photo-a-day 2 16/30

Risking getting hit by a car I took this today.  What compelled me to take the shot when traffic was busiest must have been the sun glint off the rails, an ooh shiny moment.  I wish I had a little more time to change the focus a hair up the frame, but for off the hip I like this plenty fine.  I was attempting a great deal of depth and I think the complex subject made it very easy.  Fresh rain on the street has always been a very appealing thing to me, and what has attracted to me to stay in the pacific northwest.

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photo-a-day 2 15/20

As much as a self portrait one would be able to get out of me utilizing this media.  Even thought that was not primary result of this, I was still aware that my image would inevitably buried amongst all the lines of both the elevator shaft and the reflection.  If I remember correctly there was a little construction going on behind me, hence the large truck.  If you step back from the detail though, it as if I created a plaid out of reflection and object.

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photo-a-day 2 14/20

Another example of micro worlds turned larger, through macro and close up techniques.  Again foreground objects were ignored to create a more centered and balanced focus, and add to the overall terrain view one might expect if looking off into the distance.  Nature has provided a nice almost dead palette.

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photo-a-day 2 13/20

I had some technical difficulties, but here is the photo-a-day resumed.

I always found that simplicity is sometimes the best story provider.  Here a silhouette of a telephone pole stands in front of a painted sky.  This was taken at sunset, from the balcony of an old apartment of mine. Nothing here was manipulated, just luck in sky conditions and timing.  I chose to keep the telephone pole present as to give the photo more depth and to give the picture more context than something completely abstract that would be just the clouds.

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photo-a-day 2 12/20

I was experimenting with the focus a bit here in hopes to exaggerate the colors of the scene.  The daisies in the back ended up being the point of focus, and not the flower in the foreground.  This I wanted to feel like a splash of paint interrupting the focus.  The odd focus also lends itself to an overall fake plastic look to the entire whole.  This was taken on a bright sunny day which furthered my goal of super saturated colors.

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photo-a-day 2 11/20

If you haven't noticed, I like to take photos of architecture reflecting other architecture.  Generally this is a highrise from a distance with a nice glass surface reflecting a building near it.  Here I approach a similar idea, but this time I'm closer to the reflector.  This is a glass elevator shaft with the elevator lifted above.  I angled this with a slight tilt to give it a better flow and direction.  Parts of the elevator shaft line up nicely with the buildings' verticals and horizontals giving a sense of balance and unity.  The trees cut up the forms to add an organic element adding more depth to the overall frame.

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photo-a-day 2 10/20

The light conditions for this ended up being exactly what I wanted.  A case of being at the right place at the right time.  The angle was low as this odd plant is more of a bush shape that only comes up to mu chest or so.  A macro setting was used to give a different focus to the whole as I wanted to un-focus the rear of the image even more to create a more abstract feel to that part of the frame.  I think the light lent itself to help the greens' vibrance not diminish in this.

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