Month: June 2010

On the kitchen counter I saw this roll of paper towels. It gave me the opportunity to create a high key image.

Enjoy and happy exercising!

I opened the drawer and saw our silverware. Since I did not put the silverware into a light tent you can clearly see all kinds of reflection.

Enjoy and happy Photographing!

This weeks photographic challenge is “The kitchen project!” Go into your kitchen and photograph what you see. You can use natural light of artificial light. You can use any lens you choose. There is only one restriction: Don’t arrange anything! Find the composition and/or create it in your camera!

In this image I just opened the door of the kitchen cabinet and I found the bowls on top of the plates.

Enjoy and have a great photographic experience! One last thing: You might want to photograph in your kitchen when you spouse is out of the house!

This close-up is also photographed from the same tree. I wonder how many images I could create from just one tree. The imagination is just going wild sometimes and it is a good thing.

Happy photographing and don’t forget: You snooze you loose! This is true for many things and certainly for photography!

I went back to photograph the tree again. This time I basically doubled my extension tubes to get “closer”to the tree. I discovered the path that was created by creature who lived underneath the bark which is gone by now.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

I shot this image yesterday from the same tree than the other two. I used a reflector to get as much light as possible to show as much structure as possible.

Enjoy and go out photographing!

I photographed this image from the same tree than yesterday’s photo. It is a very old tree on the bike path in Merced, CA. I walked by this tree many times since it is on my exercise route and I just overlooked it.

Keep in mind: The purpose of constant photographic exercises is to train your eyes that you see things and images that we normally overlook!

Keep on shooting!

One of the greatest gifts as a photographer is creativity and imagination. These gifts have to be combined with persistence and hard work.  I want you to continue to photograph just one tree of you choice and create images of great fantasy that the viewer does not recognise as a tree or part of a tree. Enjoy and have fun.

I found this old tree on my exercise walk which has lots of cracks and structure.

This is another shot I took at the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve located in the Oakland hills.

Enjoy and happy Friday!

I photographed this Eucalyptus tree this morning on my photographic exercise walk. I converted the image to black and white because I felt that the green leaves in the background distracted too much from the structure on the branches. Enjoy and happy exercising with your camera.