A Little Friday Night Music

Buggyworks

I was looking for interesting textures the other day and decided to go to the Buggyworks Building. This feels like cheating because the place is just rich with textures and interesting angles, and wow, is it different from back in the day when it was just a bunch of artists studios! Now it has sleek loft condominiums and office spaces to give it some legitimacy. Would I live there? Perhaps if they installed a coffee shop on the ground floor and I tired of gardening ...

Break

This is me taking a break from shooting and getting my hands dirty in the garden. There are good things to come ...

My book!

Hello, my friends. After weeks of hard work, I've created a book of my photos. Actually, it's a little more than that. Please take a look. Up in the upper right-hand corner is an option to view it full screen. It's worth it. Enjoy!

Low Contrast

These are my candidates for B&W "low contrast" photos. They are supposed to have a silky feel to them, a sort of ephemeral quality. Like I said, I have difficulty with these because I'm not sure where the eye is supposed to go. Your thoughts?

"Hot" Contrast

Hi, friends. My assignment for this weekend is actually a little more involved than I originally explained. I also need to come up with a B&W high- (or "hot") contrast image, a B&W low-contrast image, and an image with one color dominant. Yes, this is quite a tall order. The high-contrast I find easier because I'm naturally drawn to bright whites and dark blacks. So, which do you think is the strongest candidate?

With My Compliments ...

I've been obsessing about this weekend's assignment all week; complimentary colors. I was being a bit of a philistine about it, thinking that I should just magically stumble upon my source of inspiration without having to create it. "Food." I thought. Purple plums and yellow ... yellow what? Well plums aren't in season anyway. Okay, strawberries and leafy green lettuce. Who doesn't love red and green? So I went to the grocery store, but the emergency squad was there and I'm allergic to what they were dealing with, so I promptly left for another store. I arrived home with my produce in hand, and saw that my neighbor was mowing his lawn. His green lawn. With a red mower. So naturally I stopped him to capture the essence of a late Spring afternoon. I shot the berries and lettuce too. Still, nothing was doing it for me. And I thought of my sister reminding me that I have a green purse. More than one actually, but I digress. I also have a red shawl. But that came out too much red and not enough green. Finally, I looked around, exasperated. Books! We only have a hundred-thousand books ... so I arranged them just so.

Electric

You know when your driving 65 mph down the highway and the car in front of you slams on his breaks and you slam on your brakes and you think you're going to crash but you don't and you get this sort of electric shock in your finger tips from the moment? That's the feeling I got when I took this picture.

Have you ever felt that?

I Dreamed of a Circle

Hi friends. My class is moving fast and furious as I scurry to keep up. My current assignment; circles, triangles, rectangles. Real and implied. I wanted to play the 10,000 Maniacs Circle song for you as you think of what an 'implied' circle means, but alas, you'll have to go here if you want to sample it.

* A special note to Stephanie. Thank you for visiting and thank you for taking the time to comment. Blogspot would not allow me to post your comment but I hope you keep coming!