I always enjoy seeing the sandstone boulders and rocks in the Santa Monica mountains. How do they get the way they are? Who or what positioned them? These look as if they were cast down the hillside by some giant hand . . . These are yellow and red and make a wonderful background for the foliage and weeds of the chaparral.
While out shooting with the Voigtlander, I was just trying to use film up – I needed to see if there were any light leaks in the bellows. Light tight! This was done with Portra 400, and converted to B&W in Nik.
Out on a hike, I was putzing around with the video element of my camera, which I have never mastered as video doesn’t interest me. Somewhere in the midst of all of the putzing, I took this picture. The camera was pointed down, toward my feet, and here was the shadow on the dirt road upon which I wandered and putzed. I rather like the graphic quality here, as well as the textural.
I rather liked the detail of this picture, but the detail is not the leaves of the amaryllis, but the bokeh and the crosshatching of the screen. My studio window faces east, and this is what I saw early in the morning as the sun appeared over the horizon.
I do need to wash my windows and screens!
