The Texture of Things
February 25, 2013
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While in Colorado during a photo tour for sandhill cranes we took an afternoon to explore a local canyon, looking for some interesting sunset exposures. I was hiking back to the vehicles when I saw this grove of aspens next to the rock wall, the mottled surface of the trees mimicking the various tones of the granite and the trunks complementing the...
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Dawn on ridge line
February 17, 2013
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Part of the enjoyment I get from the mountains is the awesome immense presence they have, a permanence that requires you to acknowledge they have seen so much more than you will ever imagine. Capturing this in a two dimensional image has always been a challenge for me. I used to think a composition showing their size or span conveyed that spirit bu...
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Window on Wood
February 11, 2013
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I am fascinated by the texture of natural things. Our world is three dimensional at all levels of size and our senses are well adapted to immerse ourselves in the varied textures around us. Walking in the woods one day aching with no other reason than to play around with a new lens I noticed this scene. The snow was very new, just fallen that morni...
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Turn back and see what you missed
January 06, 2013
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I almost drove by this scene without stopping. Traveling back home from a photographer's conference I was wondering about the conditions of the road ahead of me but just as I passed this line of trees faint sunlight came through the overcast and made the highlights in the trees glow. It was a mile or so down the road before my conscious brain react...
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Lines in the snow
December 30, 2012
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Just about any photography book describing composition will talk about leading lines or other design elements. These are tools used to guide your eyes as you scan an image and explore what it's showing. These tools help bring order to an image, helping it fit into our need for symmetry and boundaries.
The park near our house was simply agricultu...
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