Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
We recently had some friends over to the house and my wife bought these flowers to brighten the place up.
I liked the pastel colors: the pink of the roses, the white of the babies breath, and the blue of the plate.
Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta 50mm f1.7.
I wanted to get the roll off to be developed and I thought I only had a frame or two left. It turned out that rather than being a 24 exposure roll I had inserted a 36 exposure roll. So I had to fill the remaining frames with some shots around our house.
Above some of my wife’s plants with one of my cameras (a newly acquired Kodak 35), on a wooden table on our patio.
Taken with a Minolta STsi and Minolta AF Zoom 28-80 f3.5-5.6
Another attempt at a still life (See also: Still Life – Peony). This time it’s roses in another of my wife’s blue and white pieces. I continue to be amazed by the quality of light in this little corner of our living room.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
In an earlier post (See: Croton Landing – Killdeer). I mentioned that I might “have a go” a wildlife photography as a challenge.
I recently acquired a copy of Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective and in it there are a number of beautiful still life photographs.
Since I’ve always found still life’s appealing it occurred to me that this could be another challenge. While I’ve taken still life’s before, this is one of the first I’ve taken since reading the book.
It’s taken in a corner of our house in Briarcliff Manor, which has particularly good light at certain times of day and shows a peony from our garden in one of my wife’s numerous pieces of blue and white china.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
My wife loves blue and white pottery so I guess it was inevitable that something blue and white would end up in the garden.
Taken with a Sony Alpha 500 with Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.