Flower season is winding down around Port Townsend. A few holdout flowers remain and should do so until our first frost, which is typically around the end of October. However, three of our sunflower plants still have blooms. Here’s a closeup of one.
K planted a variety of different sunflowers, both at home and in the community garden we belong to. The flowers fascinate me and nudged me over the edge into buying a focusing rail. When you take pictures of things from very close, only a small part of the image is in focus. With a process [...]
These Gerbera (Gerber) daisies live in a flower box on our front porch. Since I’ve been focusing on line and shapes in my photos, this caught my eye because the curve of the flowers extends into the branches of the background birch reaching into the sky behind. Click photo for larger view.
Normally I don’t like to add special effects to photos, but this sunflower picture seemed a good candidate for some heightened local contrast. What do you think? Click photo for larger view.
I just enrolled in a photo workshop titled Close to Home, which is based on the popular Craft & Vision ebook, Close to Home: Finding Great Photographs in Your Own Back Yard, this workshop is designed to help us look more closely into your local surrounding and find great photographs no matter where we live. Ray Ketchum, [...]
Usually, I either try to tell a story with my photos or at least capture a beautiful scene. But, sometimes it’s just necessary to post silly, why-not pictures. This is a small buckwheat plant that’s about 7 inches tall. Call this fun with a wide angle lens.
Wednesday night I looked out the window and stopped in awe. The sky had taken on a red-magenta glow that I seldom see. I called K to look out and grabbed my camera for a couple of pictures. Yes, I have a lot of sunset photos already but I can’t help myself. Click on the [...]
