For Mom

This one is for my Mom - who is a professional artist. She will always be a professional artist, whether she has a paintbrush in her hand or not. During her "hey day", she had galleries throughout the USA - New York, Boston, Maine, Florida - oh snap - I don't really know - as my Mom was and is just "Mom". But back then - she always cheered me on in photography - and she was always keen on color, composition, light and textures. 

And today - she still cheers me on.

Anyway - this is a single image from a Sony A7R II with the Sony/Zeiss  16-35mm f/4 lens taken a few days ago in North Carolina on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

In this image - I wanted to focus on color complementary hues/tones, and set an image which was balanced both visually and dynamically. The processing, I did last night while being stranded at the airport - and, well - I "kind'a got into it" - pushing some of my boundaries in post-processing.

The original image was taken on the Blueridge Parkway - and it was processed from a single RAW file. Brought into LR, then PS - oh dang  - I can't tell you everything I did to it, as Mozart was playing in my earphones and I kind'a got lost into just "working" it at between about 1:30 - 3:30 AM this morning in the airport...

Anyway - thanks Mom...

This one is for you.

Snow Capped

Taken yesterday morning during a snowstorm, this tiny plant was 14" (35.5 cm) away, and using a Sony NEX 7 with a Olympus/Zuiko 50mm f/1.2 - and shot at f1.2 - yields a total DOF of exactly 0.04" (0.02 cm) - which produces some wonderful results.

Breakwater

Breakwater. The image struck me as I was shooting, simply watching the waves and wind strike one side of the jetty while the ocean was perfectly calm on the opposite side. I could draw numerous analogies to life, people and social norms - but, I'll spare all those quotes.

Sony A7RII with the Sony-Zeiss 16-35mm f/4 taken February 25, 2016.  Long exposure with an ND 3 stop filter. Post-processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Thank you for looking!

The Trail

Taken earlier this week in Bellamy NWR, Dover NH USA.  While the snow comes and goes, it allows outstanding photo opportunities as there are huge expanses of natural habitat that most folks don't go into given the recent weather. And tomorrow? We are expecting snow, sleet and freezing rain. What I saw, and liked, are the subtle tire tracks leading my eye to the incredible winter sky.

Sony A7R with the Sony-Zeiss 16-35mm f/4 lens. Post-processed in Lightroom and Photoshop

Spring Break

What a terrific day today - it is finally feeling a bit like spring.  Taken today in the late morning in an estuary.  Given the weather, I was surprised that no one was in the 120 acre refuge.

Sony A7R II with a Sony-Zeiss 16-35mm. I used an 10 stop ND filter to show the motion in the water. 

Looking West

The weather over the past week has been a bit silly.  Either bright blue skies without any detail, and sunrises and sunsets of the same - or incredibly cloudy skies without any detail. But, today - was a bit different, as some clouds started moving in after sunrise.

This was taken earlier today with my Sony NEX-7 and the 10-18mm f/4 Sony E mount lens. Post processed in Lightroom and Photoshop, it is from the Audubon Tract in Dover NH USA which is an estuary that is fabulous. While the weather today was incredible - there wasn't another single person out during the three plus hours I was shooting at this location. That was a bonus, for sure...