Author: Friedhelm

This is the dining room of the Muir building. Through the open door in the background you can see the kitchen.

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My daughter pointed out to me the beautiful door knob on the Muir home. Again, I converted the image to black and white.

Enjoy and keep photographing at a historic building. You will get many interesting images!

When you enter the Muir home this is the room on the right.The fireplace is decorated with Italian marble and there is a piano close to the window. Mrs. Muir was an accomplished pianist. I used the window light and a fill in flash to create this image.

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Pick a historic building and photograph it over and over again. Walk around it, walk through it. Observe it how the light change it during the course of a day. How does the building look during rain or in plain sunshine. You will always discover new images in an older home. As always don’t forget to have fun with this challenge.

  

I picked the John Muir home in Martinez, CA. This house is now a National Historic Site and therefor part of the US National Parks System. You can read about the history of this home by clicking on their website at http://www.nps.gov/jomu/index.htm.

I believe the two palm tree were young when the Muir family lived here. I converted the image to black and white and added some noise to it.

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These are two icicles. The larger one serves as background and has many small lines. The second icicle is on the right creates a sharp contrast line in a “V” shape to the background.

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I discovered this natural crack in one of the icicles. The crack was caused when the entire snow mass on the roof moved about a foot down.  Of course I had to photograph it using a 100-400mm lens and extension tubes. Enjoy and happy photographing

I cut off the top a milk carton, filled it with water and put it into the freezer. After while the edges were frozen and the middle was still liquid. I dumped the water and took the frozen ice out of the carton and put it on a black surface. Then I took several photographs using a flash from different directions.

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This week exercise is about ice. In many states snow is melting during the day and forming beautiful icycle over night. If you don’t have them around you can go to your refrigerator and either grab some ice cube or freeze water in certain forms. You may also carve the ice cubes or shock them through heat and create interesting shapes and structures inside the ice. As always enjoy this exercise!

I photographed this icicle last Saturday at Kings Canyon National Park. It was raining in the valley and my daughter had the idea to go above the rain. So we went to Grant Grove at Kings Canyon where I was able to photograph these icicles.

I shot this image in Mariposa, CA either during or right in between showers. I was lucky because normally there are always cars parked in front of the stores on Hwy. 140. I just love the reflection of the sign.

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It was actually raining while I took this image. The meadows along the street were ponds and the clouds are hanging over the landscape. This image is very moody that’s probably why we call a “bad” day a “rainy” day. I included the road on the left hand side and while I reflected over the mood of this image I got the idea that no matter how rainy the day might be there is always a road to go.

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