Both Sides Now

There’s just something about reflections on water that totally intrigues me.  This was taken last Friday when the blue sky and big, white clouds were floating overhead…

Bubble Bath

Caught some bubbles making their way across the surface of a pond today.  This one just begged to be on display.

The Mask

Once again, I’m caught up in the fun of taking an image of water running through a creek and totally blowing it into something else entirely.  This time I took this photo:

 

And ran it through Harry’s Filters (free download…you have this, right?) to get this:

 

And then took just the upper left hand corner and cut the rest away. 

 

Can you see why I call the final image “The Mask?”

(There you go, Ankush…this time I showed the “before” images, too!)

A Duck’s Life

Although I’ve been witness to some real terrorizing going down around the duck pond, for the most part…life is pretty serene. 

Dropped

I was arranging some of the spring’s first daffodils in a vase today when I noticed a few drops of water had escaped. 

I loved the abstractness of the shot and knew it had black and white conversion written all over it.  If you look closely in the big drop that’s my kitchen window being reflected in it’s lines and curves.

Better Than Prozac

There’s just something about watching the sun go down over a lake full of water that fills my heart to overflowing. 

I am so blessed…

Best Sunset 2007

I’m furiously working away on a black and white series that I’m submitting to my church for their Holy Week “Walk to the Cross” so there’s no time to shoot, edit or print anything else.  I realized as I was thumbing through some old images that I don’t think I ever showed you my favorite sunset of the past year.  It happened in November and was a series of changing tones, colors and moods all rolled into one dazzling night.  Here are a few of my favorites from that night…

And You See???

I love creating abstracts with my photos.  Now that I have these new lenses, I doubt I ever look at the surface of a lake the same way again.  I’m always flabberghasted at what I see floating around on the surface…and I let my mind just wander through the image as I try to see things in a new and different way. 

Here’s my new favorite…I caught it last night right before the sun started to set.  I did a little “channel mixing” in Photoshop (just to see what it would do) and ended up falling in love with the teal color I created with the CMYK sliders.  

Come Sweet Spring

Last weekend, we finally had a short thaw.  The sun came out and everything.  The snow (mostly) melted and, for a brief day or two, water ran from the downspout of my home.  Silly me…I went and got my hopes up.

Three days into the new week and it’s already snowed and iced.  Today’s high will be somewhere between 3+ and 7- degrees F.  I am ever grateful that I have a home with heat and a bed with covers.  It is wicked cold outside and I am fully aware that many who live near me are not as lucky or as blessed as I am. 

And so I pray for spring…for weather that will be more forgiving and for plants that will turn this white layer of frost to a vibrant springtime green.  I pray for warmer weather, for shelter for those that have none, and for God’s hands upon this land of ours.  Bring spring, Father. 

Bring spring.

A Midwinter Night’s Dream

I must be in a really “reflective” mood right now.  I seem to always end up at the water’s edge, right as the sun is setting, tree branches bouncing around on the surface of the water, with an image looking like something out of a movie.

And I keep wondering…haven’t I seen this all before in a dream?