While the resurrection ferns along Piney Woods Church Road are still green, I took the opportunity to take a few more photographs of them. Here is a trio of new images.
Mar 092014
Mar 092014
I am not sure what draws me to this rather abstract image of the woods on Piney Woods Church Road, nor why I feel compelled to title it “Balance Point”. But here it is.
Mar 042014
Having provided readers with a couple of bright images, I have decided to include this one, too — an image so monochromatic that changing it to black and white makes no visible change at all. There is something peaceful, though, about gazing through the branches with half-focused eyes, admiring nature’s geometry….
Mar 012014
Outside the Day Butterfly Center, a Japanese star magnolia tree was coming into bloom in the late afternoon light.
Mar 012014
From yesterday’s visit to the Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens, here are images of two butterflies that were willing to be photographed: an owl butterfly (with the prominent eye spots on the undersides of the wings) and a paper kite. There were many others that offered me only transitory glimpses, dashing off before I could focus the camera lens….
Mar 012014
I ventured to Callaway Gardens yesterday afternoon, spending nearly two hours in the Day Butterfly Center. The result, of course, is these photographs of…tropical plant leaves. I must say that the leaves were much more willing subjects for the lens than the butterflies. I will include a few butterfly images in a second post from my trip. Meanwhile, these leaves often welcome splashes of color in a drab, still somewhat wintery, time of year.
Mar 012014
I turned the corner onto Piney Woods Church Road this afternoon to be greeted by the first orb web I have seen this season. The minute spider was resting near the center of her construction. There were some imperfections in the web’s symmetry; but then again, the young spider, like this photographer, is a novice at her craft.
Feb 282014
I am continuing to explore the geometries of leaf and background. Water oak leaves this time of year make such entrancing subjects. Only, with this photograph, I find myself drawn, instead, to the light beyond the leaf.
Feb 272014
After a marvelous day-long composition workshop with Kathryn Kolb last weekend, I have been thinking a great deal about geometry and nature. I have begun exploring the diverse colors and forms all around me on my Piney Woods Church Road walk. Water oak leaves in winter, with their vibrant splotches of green, orange, red, and brown, make fascinating subjects for the camera lens. Until today, I have always concentrated on entire leaves and clusters of leaves. This time, I zoomed the lens a bit further; The result is this image.
