"With the eyes of a child we must come out and see. . . " (read more)
Read More06-18-15 A Tree Grows in the City
Can you say "juxtaposition?" . . . (read more)
Read More06-17-15 Purple and Gold
in Blog, Art, flower, Macro, Photography
Step in to my fancy studio and I'll tell you a secret. . . (read more)
Read More06-16-15 Old Friends?
"They sat on their park bench like bookends. . ." (read more)
Read More06-14-15 Bird's Eye View
in Architecture, Blog, HDR
Sometimes I lose track of time, self and place when I take photos. But on this assignment, I actually levitated. . . (read more)
Read More06-13-15 They Say It's Your Birthday (Athens 6-13-06)
I suspect Deb will not consider a simple blog post a worthy birthday present. . . .
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06-06-15 More Than 50 Shades of Gray
in Black Hills, Blog, HDR, Landscape, Nature, Photography
B&W; not S&M . . . (read more)
Read More05-04-15 How Do I Do This?
in Blog, Black Hills, HDR, Landscape, Nature, Photography, South Dakota
Charlie Brown says that humans love to watch three things. Fire and water are two. Do you know what the third is?
Read More06-03-15 Expectations
Grandchild #2 will soon be here :-) (read more)
Read More06-02-15 "It's My Birthday" (Glenyce Jane at 2)
By Scott Shephard
We spent the weekend in Minnesota to help celebrate the birthday of our granddaughter Glenyce Jane. She is actually two years old today and it just happens that it is her "golden birthday": she is two years old on the 2nd. We only get one golden birthday.
I'm not sure she understands the concept of "birthdays," but she did understand how to make the bubble machine work. I look forward to warmer weather so she can test the two water squirting sharks I picked out for her. The concept with these is to aim them at her father, not her mother.
Canon 5DIII 1/500s f/4.0 ISO100 24mm
A few others from the day: (click to see them bigger)
And from two short years ago:
05-23-15 The Mighty Oak
By Scott Shephard
I have been in the Black Hills for a week and I have taken very few photos. And it's not as if I felt like I needed a break. The truth is that I have lacked ambition. Also, when I'm at the cabin I sometimes feel like I'm seeing the same places with the same eyes. Nothing seems new.
The nice thing about "doing" photography, however, is that I have found that when I pick up my camera and wander around with the intent to take photos, the subjects often find me.
And so, yesterday, in waning daylight, I went hunting. It only took a minute for the bright green of these fledgling oak leaves to draw my eyes.
This morning as I write, the word "evanescent" comes to mind. It means "soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing." Much of what we see is evanescent. But the power of photography is that we can capture evanescent moments in our frame. These bright green baby oak leaves and the fading, but perfectly soft light that illuminates them, will soon pass.
But the photograph remains.
Canon 5DIII 1/60s f/4.0 ISO400 100mm
05-22-15 Picturesque
in Black Hills, Blog, Landscape, Seasons, South Dakota
The best snow decorates the trees and then melts. . . (read more)
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