New! All new! Call now and get spurs for your Converse shoes! Only $39.99 for solid silver spurs on your Converse!!! Woooo… :) Anyway, this pic is from a walk I had with Cobalt where we saw a fence that had these spur-like things on it! I had Cobalt stand on the wire to make it look like his shoe had a spur on it. Neat I think! :)
Category: Black and White Photograph
Black and White: Looking through Rose Tinted Glasses
I like this picture. It is literally looking halfway through Cobalt’s sunglasses! I was standing behind him while he was looking at something and I noticed how fun it was that I could sort of see through his sunglasses. I wondered what it would look like in picture form and luckily I had my DSLR on me! So here we go. I think it looks neat. I like the stuff that is doubled because it is at the edge of the glasses. I also like the clouds through the glasses. Fancy… Maybe I will play around with that more to try to get something crazy in the glasses. Ooooo…
Black and white: Dry
Also from my walk with Cobalt last weekend (see! I took some landscape pictures and I used my old(er) zoom lens!). I really like this picture. I think the trees and the clouds in the background are pretty ominous. I also like the pokey guys in the left hand corner of the picture, just peeking in to see if it’s safe.
Black and White Cell Phone Picture: Science Rules!
So I combined two of my blog rules today to bring you Bill Nye! Last night, we got to go see Bill Nye the Science Guy at CU Boulder. It was so exciting. I loved his show when I was a kid. Bill Nye and my parents were totally my heros… :) Anyway, his talk was awesome and inspiring (also very funny)! He chose to talk a lot about climate change and what we can do about it. I found his topic choice especially interesting because I just went to another talk by David Goldstein, who works for the National Resources Defense Council, and he chose to use climate change as an example for how politics/the public view science and scientists. My friend Paul summed up his talk pretty nicely if you’re interested. I thought that Bill Nye’s talk was very appropriate and helpful in explaining climate change in a way that understandable to anyone.
ANYWAY… We weren’t allowed to bring cameras into Bill Nye’s talk… so I was left with the cell phone camera. I took this picture of the program before the talk for you guys to see. :)
Black and White: And suddenly it gets very flat…
One of my favorite things about Boulder is how it seems to exist in a state of transition. On the one side, it has these gorgeous mountains/giant flatirons that erupt out of the earth and on the other side, it is just SO FLAT. It is just so weird to be hiking up in the hills and look down at all the flatness as far as the eye can see. I come from the land of rolling Californian hills so this strange combination never ceases to interest me…
Black and White: Icy Reflections
This was another picture I took this weekend with photographer’s block weighing heavily on my brain. I got the idea to shoot this picture in black and white from this article, which I mentioned yesterday as well. In the article, she suggests taking black and white pictures so as to draw the viewer’s attention to something else besides the colors in the picture. I talked a little bit about my feelings on black and white photography before in my picture of the sideways gate. I think that shooting in black and white makes you think harder about the composition of the photograph and what you really want as the most important part of the picture. All that thinking and crafting is definitely good for jolting your creativity, especially when you have a half frozen creek in front of you to photograph. For this picture, I decided I would use black and white to try to draw people’s attention to the water, with its lazy ripples, as it flows through the iciness of the creek.
Black and White: Waiting for the Elevator
When I post black and white pictures on here, I like them to be pictures that I have actually taken with the black and white setting on my camera. Sometimes I cheat and use Photoshop to turn one of my color photos to a black and white photo but usually I am pretty good. This picture is another from my photoshoot with Janet and Meghana last weekend and I actually did shoot it in black and white. I decided to try switching between black and white and color once we got to more of an urban setting just to see what I could get. Plus, I definitely need more practice shooting in black and white anyway so it gave me a good excuse. Now that I am looking at this picture, I’m sad that I didn’t have them actually press the button on the elevator and at least pretend to ride it. Oh well… more ideas for future photoshoots…
Black and White: Curious cat
As I was going through my pictures to figure out what I wanted to post for today, I came across this picture of my cat Patti, Smokey’s sister. I love it. I love how you totally don’t even need color to know what a beautiful cat Patti is. I also love the way she is looking up (and not at me) in this picture so you can really see her whiskers and her profile. I also love the way her ears are tilted back just a little bit as if she is trying to figure out what she wants to do with whatever she is looking at. I am pretty sure that I was snapping my fingers (that’s what she’s looking at) and she was trying to decide whether it was worth it to expend the energy to jump up to get petted (there’s a car just out of sight on the left) or if she should just stay on the ground and make me bend down to her level and pet her there… You can probably guess what happened next… She decided that she was too good to jump up to my level and I had to kneel down and pet her on hers… Ohhhhh cats… ;)
Black and White: Waiting out the Rain
I thought I would do another self portrait for today. Like Sunday’s picture, I also took this one with the DSLR on manual focus. This picture comes from when Cobalt and I were visiting Trinidad Lake in Southern Colorado (like you can almost see New Mexico across the lake). We brought our fake glasses, my guitar, and his ukulele to the beach of the lake and tried to take some pictures that looked like indie rock band album covers (hence the black and white… and the glasses…). Ha! At one point, it started raining and we didn’t want our instruments or my camera to get wet so we hid in the car. While in the car, I took this picture.
Black and White: Time for a Tea Party?
Ooooo I love this pic. I love it when I am going about my day and something pops up already perfectly composed for me to take its picture. That’s how I felt about this shot. Basically, I’ve been going for little runs/walks around my neighborhood and every time I passed this sight (it’s what it looks like, benches under a tree in the middle of an abandoned horse pasture), I was so enchanted by it. I kept picturing one of those paintings you see of fairies having a tea party under a tree in the middle of some valley. Okay, maybe I am reading too much young adult fiction but that’s what I thought of every time. So one day after my run, I got the DSLR and walked back down there to try to capture the image I saw in my head. It was a fun exercise to try to get everything to match what I had envisioned. Do you see it? If not, what do you see? :-/
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