Naked Ladies are naked . . . of leaves. Â The flowers appear, and die off, and then the leaves appear. Â A member of the amaryllis family, they are a lovely seasonal bulb for the garden.
Category: Glimpses
Aliens Amongst Us
I’ve had an itch to create a Hockney-like photo collage . . . so I went out to the local botanical garden, camera in hand, and took a ton of pictures. Â All these were merged into a panorama as a precursor to making the choice of which one to create. Â It’s sort of hard to choose, but eventually I will make that choice. Â Nonetheless, I did get some photos to share.
Cacti always make me laugh (until I sit on one) because they are such crazy plants – beautiful, eerie, amazing. Â Having grown up in the woodlands of the midwest and east coast, I still find palms and cacti intriguing. Â And still alien in my concept of plants. Â So, the aliens amongst us are here to be seen.
Day’s End
Minarets Vista was a stone’s throw from our stay in Mammoth Lakes in August. Â Too lazy to get up at sunrise, ready to get there by sundown!
Sunset at Minarets Vista
Sunset and sunrise are the hardest images to work on in post – contrast issues, color issues, detail issues. Â My own monitors vary in color quality – I have one that always veers to over-saturation, so I use the other to attempt to reach some semblance of what I saw / see (not see-saw, see?) or want to evoke. Â The colors on this monitor are more subdued and not overdone, but I always wonder if the results are any good. Â That’s the problem, I guess, with cheap monitors. Â And, I am too cheap to replace them . . .
Into the Sun
The top of a mountain, surrounded by mountains; sunset comes quickly and the light gathers, flares, and fades away.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 