More flowers. On February 2 my flowers were at the height of their beauty, probably, and poised to nosedive into decadence. So I took advantage of these very willing subjects, who posed for thirty more photos, taken with the Pentax K100D and the Tokina 28-mm lens both with and without a macro adapter (or is it adaptor? Anybody got a spell-checker handy?) lens.
I am pleased. I hope you will be, too. Wallpaper away!
What's (next) newest here:
My friend Glenn gave me an enormous bunch of flowers for my birthday on January 27, and on the 31st, completely discouraged by my seeming inability to play guitar that evening, I photographed them close-up with my Panasonic Lumix FX12 and with my Pentax K-100D using its Pentax 40-mm prime lens and the admirable Tokina 28-mm lens, all in dim light. A slideshow can be seen here.
What the name means: mindful refers to the practice of mindfulness common among Buddhists. I practice this when I think to.
Dragon comes from my being born in a Year of the Dragon, 1940. *
I've been photographing, with some lapses, for just over a half century as I write this. (Summer 2007.)
To see some minimalist photography from July 2007, just go here.
And for some more minimalism, from August 4, 2007, try this Picasa display:
Click here.
For some photos incorporating or consisting of blur, one of my favorite things, try these.
More blur at this location.
For three outdoor images in low-key, high-contrast grayscale, go here. And for an essay prompted by those photos, look here.
For pretty damn dramatic photos of a catastrophic early 2002 ice storm in Kansas City, visit this location.
For a view of a small part of the Nelson-Atkins Museum (a mile from where I live) and its internationally acclaimed new, mostly-glass additions, go here.
Four photos of light snowfall behind tree debris: here.
Two New Year's Day 2008 still-lifes: here and here.
Here are three images that seem dreamlike to me. I made them with the Digital Concepts camera (the camera that makes you trust to luck all the way!); they are somewhat edited in The Gimp, not that that matters. One by one, they are:
Turquoise ring
Saucers with napkin and (a few) crumbs
and...
Pasta, fork, blue bowl
Around midnight on January 24-25, I made one of my all-too-frequent treks to Quik Trip for junk food. I need junk food to watch movies with.
I took along the faithful little Fuji A-350 to test its "night" capability, which I somehow had failed to play with up till today. The result is these three photos:
Utility room door with snow
Rail and shrubs with snow at midnight
Ice in street at midnight
They gave me the opportunity to do more high-contrast stuff. This is not the so-called "solarizing" trick that the Pocketcam X offers, though. I did this with my photo editor (The Gimp).
January 26, 2008. Two more photos, taken with Pentax K100-D DSLR and edited for high contrast: Pattern 1 and Pattern 2. I especially like the suggestion of harried calligraphy in "Pattern 2." ("Harried calligraphy" is not exactly original, though it expresses exactly what I want to express. A haiku I read aeons ago had the line "quick hurried calligraphy" and it was about a swallow that mistakenly entered a candle-lit room. In autumn, no doubt. I'm sorry I can't point to the exact source as I probably no longer possess the collection of haikaï it was in.)
*Due to lunar technicalities, I'm most likely a rabbit, but "Mindful Rabbit" just doesn't sound cool at all.
