This shot is taken in downtown Oakland looking down 12th street toward the covnention center. One edge of the frame is the reflection of the Oakland Tribune tower.
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays! I am working on my Christmas card this year. I am having trouble finding inspiration. I bought a winter bouquet from Trader Joes and tried it arrange it in the Ikebana style. I fiddled the scan for the white background and added grunge with an etch tone filter.
Cyclamen #2
Another of the potted cyclamen at the Oakland City Center. Tonite was a late nite. I visited the Focus Gallery at Polk and Union. They had an abstract show of photography by four members. I have not done much abstract work so my goal was a better appreciation of abstracts. Art Levit’s work is beautiful and elegant even though his subjects are trash, graffiti, rust, etc. Eric Larson had intriguing idea for a collection that I will call “Commuter Art”. He shoots while driving his car and gets very interesting results. Of course, I tried while driving home. My result is a mishmash of squiggles (but fun).
Cyclamen
This is a heavy crop of a planter at the Oakland City Center. I liked it better in B&W to that all the texture is more visible without the extremely bright pink and reds of the blooms.
Tis the Season
Today at lunch at the Oakland City Center, this choir sang like angels. It was a nice surprise to walk around the corner and find the performance. This image has been heavily fiddled.
Iris (Photo Friday – Experimental)
This is one taken from the Berkeley Botanical Gardens. I did not like the straight up image because not enough emphasis was one the iris. So, had heard about the wonders of LAB color mode and decided to expriment. Found that the ‘b’ channel had good contrast between the foreground and background. Did various blending using the ‘b’ channel and the original color image for this final result.
Palm Fronds
This is one of the few infrareds that I took while visiting Treasure Island. I liked how the palm fronds looked like feathers. This infrared image is very different light than most of my other infrared images. This is actually golden light which is much harsher and more directional than my infrared images from Sunol.
Chrysanthemum
Since I have been digging in the archives lately and finding hidden goodies, here is a picture taken at the hair salon.
Whoooosh!
The view looking down Columbus Avenue. I think the streaming lights were caused by a Muni bus going by. After a few weeks of reflection on this class, I think that I learned a lot. I tried many new types of shots that I would have never considered before. Now, I would like to try more night photography.
Pink
Another from the nite photo class. After a few weeks, I do not even remember where or what this was. This one reminds me of my Granny because this shade of pink is her favorite color.
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