The sun was in and out for much of the day today. It was out when I left my office but by the time I got outside the clouds were back and they stayed around until well after I had finished making photographs. This post is one of many that form a fence linked up [...]
I didn’t have nearly as much trouble getting out to take pictures today. The sun certainly helped me capture today’s 39 frames.
Nothing too compelling to me today, though. I felt like I was just standing around marveling at the shadows and hoping that the clouds wouldn’t come back too soon.
This view of a picnic table [...]
I had to force myself to go out and take pictures today. I did not feel like it but I have Ignacy Paderewski’s words in my head (I doubt he said them in English, though): "If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If [...]
40 frames today although nothing particularly stands out. There’s this one where the idea of the picture is much stronger than the result. Dawn likes this picture of the gravel extending deep into the distance.
Shooting and processing notes The 17-40 F4.0 L was back on the camera today. 40mm, f6.3, 1/125, ISO [...]
The sun peeked through the clouds a bit this morning and, playing with the dark bark from the rain, made interesting shapes. I took 35 pictures this morning but expected I would take many more in the afternoon. But I didn’t, so those from the brief spurt this morning stand for the whole day.
This picture [...]
I attended a caucus today for the very first time. I had always thought before that you had to register ahead of time and meet special requirements in order to attend a caucus. There were a lot of people there crowded in shoulder-to-shoulder. It seems like this was common throughout the state of Washington today.
Though [...]
It seems like I spent the whole day in meetings at work yesterday and I was not able to get outside and spend time photographing. I still managed 31 frames, though. And something else happened, too. I made a few pictures in my office but I was still a long way off from my 29 [...]
I had a hard time choosing between this photo of the stairs and this other one.
Not a great day for photography for me. There was a lot going on at work so I stayed close to my office. Not a great move since I was stopped three times by people with questions about all the [...]
This was the first thing I saw at the Overlake Transit Center today and my favorite picture of the bunch. I rode my bike over since I didn’t have time to walk. I knew there would be a good place to lock my bike while I wandered around but I should probably have brought a [...]
I just can’t seem to get enough of these yellow rectangles in the stairwell of the parking garage.It rained most of the day today so I wasn’t able to spend much time outside. In spite of that, I still managed to get 34 frames and cover a range of subjects. Doug Plummer has just posted [...]
This picture loses a lot in the conversion to sRGB for the Web and certainly doesn’t look as good on non-calibrated monitors. I deliberately emphasized the green of the moss to the point that it seems to fluoresce. I downplayed the browns and ended up with a photo that almost looks like a painting: it [...]
I think the hydrangea blossoms are almost as pretty in the winter as they are in the summer and they might make an even more interesting photograph. I spent about an hour walking around my neighborhood, hoping for the sunshine the weathermen promised. The clouds did make some interesting patterns on the lake, though. I [...]
I noticed this as we were going into Crossroads Mall. I was drawn first by the patterns of light on the textured concrete blocks of the wall: on gray days like today I am not used to see light and texture variations like this. I did get my 29 frames in again today (46 frames) [...]
Today is the first day of February and the first day of my 29 Frames experiment. I made it easily today, shooting 56 frames. I posted 12 of them to Flickr. There are more experiments with the red-branched bushes; more successful ones than yesterday, I think. And some photos from a visit to a new [...]
These vines fascinate me and they are on several areas of the parking garages around the building where I work. I think it’s the contrast of the organic shapes with the lines of the concrete, and yet the vines themselves are just lines this time of year as though they were drawn onto the scene [...]
Another walk on the trails around work today. This is on the other side of the main campus from my building so it took a bit of time to get over there. I felt like I was forcing the photos today and it shows. This construction zone sign seemed so incongruous among the trees and [...]
I am glad that there are such rich photographic opportunities within a few minutes’ walk from my office else I would taking a lot of pictures of objects around the house given the short days this time of year. I do hope one day to be able to reach the state of sensitized sympathy that [...]
We woke up to snow again today. And, as usual, I walked around the yard and took a few quick pictures. I’m not sure why I take pictures whenever it snows except that wherever I have lived, snow has been rare and it was just what we did when I was growing up. Today’s pictures, [...]
This wall is near our basement and shaded by this huge camellia bush–tree, really–and the light there is sometimes dappled, sometimes streaked, but always subtle and lovely. I didn’t capture what I wanted here, which was the way the moss on top of the wall just seemed to glow in the dark rainy day. But [...]
This was one of several shots I took experimenting with an umbrella, backdrops, reflectors, the base, and even a gel over a flash for the background, and compared it to the results from the standard way to shoot this with a light tent. There is plenty of info about how I set things up and [...]