Yellow Leaves
More traces of yellow to wind up my yellow-edge series – I have some other images, but am getting a bit tired of this series, so will be moving on tomorrow. This first image is on the back of a car in a driveway very close to the road – a bit too softly focused, but I still like it.
The second image has graffiti on a concrete power pole in the background to some mountain ash leaves, some of which are yellow. Notice the red creeping into both these shots? Just can’t keep it at bay.
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The third photograph is of a cedar hedge that glows yellow in many lights, but is very difficult to photograph as the green seems to elbow it’s way to the front. I caught some of it in this shot.
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The final shot is just the way it was. Someone was probably looking high and low for that roll of tape – “I just know I put it in the car.” This curb does not have footprints, but it does have a tire print.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens, ISO400, f 2.8: top: 1/60th; remaining three: 3 brackets +/- 1.0 E.V.
burnt embers 
I find this series has a bit of an edge. The man-made butting up against nature. Very cool.
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Thank you Karen. I think what I like about it is that even though much of the man made is very solid, and freshly painted, there is something about the natural which hints that it will prevail, given time.
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Those first two images are very imaginative – I love the compositions. The purists wouldn’t care for them (but what do they know!). Bold and cleverly constructed work. Isn’t it fun to break the rules.
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Hi Andy. It is fun to break the rules. I am not always aware when I am doing so though, since I am pretty ignorant of the rules of composition having not read up on them – I occasionally stumble across something about rules on the internet. It is an area that I feel a bit insecure about as since I mostly go by what seems right to me, and I have no clue if it feels good to other people, other than through comments (or lack thereof sometimes).
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Rules are there to be broken and it’s best to ignore them. If it looks right to you and rings true then that’s all that matters, in my opinion.
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Thanks for that. It’s what I think too, but without perhaps the requisite experience and knowledge to justify it.
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I love your blog. I end up enjoying such great photography, but I also seem to learn a little something about myself in the process. I really like these all, but the 2nd and 3rd images in this series are really, really wonderful.
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I am glad you like those ones. The one of the chair I also cropped and produced in black and white, which I like quite a lot. It might show up one of these days as well, but did not seem to fit with this series.
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You can keep up with the series as far as I’m concerned, I think it’s great. But, as you say, moving on…
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Thanks Ken. I will probably revisit the idea. Some things turned out a lot better than I expected they would.
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