Every spring we are greeted with mother natures beauty. Tulips is a sure sign of spring. In Holland Michigan there is a huge tulip grower and spring the first two weekends of May bring the famous tulip festival. This is a shot fro the Tulip Festival and one of hundreds of colorful shots that can be had in the expansive fields of Tulips.
Here is another shot made at the abandoned hotel in San Miguel, Mexico. This was such a fun place to shoot. I embellished the image a bit to add to the mood and overall despair of this building. Shot with a Phase One IQ180 this image has spectacular detail and allows me to hold the dynamic exposure range of highlights to shadows.
More from my Sunday shoot. This was shot in one of the corners of this cool antique shop. The owner has great taste on merchandising and had many little and large areas set up great for wonderful photography, not to mention purchasing of some rare items. And, hue knew how to light the areas too.
Have you ever visited the FL Keys? Interesting place for sure and even more interesting people. Funny how the different ones drift off to places like the Keys. The Fl, keys have just one main road and it will take you on a slow meandering drive to the southern most point in the US> Key West is a small tropical type of town with tons of bars and interesting people. You never know what you are going to see. In the evenings at sunset there is the sunset festival and every night you can gather on the docks and be entertained by street performers sip a beer and watch the sunset. Quite a lot of fun. This image is a portion of the old railroad bridge that used to run all the way to Key West.
A few weeks ago I enjoyed one of my outing with companion photographer Debra. We try once a month to take a Sunday and go somewhere and just shoot pictures of what we find. We come across abandoned buildings, funky stores and all sorts of other interesting things. This shot was in a very cool antique store in a town we never heard of. They had all sorts of cool stuff in a eerie of stores. We spent nearly two hours there shooting. I have published a shot previously of a bank safe hinge shot in one of the stores. This is a cool scooter type bike on a shelf. I have a bunch more you’ll see soon.
Part of the Olympic National Park runs along the coastline of Washington. Much of it is hard to access and some require a bit of a hike. This shot though is available from a parking lot. The whole coastline from Washington south though Oregon is just an amazing place to take photographs. I’ll be doing a workshop in olympic National Park this september. This will be one of the places we go.
It’s fun once in a while not to just shoot big landscapes. I like looking around for things that are beautiful and seeing things that look cool when isolated from things around it. This image I shared on Facebook as a what is it image. Fun to see people try to guess what it is. So, it is a hinge on a bank vault. I found it in an antique store the now occupies and old bank.
It’s fun sometimes to make photographs and have people guess what it is of. This weekend I created a few of those and I will present thins this week. Today’s image was made yesterday on one go my Sunday photo adventures. Simply it’s get in the car head in a direction and see what you find. And, we found all sorts of cool stuff. When I saw this image I had to shot it. Being a rust guy I was all over it. This is the back of one of those old chairs you’d put in your backyard. As the paint peeled new rust formed and then rusted more paint off. You can see the lines where all this happened. However this could also be an aerial shot of a muddy river. Hmmmm….fun isn’t it?
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My friends say I should do a book or exhibit on all my iceberg images. Sounds like a good idea and it will go on my task list, which is rather long. This page was from Antarctica (obviously) and I just love the way it works. Foreground, iceberg in the background, and then the mountains and horizon light far off. This is a very strong image and one of my favorites. It is also a very strong B&W image and I have that one over on my Facebook page.