Photographic Impressionistic Illusionistic
Photography Without Rules
If only I could convince
The east to merge with the west.
Two exposure software blend since the resulting jpg is just too small. Nikon used to create a blended RAW file but not on their newer cams. I am becoming restless and feel the urge to get back to making some dreamscapes.
I really love this next piece. No pretext or effort needed. Pure color abstract. ($50 Russian lens, reversed optic). Restless.
Flycatcher
Catch a fly
Baseball
Random, yes. (29) frame sections – The original is much too big to view on any screen.
Perhaps a print?
Another View
A house is not necessarily a home.
Until voices and smells
Crying and laughing
Struggles and discovery
Make it so
(Draft started 3/30/22)
It’s been awhile since I’ve caught up on my WordPress reading/writing.
My wife Robin and I are moving to a new location.
After thirty-two years in the same location.
And, our daughter and her husband will be moving with us. (I know, don’t start a sentence with “and”).
What an utter disruption. All of the legality(s), buying, selling, upgrading, fixing, budgeting, signing, soon-to-be-light-construction is trying its best to kill my creative side. Through it all, I find the decompression of nature to be the finest balm. If I have a camera with me, even better.
When it came time to “stage” the house, I packed my main computer and have been using my laptop. I am grateful to have the laptop. It is very powerful. Old guy that I am, I prefer my PC. A nice big screen, a sure footed mouse, and no battery shenanigans. I wanted to go get it out of storage, but I haven’t been walking in several days and that comes first. After a brief search in the storage facility, I realized it’s behind a mass of boxes and stuff. Motivation won out and the PC is back in business.
I found a nesting hummingbird about a week ago at Mission Trails. I think I’ll go visit her today and forget about the floors, paint, counter tops, tree trimming,1% good faith down payment, caulking, electrical trim, new refrigerator, docu-sign, fix the gutters at the new place stuff (short list).
Update: I’ve returned several times to see the hummingbird and she’s a no-show.
Things will be different in the new location. Less light at night, less noise, fewer crowds. I’ve never lived that way. I’ve always lived near a freeway or main thoroughfare. The hum of the city and all its trappings will be something I go to and not live in. Hope we like it.
I am pretty sure I will not be visiting Mission Trails Regional Park as often as I do.
That story will need to wait. Too much emotion attached.
Photograph – multiple exposures- black phoebe – color manipulations and Polar Coordinates in PSE
Deja vu
Says you
Me too
Cover photo from July 2021 – one of my favorites of my swallows project.
One of the joys of photography is the power it affords the one carrying the camera (within the context of artistic endeavor). With a few tweaks, everything becomes liquid. Get close, and squish the background. Is something dark? Use it! Is something bright? Line it up!
The third quarter of 2021 saw reduced outings. Only a couple in the month of August. Too many life things on the plate to make the adventures. After July, the swallows were gone so much of my work included technique practice. Just trying to stay sharp.
I see from my folders that the fourth quarter has more outings than the third. These will include many more multiple exposure pieces as is typical for me.
Happy holidays! Keep shooting!
“In My Little Town, I never meant nothin’, I was just my father’s son” (Paul Simon)
….and when I grew up
I realized that the thoughts of men
Cannot make us who we are
Nor can they remove the good we do with sincere hearts
It is only the small among us
Who find fault with good things
Thoughts do not carry the load
Words, no matter how harmful
Float away on the lightest of breezes
And when the fires come
The measure of a soul
Will be found in the kindness
Afforded to others
The rest
Is useless weight
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