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{click image to view large} Another image photographed in hard light around 1 p.m. The bright white and strong graphic elements jumped out at me while walking with my mother through the River Arts District in Asheville, North Carolina this past December. She was carrying her Lumix. ●●● Nikon D300; 19.5 @ 1/500 sec, ISO [...]
In: Street Scenes · Tagged with: fence, numbers, pattern, shadow
St. Francis
{click image to view large} Noticed from the corner of my eye, this scene caused me to do a double-take in passing. The first captures, attempted by shooting over a fence, were marred by an intervening snowbank. I got lucky with clear skies again the next day, and was able to return at the same time to [...]
In: Street Scenes · Tagged with: shadow, St. Francis, statue
Shodo
{click image to view large} Photographed near high noon, this capture reminds me there are delightful possibilities in hard light between the hours of dawn and dusk! ●●● Nikon D300; f9.5 @ 1/75 sec, ISO 200 (handheld); 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 46mm (69mm EFL); focus distance 1.68m
In: Street Scenes · Tagged with: shadow, string, wall, wire
Tread Carefully
{click image to view large} Returning home one afternoon, this pattern of light and shadow on our front steps caught my eye. The hues actually shifted from warm to cool in the scene, so I decided to push that a bit in processing instead of converting to pure black and white. ●●● Nikon D300; f11 [...]
In: Abstract · Tagged with: pattern, shadow, shape
Smell the Flowers
{click image to view large} Just the other night, passing through our kitchen, I noticed this scene on one wall. It make me think of The Mindful Eye’s current assignment “archetype”, so I asked my husband not to touch anything until after dinner when I could set up to photograph. The next morning before sunrise [...]
In: Abstract · Tagged with: archetype, shadow
Window Blind №2
{click image to view large} Cleaning house, this is one from the archives I couldn’t quite bring myself to delete. Though I often walk past this location, on that October morning the sunlight made a shadow pattern I’d never noticed before—and haven’t seen since. New possibilities are always unfolding, even in familiar surroundings. ●●● Lumix [...]
In: Street Scenes · Tagged with: blind, pattern, shadow
Two from the Archives
Silver Door {click image to view large} Nikon D300; f8.0 @ 1/180sec, ISO 200 (handheld); 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28mm (42mm EFL); subject distance 1.5m ●●● Green Gate {click image to view large} Nikon D300; f11.0 @ 1/130sec, ISO 200 (handheld); 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 200mm (300mm EFL); subject distance 3.76m ●●● Only 20°F outside, [...]
In: Street Scenes · Tagged with: door, gate, green, pattern, shadow, silver