Month: May 2012

I photographed this lamp and sign at the Mexican Restaurant in San Juan Bautista, a great place to eat and relax. This is a pretty balanced image meaning it gives the viewer the feeling of stability and maybe trust.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

The exercise for the week is “Street Lamps.” You will find great and unique outside lamps in downtown areas and older neighborhoods. Go and have fun with this exercise!

I discovered a lot of great lamps in Carmel, CA, like this one. It was outside a store for inside decorations. I loved the reflection in the window.

Enjoy and find some great images!

Mud can be formed or you can create a footprint like this dog.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

Mud – made by nature! I photographed in Yellowstone NP and I brought this image home.

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The water inside the pie pan cooked out rather quickly. I turned the stove off and let it cool down a little bit. It looked like a moon landscape was forming. I changed the image into a black and white photo to bring out the structure better.

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If you have ever visited Yellowstone National Park you will never forget the impressions of the “mud-pots.” I tried to create something similar by simply putting soil from my yard and water into a pie pan and heat it up. When it started to cook I used my 180mm macro lens and a fill in flash to shoot several images.

Enjoy and keep on creating interesting images!

The exercise for the Chowchilla Photo Club is “mud” for this month. I thought I could join this effort and come up with a few interesting images.

When I saw the mud I was looking for a stick and I put it into the ground. I thought I would call this image “stick in the mud!”

Enjoy and come up with some great ideas!

I went back to Fern Spring in Yosemite Valley using my 180mm macro lens to create this image. I took this image right at the edge of the rock when it suddenly falls.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

I just got back from Yosemite NP. The waterfalls in Yosemite are either at peak or near peak. This image is from one of the minor falls. I cranked up the ISO to 800, opened the lens to f4 and got an exposure time of 1/3200. Looking at the image give the viewer an idea how fast the water is coming down and how much power and speed there is involved.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

I photographed the bottom of this fountain right around sunset. There is the water coming out of the fountain going straight up, the water falling down and the quiet water of the pond.

Keep on adding to your portfolio one image each day!