The Window IV :: Almost a Still Life in Available Light

 I must admit I love the dappled light coming though the window in the late afternoon

Can you find the Kookaburra?

Taken on the Jells Park Photowalk :: Seeing as the Camera Sees.

This is a good example of my new approach to handling a (big) batches of photos without wasting time and waiting for (slow) software. (ie bringing the fun back into photography). Taken from the camera card with Photo Mechanic (180 images, 90 pairs of jpeg+raw), adding metadata, select and rating the best (under 3 minutes) then pumping 40 raw files out to photolemur 3.0 to see what is possible (another 2 minutes for that to happen, time to make an espresso) Then I sat down (5 minutes later) and choose half a dozen photos to work on.  All I had to do with this one was crop the photolemur output. Voilà.

Then I used Photo Mechanic Upload tools to send this cropped image to both flickr and twitter (in less than 2 additional minutes)

For a couple of photos I will go back and take them into On1 Photo RAW and three sets of 5 images each I will take into AuroraHDR 2019. Even though I’m not under any time constraint taking the chore aspect out of culling ranking and caring for my photos before I can even start the fun of enhancing things, give to time to reflect and hopefully lift my creativity

Natural Rock Art

Kimberley sandstone tone & texture

First Endless Summer Art Work

Unfortunately its really overcast, not a perfect start to an endless summer, “Such is life”.

However it did give me the opportunity to experiment on a small canvas for #PatternsOfNature Series

Network Aquatic : Acrylic on Canvas 15 by 15cm (Jan 2017)

PhotoProject :: Weaving a Natural Tapestry

A great thing to do with natural textures is use them to bring added interest to photos particularly the backgrounds. Further I have been encouraged by using my own sketches as filters for dreamscope, So today I am trying out a close up photo of lichen as my template for the filter. I am actually delighted, it brings a natural tapestry feel to my simple bird photos taken meters away from where I photographed the lichen. I’m letting Nature make some of her own marks on my work.

The Patterns of Life

http://myscratchings.tumblr.com/post/146787368215/thinking-about-patterns-in-nature

The Patterns in nature can be interpreted in many ways they can be represented by intricate lines or juxtaposition of positive and negative shape.

There is a tension between the intricate and busy and the calm rhythmic flow. We see this tension as beauty and art.

PhotoFriday :: Patterns

Tide & Time Patterns in the Sand

For PhotoFriday‘s topic Patterns

Taking the time to really look

There is a slight optical trick here, go to flickr and make this image full screen then look at it from close up. Your eye will be fascinated with the pattern and texture of the bark, and that will dominate what you see, Then stand and move back a few place and you will start to see the beach where this tree grows.

Working on the inspiration of Fred William's paintings of the essence of the Australian Landscape.

New Zealand Motif

  

PhotoFriday :: Activity

The Great Mollusc Stampede on the mudflats at low tide,
ac·tiv·i·ty Noun The condition in which things are happening or being done. Busy or vigorous action or movement.
For PhotoFriday‘s topic Activity

PhotoFriday :: Sand Patterns

Sand Patterns 1, originally uploaded by imageo.

Ripple marks at low tide

For PhotoFriday‘s topic Pattern

Patterns

Patterns

Do you know what this pattern is?

Spot the birds

Can you spot the two masked lapwing plovers (they are in flight)?

Sherbrooke forest space man

Patterns in Nature

PhotoProject :: Urban Abstract

Urban Abstract, originally uploaded by imageo.

Taken om my Android cameraphone using the HDRCamera app. This was directly uploaded to flickr from my phone and then blogged from flickr.

There are pictures waiting to be taken everywhere. Having a camera in your phone is a great way to start capturing more of them

Patterns

PhotoFriday :: Flaming Sharp Focus

This set of amazing ripple patterns in the shallows behind a sand bar reminds me of flames, frozen in time in their best and most intricate detail.

Normally photographing a very monochrome and evenly lit subjects, like a pattern in beach sand is very difficult to focus, even manually, and would normally send my camera’s autofocus tracking back and forth in a rather futile effort to find a sharp image. Being winter the sun was low enough to throw a shadow and it was just a case moving around  to get the direction that had the shadows maximised and darkest. Thus giving some good contrast in the area on which I was focusing.

For PhotoFriday‘s Topic Sharp Focus

Patterns of Nature

Faux faces