99 Bottles of ...
Well the 96 meg project is underway; though you would not have noticed. I have images to process but just have not had time to post. Here is one that I took while touring the JD processing facility.
Color
When I am traveling, I like to relax. I am on vacation and I don't always think about the pictures that I am taking. You would think that my wife was always on these nice vacations without me since I am never in any of the images. (Part of the no thinking process)
I just don't think about images the same way that I do when I am working for a client. I like to be inspired and react to what's in front of me. I don't pre-determine what a particular image is going to look like. I just react. Some times there is no subject for the picture. This is just an example of color, nothing less and definitely nothing more. Just something that I saw that I liked...
Cold Weather
When the weather gets below 20 degrees, I start thinking about a change in lattitude and going to a nice
hotel.
A place where you can walk on the beach or play in the pool or ocean.
It's always nice to dream in the winter....
New Post, Old Image
It's been a while since I posted any new images. Business has been good but personal work has suffered. Here is an image that I pulled from the archives of the Tybee Island Lighthouse.
Crisp Morning Air
The best light of the day occurs at Dawn but it is hard to pull yourself out of bed, bundle up and go outside to take pictures. There are times in the past that this early morning pursuit results in little to no rewards (not that I expect to get rewarded for falling out of bed at O’dark-thirty).
Every once in a while something magically happens. You find just the right tree at the edge of the right lake, just as the sun peaks over the water. As the shutter clicks you can relax and remember that it is all worth it.
Good Evening, America
It’s amazing to me that sunsets are so undervalued. They just materialize everyday all over the world. Some are exquisite and some are just very plain, however, all are special.
My perception is that very few people stop to look at what is developing over our heads at the end of any particular day. We are so involved in the “daily grind” that we can’t or don’t look up.
Either I am changing or the sunsets are been so eye catching that I have noticed more and more lately. The bad news is that I have not had my camera with me, so I thought that I would share a sunset that I saw in Denver, CO several years ago.
Not as dramatic as those of late, but very memorable none the less. I am glad that I clicked the shutter and saved it for posterity. It brings me back to a place when things were hectic in my life but that I did remember to stop and appreciate my surroundings.
We should all do this a little more.
Framing
Photography, to me, is about seeing details that most people simple walk by or overlook. I find myself looking, more often then not, looking at small and insignificant things. Details don't always tell a whole story. This sometimes leads to a myopic view of what I photograph.
On those few occasions that I do look around to see the grandeur of scene, I just stop and watch the space fill my mind. This courtyard in Savannah, GA is one of those spaces.
Gloomy Days
It's nice to have a library of images on hand when the weather outside does not match your mood. You can simple open up a file, pull out a slide or print and just day-dream.
