Cars and more cars

 

I am playing with the idea of manipulating current images I have of un-restored classic cars.  For my gallery series I have been using just straight photographs, edited only for color correction and cropping.  Here I have before and after shots.  I used Photoshop to create a sort of a cut-paper effect by selecting colors with the Magic wand tool and filling in sections on different layers. I’m not sure how I feel about the results.  I mean I think they are really interesting and definately highlight the facial features of the cars but I’m not sure how original the concept is or if it’s worth taking to the gallery level.  Maybe I should just stick to straight photography?

 

 

Bridge Series

One of my favorite places on my grandparents farm is a wooden bridge.  To get there you had to leave the main yard and go into the pasture (sometimes goats or horses were out here, but mostly just rabbits and deer).  The grassy path was usually cut fairly short because my grandmother has a horrible fear of snakes.  You go almost to the middle of the pasture and then turn down a fairly good hill before the land levels out right up to the creek.  It was so far from the house that it always felt kind of magical.  And the fact that there was this long exciting trek leading to a bridge with no visible path on the other side made is mysterious.  When you get down there nowadays all you hear is the wind in the trees, hounds baying in the distance, echoing off the mountains.  Most of the birdsong is hushed and there’s a pleasant tension as if the forest had been waiting anxiously for you all day.  My grandmother (who is rumored to be Fae herself) used to tell stories about fairies in the woods, and maybe there are.   2003  Spring 2007        Winter 2007      Winter 2007     Winter 2007     Winter 2007     Winter 2007     Winter 2007 

Lions and tigers and…flamingos?

I had a lovely trip to the zoo today.  We went an hour before closing (4ish) so the light was awesome.  I had a lot of fun “shooting from the hip” you could say.  I took a zillion pictures of everything I saw.  Here are my favorites.         

En Garde!

I’ve never really worked in digital or color at this level before.  I’ve been working with black and white film since high school and I’ve been kind of intimidated.  I don’t know why.  Honestly I’m having a blast figuring it out.  My early graduation present was a Canon Rebel XTi from my parents.  I’ve literally been walking around taking pictures non-stop of whatever I see.  Luckily I see some pretty interesting things! No honestly my entire family has a complex about throwing things away.  Especially at  my grandparents.  You never know what you’ll find at their house, which is where we discovered this fencing mask.  My boyfriend was snooping around and put it on insisting that wherever there was a fencing mask there had to be a sword.  Okay well his logic might work somewhere else; not here.  But I’m so glad I had my camera with me because it was worth remembering!