Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
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
We were having lunch at The Depot in Cold Spring, when I suddently noticed these shadows on the umbrellas above our heads. I’ve always like the patterns that shadows make – they seem to me to be somehow mysterious.
Taken in Law Park, Briarcliff Manor, NY. It’s actually the underside of a slide in a children’s playground (see below). I didn’t see it as such, however. To me it was a pleasing color (I always find purple to be rather calming), with a series of interesting lines (both straight and curved) weaving through it. I think the softly curving lines work well with the color to emphasize the feeling of tranquility. If they had been jagged the overall effect would have been somewhat jarring.
Taken with a Sony NEX 5N and Ludwig 50mm f2.9 Peronar.