Tag: abstract landscape

Monday’s Spectrum Exploration

We focus on visible light in photography, such as the life and colors found in sandstone. The intricate hues reflect a vibrant essence of nature, for us to appreciate.

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…

Life Flowing in Rock

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!

Throwback Thursday

Do they float or are they submerged?

As I just went through a forced reconfiguration of all my storage, I poked around a bit in my back catalog to find something that for one reason or another never caught my eye.

Here’s a little bit of amusement that I came up with from an image captured in 2012…

Floating Pool of Mystery

As I used to have a sizable backroads commute to work back then, I made sure to always have a camera with me and frequently found something to catch my eye. In this case, I noticed a bit of marshy pond with a bit of nice light on the trees in be background. The result was a rather mundane image with not so wonderful composition; when that happens, I never throw away (aka delete) these images.

With a square crop and a bit of imaginative processing, it becomes more difficult to place the various components in the image and a bit of mystery appears in the image, as the marshy outcroppings might be floating, or are they lifeforms of an even stranger variety? Let your mind wander!