Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I came across a fallen tree in the woods an on it were etched these lines. I have no idea how they’re made – possibly some kind of insect? They reminded me a bit of either the Chinese/Japanese paintings you often see, or perhaps some kind of ancient map with the lines representing roads and rivers. Maybe I should write “Here be Dragons” on it.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
As is my habit, I was sitting in our living room, looking out over the lake and sipping my coffee when I saw these shadows. The sun was moving behind the house, shining through one of our side windows and casting these shadows of some of my wife’s orchids.
Taken with a Sony A77 II and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f1.7 lens.
While waiting for my wife to finish her dance class I took the dog for a walk around the parking lot. After a while I noticed flashes of bright yellow on the ground – lines, curves, shapes.
Another example (see also: Cracks) of how it can be good to look down.
Taken with an iphone 5s – the only camera I had with me.
This cracked surface appealed to me. At first you don’t really know what it is. It looks a bit like some kind of aerial photograph of a parched landscape, with the cracks representing a series of rivers or gullies. Or maybe I’m reading too much into this and it’s just a bunch of cracks!
The picture demonstrates the value of looking down from time to time. Thinking about this as I write I realized that while I often look down, I rarely look up. I’ll try to look up more in future.
We went into New York City a few weeks ago to meet up with an old friend who was visiting from The Netherlands. We decided to have lunch in the Loeb Boathouse in Central Park.
However, this series of pictures starts not in New York City, but at a CVS in Ossining where we stopped to pick up a few things before taking the train from nearby Scarborough, NY.
My wife had gone into the CVS while I remained in the car. As I was sitting there I noticed the repeating geometric patterns (the reds, oranges, magentas and yellows in the picture) in a number of panels in the CVS windows. I also noticed that one of the panels was subtly different from the other and got out of the car to take a look. Someone must have sprayed something (I have no idea what that light blue stuff is) on it and there was also a dark smudge.
I liked the bright blue color and the contrast between the regular geometric shapes and the more organic pattern left by the sprayed on substance.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3