Water drops on leaf
Taken at the Williams Conservatory in Laramie, Wy.
Water drops on leaf ~
Color
Clouds to the west ~
Skeleton sky
Three clouds
Gold cloud
Lion cloud
These were taken yesterday evening in Longmont. The iPhone is not good at handling sunset light. The photo with the tree is pretty true in terms of color, and I was able to color-correct the image at bottom right reasonably well. For the other two I gave up and decided to just enjoy that inky blue.
Fiery ~
Inferno
iPhone photograph modified in Photoshop.
A little bit Lynchean ~
Colorado State University Horticulture Center. iPhone photograph taken late December 2018.
Gardens of Light ~
Snowflake gate
Praying mantis
Puffballs and trees
Hollyhocks
Corn, pumpkins, and grapes
Tree with stars
Saguaros
Lily pond
Christmas gifts
In Fort Collins there is a small botanic garden, the Gardens of Spring Creek, that turns on the holiday cheer and becomes the “Gardens of Light” for a few weeks. This Christmas Eve I joined dozens of other people who were walking through the display, where of course plants are the main theme. Here you’ll find giant coneflowers and daffodils and hollyhocks, vegetable plots with pumpkins and chilies and carrots, grapevines, a lily pond, and even Christmas cactuses (though not Christmas cactus). Little kids were running and giggling and adults were snapping photos. It was a bit nippy—exactly 32 degrees—and I was glad to warm up my hands afterward with the car heater. Happy holidays!
Iridescent ~
Iridescent
Even in winter the sun is intense here in Colorado and can really heat up a room. This curtain, which puts me in mind of butterfly wings, was keeping the sunlight out of the hair salon I go to, which has a southern exposure. I cropped the photograph and increased saturation slightly.
The world in a paint stripe ~
Two different versions of the same shot; wondering which one people will prefer. When I opened the original photograph onscreen I was struck by the resemblance to aspen bark. Besides a little extra saturation to the blue, the top version is just as the camera captured it. Later it struck me that a cropped version, rotated 90 degrees, appeared (to me) like a night landscape. There is so much to see even in a parking lot.
Fake aspen
Starry night/under the snow
Tempest ~
Tempest
Teal and magenta abstract ~
Teal and magenta abstract
Red stroke ~
Red stroke
When I’m painting (which I don’t do often enough), I use a pie tin for mixing the acrylics. After the paint is dry in the tin I can usually peel it off in large pieces, which I then photograph. This is my favorite of the palette photographs I’ve taken. It’s what I’d like to achieve in painting, but haven’t figured out how to do.
VAPOR AND FLOW 