Dinner

Just-picked basil from the garden, some tomatoes and fresh mozzerella, layered on roasted garlic ciabatta bread.  This photography thing is getting to be a bit of an obsession as I find myself stopping at the market to pick up the cheese and tomatoes along with grapes to add additional color, then styling my dinner and shooting several shots before I sit down to enjoy the meal.  If you’re interested in shooting food images check out Stephen Hamilton’s Blog – The Restaurant Project.   He uses his cellphone to take a quick shot of a meal in a restaurant, then he comes back to his kitchen and studio to create a similar dish which he sets up to shoot creatively.

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Back In Time

Lesson learned from this shot – get out of the car, walk around, keep your eyes open.   We stopped at a farm stand and I wanted to walk down the road a short way to get a better angle on an image I wanted to capture.  As we passed this driveway I saw the old auto and the garage covered with old advertising signs.  I wished for the owner to come outside so I could talk to them and perhaps get some more information and closer shots.  Perhaps next time…

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Texture and Color

Marine decay offers up such nice textures along with colors and patinas in the peeling paint and aged metals.

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Have a Nice Day!

This happy-face kite has to you smile, just in case you’re not already having enough fun just flying a kite on a delightful, breezy warm day.

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Precision Flying

The Blue Angels made an appearance with some precision flying too!

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Let’s Go Fly A Kite!

The local Maritime Museum was holding it’s annual Kite Festival on the waterfront today.  The lawn was full of children and children-at-heart flying a wide variety of kites, including several that the children had made themselves at the kite-making station.  This dragon kite was one of the fanciest and most colorful.

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Round and Round…

I was drawn to the lines and geometric shapes of the hoops hanging on the barn door.  The neutral processing just seemed right to keep the focus on the shapes.

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Stars & Stripes Forever

And to end the military series, what could be more fitting than an image of our stars and stripes.

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Heading Home…

This overcoat and bag were displayed across a cot with a few other personal items in a small suitcase.  It reminded me of someone packing to head home so I gave it a bit of a warm glow in the processing.

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Necessities

This footlocker had a lot of items a soldier may have had with him; cigarettes, soap, a lighter and of course the pin-up girls!  I couldn’t quite figure out the baseball and glove though – it just didn’t seem like something that would have been packed in the trunk, but perhaps it was something a young soldier squirreled away with the rest of his belongings when he headed off to war as a reminder of home and a way to pass some free time.

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Danger

There was an extensive display of various elements of war.  The sunlight did a nice job of highlighting this minefield sign to make it stand out.

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On Guard

I was remiss in gathering up the details and I’ve already shown I’m not much of a historian so I can’t tell you if this and the photos I’ll be posting over the next few days are representing WWI or WWII or perhaps both.  Chime in if you can enlighten me.

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Tools of Warfare

I liked seeing how they rested their rifles.  I guess this it to keep them off the ground and have them at the ready so they can rush up and grab it easily if needed.  And in keeping with my recent Friday Photowalk Tip, I made sure I captured the details.

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Campsite

The actors took their roles seriously, setting up tents and camping out during the event, but the didn’t leave all the luxuries behind.  I had to crop out one of the actors eating a fresh banana while talking on his cellphone!

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Attention

This soldier had such a great face to photograph as he stood listening to one of his fellow actors talking to the children at the side of the field.  He stood patiently listening as if oblivious to my camera just a few feet away.

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Revolutionary War Reenactment

We visited a Civil & Revolutionarly War reenactment this past weekend and the images just cried out for some aging treatments to give them a period look.   I’ll be sharing several with you over the next few days.  And just for my friend Ron who is sure to cry out for the full color version (to help him recall the days when he lived it in person) I’ve posted the original below.

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Sept. 11 Tributes

Last night I made the trek into NYC again to take pictures of the 9/11 Tribute Lights.  The image above shows the lights behind Trinity Church.  Below, the Sphere at it’s temporary location in Battery Park.  It was originally located between the twin towers and was later pulled from the rubble.  It will eventually be returned to the World Trade Center site.  The flags are the Flag of Heroes, listing the names of the emergency services personnel that perished on 9/11.

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Italian Bread

Practicing with the lightbox a bit.  This shot was fairly successful in getting a bright white background which was cleaned up even more using Adobe Lightroom and the brush tool to bump the exposure in the background enhancing the whiteness.

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Abstracts

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The first image in the gallery (the most subdued of the 3) was the colorful but blurry image that results from too little light and no tripod, but I found something about the extreme blur and colors and light very appealing.  It just cried out for more processing to push the abstract quality.  The second image was processed using PSE7 and the Ink Outlines filter effect.  The third image was processed using Topaz Simplify – Image CrispEdge.  Which is your favorite?  (click on the gallery image for an enlarged view)

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Passion Flower

The white wall behind this Passion Flower vine created a nice reflective surface to help bounce back some light to enhance the image.

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