A Balance of Crows
I photographed this rail on a foggy morning last friday. Mostly I was shooting closeups but as I was leaving I noticed the symmetry of the park bench and the rail. A crow landed and threw my planned photo off-balance. I took a picture anyway. The other crow landed, but out of place. I took more pictures. Then that crow obligingly sidled to the right, and I made this picture. Had I any treats, they would have been paid; soon enough they flew away, refusing to be exploited any longer.
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Spider Flamboyance
I can’t think of a good antonym for minimalism to balance yesterday’s post about the simplicity that spiders can indulge in. This was taken the same morning as yesterday’s shots and just a few feet away.
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Spider Minimalism
The simplicity of spiders can be compelling, as I try to show here in two versions each for these two images. In this instance a dewy thread was strung high above the patio, catching the morning light.
I put part of a nearby bush in the corner of the first shot, and of the neighbour’s distant roof line in a corner of the second shot. I like the first shot better, but probably the last image in the post is my favourite of these four.
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Iris Writing II
More shots from the iris series of the shadows of grasses cast upon iris leaves, seen back lit from the far side like some kind of natural shadow-puppet show. As they moved in the breeze the shadows enlarged and shrunk in scope and detail and focus.
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Sky Jellies
I have never seen a sky filled with jelly fish until one morning on the way to work last summer. I did not have my camera, but my wife had hers. The bus was waiting and so I could not spend the time figuring out how to set her camera to raw and other preferred settings. Above is the image that resulted from my rather hasty fumbling. Better than nothing anyway!
I thought I would show how I processed this image with a series of steps as I progressed to the final version above.
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Leaf Arch
As a followup on Leaf Topography and Leafscapes of last week, I have some more teazle leave macros. The arch in the leaf structures really interested me and I took quite a few shots of it.
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Cosmic Web IV
More cosmic webs, previously shown in Cosmic Web, Iris Cosmos and Cosmic Web II and III. This time I am not cropping the original photography, but I have taken liberties in the processing to black and white. “Cosmic” this time has some of the meaning from the early 70’s, somewhat equivalent to “trippy”. Some of you know what I am talking aboout.
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