Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Although not a particularly startling photograph I wanted to record this, to me, remarkable tree. The picture shows a single tree! Not two different trees! It’s actually one tree with two quite different colored blossoms. I’ve never seen such a thing before and didn’t even realize that this is possible.
I’m not entirely sure why I like this one. Maybe it’s the simplicity – there’s nothing much to complicate the picture? Or maybe its the contrast between the rather smooth chairs and the more textured stone? Maybe it’s the lines of the wires in the chairs? Whatever it is I do like it.
This was taken on my birthday at one of my favorite restaurants: Le Bouchon, a French restaurant in Cold Spring, NY. I like the bright reds in the photograph, and also the way that you’re initially not entirely sure exactly what you’re seeing. It’s actually a reflection in one mirror of a reflection in another mirror on the opposite wall.
I was out walking with some friends when one of them, knowing of my interest in photography, brought me this interesting looking root. It was essentially all browns so I thought it would look quite ‘muddy’ in color and that a black and white conversion would be in order. I like the contrasts between the lights and the darks and the textures are interesting. I needed a fairly plain background, so I put it on the seat of a nearby chair.
From New Belgium Brewing. They certainly have a good range of interesting looking beers – most of them with intriguing names (e.g. slow ride; fat tire; skinny dip etc.)!