Feb 112014
 

While sitting at the keyboard monitoring the approaching ice storm on Weather.com radar every five minutes or so, I thought I might post another abstract photograph, this time one from earlier today.  I took this shot looking into the woods near Rico Road.  Using the telephoto zoom and focusing on a nearer object, I managed to bring the rest of the image out of focus.  Keeping my finger halfway down on the exposure button and then moving my camera enabled me to circumvent the auto-focus feature and produce a few intriguing abstract images.  How I ended up with these colors (with minimal post-processing on my part) by shooting a photo looking into a gray-brown forest in winter is not entirely clear.

Into the Woods

Jan 072014
 

Only a couple of days ago, I recall setting off down Piney Woods Church Road, from its intersection with Rico Road, and finding deep muddy ruts along the road edge.  I remember being upset by this disfigurement of my daily journey.  Yet, passing by that same spot today, I discovered the beautiful, intriguing patterns of ice bubbles frozen into those very ruts.  What before was unsightly has now been rendered attractive and photo-worthy.  The result is this “ice mural”, an image which I can imagine painted into the side of a building in some city somewhere.  The abstractions suggest a landscape with figures — but I will leave interpretations to readers.  What do you see in this image?

Ice Mural