Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Actually it was the second! The first flower was a snowdrop down by the dock, but it hadn’t opened fully and was really all that interesting to look at. I loved the bright yellows and oranges of this one. It just summed up the feeling that Spring was finally here.
March 31 was my wife’s birthday and she received these flowers: the roses in the first picture from me; and the flowers in the second two pictures from our friends Ken and Doreen Cross.
Daisies and red and yellow roses.
Daisy and yellow rose.
Taken with a Sony NEX 5N and the 85mm F2 Nikkor loaned to me by my fried Paul Savior.
I noticed today that much of the snow on our patio has melted and that patches of our garden are starting to emerge. In fact if I go to the left side of the garden I can walk down on grass all the way to the Adirondack Chairs overlooking the lake. They’re completely free of snow, as is a fairly large grassy area in front of them. The lake is still frozen but it looks as if Spring is actually on its way. Sometimes, particularly in a very bleak Winter, we forget that Spring does follow.
In anticipation of the coming Spring I thought I’d post a couple of bright, colorful pictures from previous years.
These were both taken in April 2010, the first (clearly tulips) with a Panasonic Lumix LX-3 and the second (I have no idea what kind of flower this is) with a Panasonic Lumix ZS-3.
Two jars and a teapot.
My wife likes and collects blue and white objects. Here are a few of them.
The pictures were taken with a Sony NEX 5n, the first and third with an 85mm f2 Nikkor and the second and fourth with a Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f1.7
Still life by the fireplace.
Cat by the window.
Cambodian Jar.
An earlier post reported on the new world’s most expensive photo. The New York Times questions this claim as it does Mr. Lik’s entire method of work.
Peter Lik may claim to have sold the world’s most expensive photo, with the $6.5 million Phantom (see $6.5 Million Landscape Is World’s Most Expensive Photo), but the artist is artificially inflating his market. (This is not the kind of cheating we had in mind in the story Does Photography Help Artists Cheat?)
via New York Times Exposes Peter Lik Photography Scheme – artnet News.
Some other interesting links:
Is That $6.5 Million Photo Sale for Real? Probably Not!
Artist Jeff Frost Inches Past Recently Set World Record for Most Expensive Photograph Ever Sold