Went out to the Arcata Marsh a little before 7 this morning. Learning how to focus my Canon EOS M with a Leica 50mm Summicron and Magic Lantern. ML’s edge highlighting didn’t help much. Using Live View in magnify mode really worked well. Halfway around the lake, there was a patch of these morning glories. I don’t think I’d ever seen white ones before.
This image has been printed for an upcoming show on Canson Aquarelle watercolor paper coated with a pearl iridescent precoat. Makes the image really pop.
Software prep of the image was with Lightroom, Photoshop, and Corel Painter. A Lighten layer with normal blending mode and a Darken layer with luminosity blending mode of the painted image were what gave most of the effect. Then lots of fine tuning.
In the print the distracting background was darkened to put more focus on the rose.
Our friend Steve kindly invited us to go on his jet boat up the Klamath River last Fall. It’s a beautiful and wild place.
All the rhodies but this one in the front yard have dropped their blossoms. This was the last bloomer. Nice that it rained an hour before I shot the picture.
A couple of years ago, I drove the Fandango Pass road east to west. This was one of the main routes that easterners used to reach the gold country in the 1850’s. As one of my ancestors had come this way, I wanted to see what it was like. Parts of it were steep, some scenic, and some just surprising like this image.
When I came around a bend near the end of the pass, I came upon this barn. It was black … like evil black. I stopped and took photos. When I got home and started to process the images, the photo didn’t look at all like what I saw. It just looked like an old barn. It’s has taken me, on and off, two years to get the image to appear like what I saw.
Yes, the two big birds on the roof peak are Canada Geese.
Really she’s a tourist listening to a guide type. This is in the Palais Garnier which is the Paris opera house that opened in 1669.
In 1981, I saw this clock for the first time. I was amazed and watched it for an hour. The man swung the sword; the dragon climbed; the rooster crowed; the crab crawled. I stumbled across it again last month when I was walking over to Rue St. Denis to see the covered passages. What I found was a beautiful four meter tall mechanical clock that the city of Paris has left broken since 2003. To see how this marvel came about, please see http://www.jacques-monestier.com/fr/reportages/defenseur_crea.php.
Just spent 3 weeks at an apartment in Paris. I hadn’t been there in 35 years. Since I had been to all the touristy places before, I spent a lot of time figuring out what I really wanted to see. Near the top of my list was the Musée d’Orsay which is a former train station turned museum.
On the fruitless hunt for the FLV in the Bois de Bologne
Pam Cone and I have a driftwood themed show coming up for March. We’re doing emulsion transfer prints on gessoed birch with hand made frames. We’re doing fourteen of them. Needless to say, driftwood is pretty much all I’m working on right now.
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