Vanishing Point

I got an iPhone, which replaces several of the items I had been carrying with me everywhere: my iPod, small camera, and phone. The camera aspect leaves something to be desired, but does give me some flexibility to grab a shot when I see it. So my small travel camera is now in my desk drawer, and the small iPod in my gym bag.

I find this shot simplistically satisfying. Simple vanishing point, primary colors, high contrast. Might have been more interesting if the train were moving. The iPhone with it's small lens and lack of flash, generally has a long "exposure" time, so movement can be captured.

This is the blue line at Aquarium in Boston.

Chihuly Installation at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix

I spent several hours exploring the exhibit, going from broad daylight to dusk to darkness. Really a stunning exhibit. Full sun:


For photos of entire pieces, see the exhibit description. I tend to be more interested in details or context-free compositions, yet I like the photo above because it's showing a detail of the piece, and yet the full context of the piece.


This one catches the desert light as the sun begins to drop toward the horizon.


This was all done with a little point-and-shoot auto-focus digital camera. No polarizing lenses, no star-effect lenses, nothin'. The light is really that spectacular.

The Dolls - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

I like how this turned out. It looks contrived, but this image was shot as found, a child's dolls thrown haphazardly on the grounds of the sculpture park at the DeCordova. Should I crop out (or photoshop out) the shadow on the bottom left, or leave it?

Mohican State Park, Ohio

The two teenage boys were standing perfectly still for quite a while, just looking out at the lake.

Scarf

I took a lot of shots of this silk scarf, trying to capture the movement of the scarf in the wind of a late spring day. I was trying to capture the feeling of being suspended in a calm moment in time, the childhood feeling of having a whole summer ahead and your time open and free. (Do any kids get that wonderful feeling anymore? Or are their summers so scheduled with activities that they never get to experience those wonderful childhood moments of being lost in an activity with nothing to stop them?)

Snack with a View

London: Taking a break at the Tate Modern

Three steps

...or three states. Solid, liquid, gas. No plasma in sight, however. (And what's jello, anyway? A solid? Oh, no, wait... it's proteins suspended in liquid. Colloid. Although when I was growing up it was canned pineapple suspended in lime green jiggles.)
As for the image, I liked the contrast of the rocks to the water, and the stark shadows versus the somewhat out-of-focus water.

Charles River, Winter

There's something about having context stripped away, leaving just the essence of the pattern or color

Toulouse 2008.
I liked the red against the grassy background,and the bit of moss growing on the top.

Sweet Pea

Yellow

Taken at the Sanderson Hotel, London.

Blur

This was taken from a moving car in the rain. There's blur from the motion, but also the water on the window.

Spiral

Another view of a fire hydrant. The snail caught my eye against the red of the hydrant, and it was only later that I realized there were two spirals in the image, man-made and natural, fractal and linear.

Unexpected Beauty

All photography is editing. This is a close-up shot of part of a fire hydrant on the cape.