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Winter Teasel

I really like Teasel throughout all the seasons. This is an image I shot on the fly this past weekend and had/has a background that I really don’t like. Actually, I can say that I hated the background on the original image. So with nothing else to do when I got back home, I started [...]

Paper Birch

I hope you didn’t think I was walking away from abstracts be they motion blurs, Lensbabies or whatever! I just took a short break. This morning I went out before sunrise and made a variety of images from the real to the possibly surreal. This falls toward the abstract side but probably in the middle [...]

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)

 

This is one my favorite early Spring wildflowers. Last year I found a few along my local stream and made a few images. Then they were gone. As this Spring came around, I started to look forward to seeking them out once again. Saturday evening, I found my first Trout Lilies of the season down [...]

Backgrounds

I’ve been spending a lot of time over this past winter thinking about backgrounds. Maybe I have been spending more time thinking about the backgrounds than I have been thinking about the actual subject itself. I spent considerable time over the past year or two working to perfect backgrounds along the lines of the one [...]