Hobos Landing

Wandered in and around the cactus patch today (yes, in shorts and flip flops) and took some shots.

Hypodermic

Long Shadow

Stick In The Sky

Color Sucked By A Needle

Look Me In The Eye

I had a big friend for company!

Here’s an interesting experiment that I decided to try.

Ring In Book - Blue Tint

I had seen this done before, but I discovered that with some adjusting of the position of the light, you could not only get the heart in the ring shadow but a heart in the larger light. This photo and the one that follows have almost no post processing done with the exception of a crop and some color tone, but the heart light is right out of the camera. I used a large hand held work light that you can get at any hardware store, like Home Depot. The light was shined almost directly behind the ring at a relatively high angle. The camera was stopped down 2 full stops to black out the areas outside the heart.

Ring In Book - Orange Tint

This one is the same photo as above, but I took it into photoshop and added the flare on the crown of the ring. Not sure if I like it better or not, but I decided to include it for reference. What do y’all think?

Ring In Book - Orange Tint with Flare

I’ve been wanting to try so long exposure photography for a while now so I set my camera to manual 30 second exposure, grabbed the tripod and set out on the ranch in the dark.

Since there were stars out and some interesting clouds, I started with the night sky.  This is facing North (approx) on the front of the property.

Northern Night Sky

This one is a tree in the moonlight.  Again, a 30 second exposure.  Once I began to process it, I did a duo-tone process that seemed to turn out rather well.

Tree shadow in moonlight

I saw some great shadow coming through the blinds on to my old acoustic guitar so I grabbed the camera and started shooting.

Light, Shadow and Sting

Light, Shadow and Strings

Light, Shadow and Strings