Garlic Scapes

Garlic Scape by Parallax

Every week I get amazing vegetables from a local farm -- and this week, my share include these wonderful green curlicues (aka garlic scapes). I couldn't resist photographing them

Garlic Scapes, originally uploaded by parallax_photo.

Sneak Peak

, originally uploaded by parallax_photo.

Sneak peak just for blog-readers.

This will be up in the shop soon -- but not yet!

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(and is it corny/dorky that part of me calls this one "Homophone"?)

Razor Wire

Who knew something as fierce as razor wire could be this beautiful?

Untitled by Rafail Milani

I keep coming back to this photo, there's something so compelling about the curves of the wire and the contrast of light and shadow on it.

Something new to browse

Something new to browse...

Poking around on flickr today, looking for something interesting to post, when I found this The Commons,

Elizabeth Freeman (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

So now you can go through the Library of Congress's photostream (among others)

Black

And going all the way to the other end of the spectrum, this week I've been hunting for photos in black. (Look close, these are subtle)

First, a photo I adore, from a fellow etsy seller, Truis

Little Grey Kitty

And technology old and new on flickr

Long Time Silent from Fabio Fusco



Y We Do What We Do from DownTown Pictures

And one of my own personal favorites:

Old School from Parallax

Purchase "Old School" from Parallax

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5x7 $8.00 ACEO $4.00 Greeting Card $3.00

Working with White

I'm drawn, in my photography, to intense saturated colors and high contrast, so exploring all white photographs is something different, but I found some beauties.

This one is from Still Life, a simple architectural composition in classic lines and arches

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Stairs, originally uploaded by still. life..

And here's a still life of my own, a study in white with eggs ...

And a more modern image of a sail and all of its lines from Jerret Taylor

Sail

Purchase "Study in White" (middle) from Parallax

Sizes

8x10 $14.00 5x7 $8.00 ACEO $4.00 Greeting Card $3.00

New, and new!

I just added a new photograph in my Etsy Shop

Ripple Effect

I spent ages sitting by the edge of a pond with my camera out (come to think of it, not a place to sit), trying to time it just right to get the leaf just floating on the surface of the water as it rippled out. It's a bit melancholy, but so serene.

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And in other news, I'm diversifying. I've just opened up a shop with Cafe Press to try out cards etc. of my images. I'm still setting it up, but you can find Ripple Effect there too!

Colors .... and Black and White

Beautiful new treasury....

... including my tulips



MadrinPhotography curated this summer bouquet. Mandrin is a fellow etsy photographer (and jewelry maker) Her photography focuses on nature themes. These two black and whites are my favorites:

Hosta

Clematis II

I work mostly in color, but its amazing how sometimes taking out the color, adds so much to a photograph.

In the first one, the silvery tones highlight the beautiful curves of the leaves and the lines of the stems and veins.

In the second, there's something I can't quite put my finger on about the composition and the contrast of the white flower against the dark leaf, that brings to mind the old botanical illustrations.

For a long time, I didn't understand why you would want to take all the beautiful colors of the world and reduce them to grays. But, done right, black and white is both beautiful, and photographically important. Composing a photograph, is mostly about deciding what to include and what to leave out, focusing on one set of visual information by leaving everything else out. Black and white focuses attention on line, shape, texture, composition that we would have missed if the eye was distracted by a bright color.