Category: Photograph(s)
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Monday Monochrome – Stand on 44th Street
This week’s Monday Monochrome is “Stand on 44th Street.” It’s New York City, of course. Such stands were ubiquitous in Midtown before Covid. During Covid, Manhattan business pretty much emptied out, and tourists disappeared. So there was no business for these colorful and entertaining vendors. Since Covid, business has slowly returned to NY. (This image…
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One Four Challenge – Acoma, NM
We’re starting another month of variations in the One Four Challenge. As a reminder, I select an original photograph, and then explore four different approaches to editing over four successive weeks. The One Four Challenge was started by Robyn G. Today, Leanne Cole and I are kind of coordinators/evangelists for the One Four. So don’t…
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Flower of the Week – Columbine
This week’s Flower of the Week is Columbine (Aquilegia). This image is of a cluster of beautiful columbines in summer. There are hundreds of named and unnamed varieties. Native to the northern hemisphere, Columbines, in the buttercup family, are now found worldwide. In ancient Greece and Rome, columbines were associated with Aphrodite and Venus, both…
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Monday Monochrome – White Fences
The Monday monochrome this week is an image of the white fences around a lawn bowling court in Bruce Park, in Greenwich, CT.
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Lens Artists Challenge #355 – Creativity
The above work is by Vassily Kandinsky. I’ll get back to that presently. This week’s Lens Artists Challenge is Creativity, courtesy of Leya. It’s a “look back” at Challenge #42 (I wasn’t here for that.) I’ll touch on several dimensions of creativity important to me. Creativity is the ability to think about a task or a…
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One Four Challenge Week 4 – Hammond Gardens
This is the final variation for the June series, the scene in Hammond Gardens. I have successfully concluded my goal of doing all variations with straightforward image adjustments – No Photoshop or AI. For this variation, I did use a preset (in Luminar) for most of it, but it’s all exposure, contrast, color and tonality,…
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Flower of the week – Sweet Briar
I’m going to do a “Flower of the Week.” Here is an old rose, also known as Sweet Briar (Rosa rubiginosa). It’s a really lovely flower, native to Europe and found throughout. Though in parts of southwest Asia (and Australia) the Sweet Briar is considered an invasive plant and/or banned. Such a shame. Sweet Briar…
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Monday Monochrome – Mojave Dessert
This week’s Monday Monochrome is this image of the Mojave Desert in southeastern California. Along with the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, the Mojave forms a vast desert system in southwestern North America. The Mojave is considered “high desert” because the elevations are over 2,000 ft and up to 4,000 ft. I have found…
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Lens Artists Challenge #354 – Reflections
Anne, at Slow Shutter Speed, has provided us with a nice challenge this week, full of possibilities: Reflections. I love reflections. I like playing with reflections, in photography and life. Reflecting surfaces like mirrors can reflect reality back to us, but they can also distort reality, warping our sense of what we see, what is…
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One Four Challenge Week 3 – Hammond Gardens
This is week 3 of the June One Four series. Variation 3 is above. I started with the original image, converted to monochrome, and then messed around with lighting, exposure, and contrast to achieve the above look. I was aiming for a soft look; I find it’s difficult to get a good soft image working…
