A bit out there...I know.

This is a shot I took back in July at the Botanical Garden.  I've been playing with different ways to move the camera during a somewhat longer exposure.  Clearly, the upper left of the frame is way over exposed, but I find this oddly compelling.  The photo is of a small field of flowers (see the middle right of the frame for some of the stems).

Thinking of Yosemite National Park

 

With all of the news about the rim fire in Yosemite National Park I thought of this photo I shot back in 2000.  If memory serves, I visited the area not too long after a series of fires just outside the park and I remember on the drive in that it was such a barren landscape...and then I was in the valley and WOW.  Such an amazingly beautiful place.  It is truly one of the most spectacular places on Earth.

Found Objects

I've been trying to organize some old files and came across this from a few years back.  I'll let you guess what these are, but I'll tell you that they were found behind an abandoned shed deep in the woods. 

Hirshhorn Reflected

Sometimes it just takes moving a few feet to get a new perspective. In my prior reflection posts, I was shooting at one spot at the edge of the fountain inside the Hirshhorn.  This shot was taken by moving around the fountain to a new spot and getting the reflection of the windows above the fountain.  Other than cropping just a bit and adjusting the levels slightly, this is straight out of the camera.

Liquid blue

A while back I posted "Fall Reflection", which I took at the Hirshhorn in DC.  I went back there recently and took some photos of the same fountain pool, but then started playing with the colors.  I think what I need to do is shoot these with some more depth of field.  A work in progress.

Bass Harbor Lighthouse - WPA Poster Style

 

 

This is one of those photos that I don't think I got quite right when I shot it originally.  The lighting was really tough at that time of year for taking a photo of the lighthouse. (This is the Bass Harbor Light on Mt. Desert Island, Maine.)  I've always been a fan of the WPA posters of National Parks and I was inspired to make something similar with this shot.  

Softer petals

A few posts back I promised a different treatment of the petals.  I played around with some of the artistic brushes in Photoshop and settled on this image.  I may fiddle around with it some more.  Somehow flipping the image and softening it with a watercolor brush gives it a more abstract feel to me.  Would love to know what you think.