I first noticed him about a month ago, in December. He has an apparent injury to his […]
We play around with “rainbows” for our One Picture a Day today. This spectrum was cast on the living room wall by sunlight coming through the beveled edges of decorative glass in our front door. These delightful sprites appear on sunny afternoons in our living room. On the wall and for the original image, the center […]