As the rain is coming down steadily on this Sunday morning, I thought that a quiet autumn reflection from a couple of years ago might be in order.
Here’s that thought…
This image came about from a bit of noodling and looking for something different, as we were photographing in East Haddam. With some early autumnal color showing in the trees, the reflection in the stream created a bit more depth of those colors.
Enjoy your moment of serenity!
That’s quite the catchy title for a blog post, as we’re visiting one of the National Parks in the United States. For this post, I’m using an image from last year’s visit to Bryce Canyon in Utah. November in Bryce Canyon is definitely cold, and the altitude added to the windchill that we experienced. Nevertheless, it was well worth facing the conditions, as the vistas are simply stunning!
Here’s one of those views…
Shooting this with the wonderful long view, as well as the canyon seemingly inviting us in, I still enjoy this image. Nature is filled with wonders and Bryce Canyon is definitely happy to provide us with a sense of those wonders!
Looking forward to hearing about all of your favorite landscapes!
It’s great to have a sense of revival in this week’s posts, as I feel energized by it. In that vein, I’ll change my self-imposed constraints a little for the iPhone Friday series. From this post on, I will be posting only images that were recorded within the past week. This has the added benefit of reminding me to get out of the house and look around a bit more for something interesting. Simply because, all work and no play dull my senses!
Here’s a take from this past week…
New Salem Academy was brought into existence on February 25, 1795, when Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams signed the legislation that created the academy. The Trustees of New Salem Academy have continuously managed the affairs of the Academy since then, which today focuses on the provision of scholarship opportunities for residents of New Salem and descendants of Academy attendees and staff.
Note that the museum is open by appointment only, so please reach out to plan your visit!
As I’m having fun putting my web-site together, I’m building portfolio pages that feature particular groupings of some of the images that I have captured over the years. Even though these are just my digital photography, some of them go back quite a while! So for this week’s throwback, I’m going to an image from 2004.
Here are three Canada geese afloating…
After all this time, I still appreciate this image for a whole bunch of reasons. It took a bit of work to get this capture, as I shot 34 or so images to get one where the geese give off a sense of direction. I still enjoy the coloring of the late September leaves and their reflection in the rather tranquil river. And, yes, despite being an early digital camera, the Canon EOS 10D, which I still have, performed admirably!
I hope you enjoy this image and look forward to hearing about your early forays into digital photography!
Here’s another one in the series, as it’s been a lot of fun thus far. In this week’s installment, I’m taking a slightly different approach to the theme of Window.
Here’s a set of windows that provide a different view…
Coin operated laundromats are a staple of just about every American town. They are useful for those high-capacity machines that most of us will not have in our house or for apartment dwellers, who don’t have laundry hookups. For a bit of meditation, one can look through the windows and follow the progress of the laundry tumbling in front of our eyes!
This is my mid-week contribution to the Monday Window thread, a creation of Ludwig Keck. To read more about Ludwig, check this page.
In the most recent Travel Tuesday post, we visited the wonderful city of Brno. As I was working on (finally) putting together my photography web-site, I started with a test gallery page for Iceland. Thus far I’ve put 13 of my images from the various trips to this great country with many more to come!
That gave me the idea to post this one…
This is from an August 2022 trip, and as you can probably tell, it was raining pretty steadily during our visit to Jokulsarlon. Given the tricky conditions (and the amount of people at the site, I decided to also take a couple of iPhone shots. This is one of those photos, which I kind of like. There are definite coloration artifacts, which are a little too early for blue hour (especially in August).
Just as a heads up, if you visit the web-site, it’s still doing some unpredictable things, plus there are some pages from the demo site that I’m using as a starting point. Plus many links will become active when I add many more galleries, as well as some shop pages. Lots to come!
Greetings and welcome to the revival blog post! I’ll post about what’s been keeping me rather busy in a separate post, so as not to bore those of you who’d rather see something new in Infrared fun!
As I’m enjoying a long weekend and the weather has been gorgeous, I opted for some exploration. In particular, there’s a well-hidden, old bridge that I was looking for and found. As this bridge is in an area where I captured a Meetinghouse (see post), I took a slight detour to visit that location as well.
Here’s a first look at the Meetinghouse in natural light…
This was captured with my Fuji GFX 100s II medium format camera, and I treated it with an Adobe Camera Raw filter to bring an early sense of autumn into the image.
I also photographed the Meetinghouse in a rather different color…
A rather different capture and processing, as I took this photo with my 720nm converted Canon EOS 5D MkII, and then gave it a quick channel swap and some adjustments to highlight pink trees!
The same image with a rather different treatment…
For this treatment, I went to a yellowish tone for the trees, which also allowed me to create a slightly more sinister feel to the overall image. I’ll admit that I enjoy this approach a bit!
A couple of quick news items. First of all, I have the privilege of having an invitation to present to the Assabet Valley Camera Club next May on the topic of Infrared photography. This will be a lot of fun, and a great impetus for me to add to my portfolio over the next months, as I prepare the detailed presentation. Secondly, I’m finally working on my new web-site, as I feel I have enough images processed over this past year to present a start of a portfolio. More announcements soon!
After last week’s Wednesday Window, we’re staying in Europe going a bit north from Italy to the Czech Republic. This installment is one of those opportune moments as a photographer, when we get to see something that’s not happening every day in our lives.
Let’s take a look at this one…
During a work trip to Brno, Czechia, I was going for a walk on the day before meetings started and came upon this crew of window cleaners. I admire both their skill and fearless approach, as this is not for the faint of heart!
This is my mid-week contribution to the Monday Window thread, a creation of Ludwig Keck. To read more about Ludwig, check this page
After the rather sunny image in last week’s installment of Travel Tuesday, it’s time to prepare for a little rain. Or rather, it wasn’t really raining during that day in Brno, Czechia, when I captured this week’s image, but everyone was prepared!
Here’s that abundance of preparation…
This rather fun, whimsical art installation in one of the main shopping streets in Brno is definitely a great way to bring a little color. With this splash of shades from these umbrellas, one cannot help but smile! It certainly made me smile and look up for this photo!
Enjoy your, hopefully sunny, day!
This episode is taking a bit of a departure from the various explorations, as they mostly have been somewhat outside our usual view of the world around us. I’d like to visit an approach to bringing our standard range of visible light into a bit of a different light. After all, photography is about writing with light (or writing the light).
Let’s take a look at today’s image…
This is an image from my 2023 trip to Valley of Fire state park in Nevada. As we traversed part of White Dome loop, I noticed both the lines and coloring going through this sandstone. In order to get all the depth I needed in this image, I took a focus-bracketed set of images, as the individual sand particles are just about visible.
I was struck by the combination of colors and subtle hues that were in the rock, providing me with both a sense of life force within the rock and that even this sandstone formation was malleable. Life and its colors are all around us, so it’s key that we open all our senses to what Nature offers us!
