04-MAY-2014
Dogwood Sunset
Dogwood bough at sunset in crossing selective light.
03-MAY-2014
Pussy Toes & Detritus, Black and White
Some pictures seem to require a black and white approach. Pussytoes is a common wildflower here and it finally goes to seed as a small puffball like a dandelion. The interesting thing is that nobody sees this stage, it is fleeting. The flower itself is tiny, about the size of the end of a pencil eraser.
As it often happens in nature, a strand of dead grass fell into the flower head, and served up an interesting abstract composition.
I like found abstract nature photos. The good ones seems relatively rare. This one pleases me.
02-MAY-2014
Backlit Dogwood Bloom with Natural Frame
This is a concept photo. Lots of bokeh, negative space, natural frame and and a single bloom just on fire. I like it, it is really different.
23-APR-2014
Horned Violet in Mixed Light, Ponca Wilderness
This is an unconventional wildflower photo. The flower is the point of the composition, but the context completes the expression. Most have a first impulse to take photos where the entire flower fills the frame. Over time, I have gone the other direction. I want to express the flower in context, and clearly in a moment in time, meaning a moment in light.
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
20-APR-2014
Rue Anemone at Sunrise, Ponca Wilderness