Things I Find Cool – Page 3 – Daffodil Hill Photography

I am a pretty boring photographer when it comes to being creative. When I read the title of Paula’s Thursday Special: Abstract I had to look up abstract photography and see what it is about. Well now that I am more than a little confused by conflicting definitions and ideas of abstract photography I am not about how I will approach it. Here are five photos I have taking in the last month of so. With the Winter weather and gray days that accompanied them I had to really search for things to shot. This took me out of my comfort zone but the challenge helped me “see” different photography wise. Here they are and you tell me if they are or they are not abstract.

ClawZilla At Rest

Butterfly finally has been able to go outside some and I for one am glad. Me and my skin and needed the rest as the restless cat was beginning to make a nuisance of herself. With that said she seems to now prefer inside to outside and , well let the games begin. Here is one of ClawZilla’s peaceful paws.

Shadow play

Right off I must confess: This is not a great or even a good picture but it is cool. I was sitting at The Bride’s desk as the last rays of the day were making their selves known. I caught something out of my peripheral and turned towards it. What I say was the sun coming through one of the lenses of my glasses and making shadow play on the wall. I grabbed my Lumix DMC-ZS1 that was within reach and took this shot ” free-style”: I just basically guessed at where to point and took the shot so the camera’s shadow would not be present. Nor did I want it to look like I was taking a shot. Here is a little shadow play.

Waiting

An Icicle and A Drop To Be

Today I wanted to do some macro of the icicles and water droplets that are hanging off the front roof. I had used my iPod on a few and posted one on Instagram but wanted to use my extension tubes on some. Since yesterdays experience I know I will need a tripod. After checking out the situation I decided there was no safe way to do that quickly and moved to plan B. I broke out the PowerShot S3 and went at it.The end result: Water dropping on to the lens cover and rolling down inside the housing. Not good but after I dried it out I had an idea, and yes you should be afraid, and here is where it gets ~~brilliant~~ weird. I take an old magnifying glass I have, put the small high magnification spot over the lense. This should allow me to still shot in macro mode but I would not have to be as close to the subject, therefor missing the droplets. Nuff words….here is the shot.

Past Holding The Present

After being stuck in our home since early yesterday evening something had to give. I broke out the extension tubes, an old Minolta film lense, the A300 and went in search of a few good macro this afternoon. I picked water droplets: Too hard to focus properly but I will try again because I think I can figure that one out. Barb wire barbs: Could not get my back to cooperate with me bending over in the cold temps. I will also try those again in the Spring, all though there will not be snow on them, which was what I was trying to capture. Snow on dead vegetation: Had a little luck with that and non-snow covered dead vegetation. The challenge here was once again the wind. So out of the dozen or so shots I learned a bit and have new goals. Till the next time enjoy this little flower skeleton with snow on it. I thought the wind blew it out of frame but apparently I got this before it did.

Cool Old Bike As Digital Art

A few days back I posted a very cool old bike. As I worked on my taxes the last couple days I escaped to art as a way to decompress. This rendering of that bike is the result. Not sure if this is a result of my civil duty or simple artistic expression but any of you who are psych majors feel free to weigh in.