Fence Row?

Fence Row

I was hiking through a part of the nature center less familiar to me the other day.  I noticed this line of trees.  You have to be standing nearly into it to see that it is a line.  I was aware that there were some trees in a straight line next to the trail.  I was not aware of how far this line extended.  I turned the camera the other way, 180 degrees, and noticed that it extended in that direction also.

Fence Row

The thing that started my thinking about this was what appeared to be a fence post at one point with a pink flag on it.  I am unaware of any other posts.  The trees are located in an irregular fashion within the line so you don't notice a pattern until you are "in" the line.  This must say something about how we perceive things.

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Intimate Landscape

Pond Grasses

I have been thinking of this as an intimate landscape.  It has near range, medium range, and far range subjects.  I am sure that you will notice the defect immediately.  If you do, please tell me and receive a prize in the mail, if you are the first to respond.

It leads my eye out from the shore, through the gap and to the bright sunlight on the other side.  It is such a quick move that I must then come back and examine the ice in the little "bay" just off shore.

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Writing with Light

White False Indigo

I have been loving the ice on the pond at Gorman.  Without snow, we can actually see the ice.  The "finish" on the ice has a sheen.  It is reflective though not strongly so.  I have been calling it a "patina."  That feeling motivated me to make this shot.  I arrived there after sunrise.

The next shot with the same plant was created on a cloudy day.  It has a much darker feeling but still shows the patina.  

White False Indigo

This shot works alright but the feeling for me is way different.  My eye likes the leading line of the shore and follows it down to the other end of the pond.  I see the patina on the ice but it definitely lacks the feeling I get in the next one.  This one feels dark to me.  Not exceptionally dark but dark non-the-less.

White False Indigo

This one makes my heart sing.  The sun was still behind the trees on the right and there where clouds in the sky directly across from pond.  They make an interesting reflection on the patina of the ice.  I like this one the best of all of these.  What do think?

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Deformed Rocks for the Decorator

Deformed Rock

This is the other side of the rock I showed you yesterday.  I found myself thinking, "I wonder what Carol would think of this?"  I decided that she would not like the yellow for decorating.  I decided to try an experiment.  It seems that some folks really like a shade of blue for their decorating.  I started thinking out of the box and made some drastic color changes.  

Blue Deformed Rock

I added two color adjustment layers in Photoshop to the first image at the top.  I moved all three sliders toward cyan, green and blue for highlights, mid-tones, and shadows.  I liked the result except for the lower left corner which contained too much yellow.  I added the second layer and made even more drastic adjustments as I watched that lower left portion.  I then masked off the drastic adjustments except for the lower left area.  

I made a 4x6 print and put it on the coffee table without saying anything.  I know in the first few seconds whether Carol likes something.  She does too.  She said that she wanted a large print of it.  I was feeling deceptive at first and eventually started to tell her what I had done.  I decided that if she still wanted the print after I told her, I would make it for her.  She did not seem bothered by the info, but I am not sure she understood what I was saying.  I will catch her in a moment when I have her attention and tell and show her.  I think that I will ask her to help me make those adjustments.  (I did not keep the adjustments after I made the 4x6 so I must redo it with her help.) 

I remember telling you that I have a poor color memory, but in this case I nailed it.  She liked it immediately.

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Deformed Rock

Deformed Rock

I found this rock while looking through the bucket of rocks.  I was immediately drawn to it.  The curved lines are mesmerizing.  I started wondering how it was made.  I would have expected to see the lines straight like a tootsie roll first and then be bent or folded by some strong force.  I looked in my field guides for an ID.  It appears to be Chalcedony, a derivative of quartz.  Heat made it pliable like the tootsie roll and then the force bent it.  If the tootsie roll were in the freezer before the force was applied, it might break instead of bend. The freezer would be like the rock being on the surface of the earth.  The heat, of course, came from down inside the earth.  The force, no doubt, came from there also.

While looking into this, I found a marvelous resource on the web.  It is at kids.gov.  It is called The Dynamic Earth.  It is published by The Smithsonian Institute and it relates to this and other issues.  

Deformed Rock

These rocks would be beautiful as they come out of the tumbler!  The thing that I am noticing for photography is that I would almost rather they retain the sharp corners and edges.  They are more interesting.  They don't have the shiny surface which is an added difficulty when photographing them.

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Little Bluestem

Little Bluestem Grass

I have been playing around with video for almost a year now.  I received some accessories for my camera for Christmas which might help me improve my work.  This is a video showing how the appearance of the grass changes as the camera pans.  My thought is that it is the way the light hits it.  That is the way I explain it in the video but I am open to other explanations.  If you have one, please share!

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GNC Nature Sounds

Sony PCM D50 Linear Recorder

I released a CD over the holidays.  I recorded it on the above recorder at Gorman.  It was recorded last fall.  It is now available at Amazon.com.  You can hear samples of the tracks there and at www.larrysimages.com.  I fulfill the CD orders from my office.  The MP3 downloads are fulfilled there at Amazon.  I would like your reaction.  I consider it "relaxation" music.  Two of my grandsons listen while going to sleep at night.  My friend, David, likes to listen while he reads.  It serves best, in my opinion, as background music.

Gorman Nature Center is a suburban interface between humans and nature.  As such, there are some road sounds, though I try to eliminate them as much as possible.  I made a recording for a future album the other day which ended with a gun shot.  Muzzle Loader Deer Season was in.  I am unsure whether I like it or not.  It is definitely Gorman Nature Center, though.  I have seen people in camouflage clothing walking down the trail trying to scare the deer out of the protection of the Nature Center.

Album Cover

Let me know what you think even if you don't buy it.  Thanks for your help.

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