Light and Ice

Shots that just happened.

What you are seeing are greyscale conversions of a large piece of ice sitting in front of my monitor at night. With all the colors shining through, it was so beautiful that I had to grab a few shots.

All shots were taken with the Lensbaby.

Im planning on entering 3 to 5 of these images into a contest so if anybody would like to tell me which ones they like the most, I would be very grateful.


Aurora



Sun Spot


Comet


Tail End


Surface


Dunes


Wave



Sun Spot 2

Been a while

since I posted. Not sure why. These two images are by far my favorite images taken to date. I could stare at them for hours.
These are knuckle sections of a dead cholla cactus. I took the shots with my lensbaby using a macro lens attachment.
In processing, I messed up with the blue slider in gray scale and that is what produced the strange, paint like affect. I really love it.

Shadows

of a tree on the side of a building. Not sure what that little shed thing is but I really liked tree shadow was covering it up.

New Passion

Night time shots of trees. Good golly these things just came alive before my eyes. I cant wait to go out and get more pix! They all have their own personalities too. I see it now in processing but I didnt really see it when I was taking the pix but now that I know what to look for, I cant wait to go out and find new friends. I think this is really, really exciting.

Random desert scenery

Just a few more pix from yesterdays shooting trip. I didnt quite manage to show in digi the interesting layering affect I saw between the butte and the snow covered mountains as I was driving past them. Because of their great distance from me and from each other, they moved at different speeds to one another as I drove past and it was a really strange opitical illusion. It was like those cardboard waves on a stage moving back and forth in front of a cardboard boat. I had to get a snappy of it and in some ways you can see the layers but its a pitty they arent moving.




A sign. For some reason I had to get a pic of this. Saw it a week ago and had to come back and get a pic of it. It was the only pic I decided to NOT convert to b&w to post here, though I did convert it. I just think I like the color version much more.



Another bee home this. I dont even know what this place was. It was a tin shack with a huge piece of machinery inside. It was too dark inside to get the images I wanted so I just took this pic of a window. Those bullet holes on the side look pretty much like eyes I think.

New abandoned homes

Had to get away from my school work for a bit yesterday and went out to take some pix, even though it was raining. My niece found this group of abandoned homes stuck between farm land. It was such a strange place and I got bad feelings here. Well, at least at two of the homes I did. The smallest of the three houses had a happy feeling and I wanted to rescue it. Instead I took a pic of it.

The place was odd though. It was really strange to see three homes all abandoned in this way, and they are fairly recently abandoned, like in the last 5 years, and many of them still had furniture inside them. The ground around all of the homes was very strange. It was spongy, like foam. I couldnt tell if it was insulation or hay or both that we were walking on. At one point it was almost a mostly eaten dog that I was stepping on but instinct reminded me to look down right at that moment and I was able to avoid it.

All three homes had their own properties too. This wasnt one lot with three homes on it. It was 3 separate lots. How do three separate homes in one area get abandoned like that? Did everybody living there all have the same job? How could they all have been affected the same way? And are those same people still alive someplace? Do they care about these homes they left behind? How do homes get abandoned? I would think that at least the banks would care about them.

This was a group of three trees growing out in front of the small house that I liked.




This was the creepiest house of the three and the largest by far. It had furniture everywhere and tons of bees. At least these abandoned homes are providing a sancturary for bees because I havent seen bees for a few years at least.



The littlest house. And my favorite. This place had happy vibes. I really did want to rescue it.

Fear

A couple of images inspired by something my kung fu instructor said on Saturday. He was talking about what happens to our vision when we get really frightened and how it narrows and can disappear almost entirely so we have to learn how to defend ourselves even when we cant see. That immediately made me think of why photographs that have a blurry outline can be so emotional for people. I think it triggers a fear response. So I grabbed the Lensbaby and took a few shots that for me were kinda scary.

They are shots of dark rooms beyond the light. So dark that you cant see your hand reaching for the light switch and anything can grab it at any time and you would never see it coming.