Seattle, Ivy (wallpaper)
Seattle, Ivy, 2010-12-23
Ravenna, Light Pole (wallpaper)
Ravenna, light pole, 2010-12-23
Ravenna, Tree Ivy (wallpaper)
Ravenna, tree, ivy, 2010-12-23
Ravenna, Tree Nail (wallpaper)
Ravenna, tree nail, 2010-12-23
Ravenna, Trail Marker
Ravenna, Trail Marker 2010-12-23
Ravenna, Fir (wallpaper)
Ravenna, Fir 2010-12-23
Foundation Bolt, 2010-01-26
So after listening to that podcast about digital color, I’m not so concerned (in fact, I can happily prefer) to use somewhat over-exposed images. It’s much easier to darken and add contrast than it is to safely reduce contrast. Unless you actually blur the picture and add more artificially gradated pixels, you cannot add color resolution to an image. So you can guess what this picture used to look like when I started.
Whatever a foundation bolt does out in the middle of a parking lot–this one does its job quite well.
Foundation Bolt, 2010-01-26
Moon, 2010-03-04
I’m impressed that even though I was so lazy as to not hang a sandbag from my tripod, it was as sharp as it is.
Moon, 2010-03-04
Bark, Bellingham, 2010-01-31
This was a rainy weekend walk, where again I risked my camera. I wasn’t too worried, it’s a pretty tuff camera and it’s not too fragile a lens. Anyhow, it was the 28MM F5 Vivitar tank. It’s actually quite good at close ups. Almost all the pictures I’ve uploaded have been hand held at 100 ISO.
Bark, Bellingham, 2010-01-31
Shack, Aldrich Rd, 2010-02-03
I like taking pictures of … neglect. I don’t like the word neglect, so much, but rather the character a structure expresses after being abandoned to the elements. There’s another shack out on Aldrich Rd that I’ve been meaning to photograph, too.
Shack, Aldrich Rd, 2010-02-03
Mt Baker from Aldrich Rd (Panorama) 2010-02-19
Here’s an attempt at making a very wide desktop background: 2560×1024. There are obviously better photos I could have chosen, but this one was recent. I think I need to figure out how to turn my bicycle into a tripod. I could certainly lose the shake, even on a 28mm lens.
Mt. Baker from Aldrich Rd, 2010-02-19
Feel free to tease me about this photo. You can even do that on twitter now: @jed_reynolds or @bitratchet.
Tree Sign, Ravenna Park, 2010-02-15
I’ve walked by this sign in Ravenna park for years. I’m guessing it used to be a yield sign. Now it’s a macabre symbol that reminds me much of the art I produced in middle school.
Tree Sign, Ravenna Park, 2010-02-15
Purple Blossoms, Bellingham, 2010-01-18
I was surfing around looking at campsites tonight. Suggestions appreciated. If this February is a sign of what May will be like, I’m all for it. Consider how vivid these blossoms were in January. Any places you like to camp? Please share.
Purple Blossoms, Bellingham, 2010-01-18
This was a brief experiment tonight doing a “dissolve filter” and a mask. The unfocused background was kinda distracting because it was a lot of lens-circles. I blurred out the whole layer and masked the foreground out of it, dissolved it in and threw a “soft light” to rebuild the color on the blossoms. If you’d like a print of this, please ask.
Water Lid, 2010-01-26
This banal piece of rugged hardware has a very strong design. This is an experiment to bring out that bold design.
Water Lid, 2010-01-26
If you’d like a bigger file to print out, please ask.
Stones, Squalicum Beach, 2009-01-26
It was cold and rainy. However, I needed to talk a walk. I recall that this walk I had the back of my camera dripping wet from the fog condensing onto my beard. My gloves were soaked, and my jacket sleeves were starting to soak thru into my shirt. But I had my new camera! That made it great!
Stones, Squalicum Beach, 2009-01-26
Steam Locomotive, Perris, California, 2008
This was a fun trip, but it was hot and all my photos from there were immensely bright and contrasty. I felt like I spent a small eternity comparing the quality of this photo to other photos of locomotive wheels where the grays were smooth and rich … and it dawned on me that I took a photo of a dirty old locomotive. It hadn’t been painted in decades. There was no lipstick I could put on this iron pig…so I rolled in the grit and went for the aged effect!
Steam Locomotive, Perris, California, 2008
Sweat Pea, Seattle, 2009-07-25
I love the Gimp. Tonight’s experiment was producing good looking newsprint, and using layer masks. I think I’m getting this layer mask technique.
Sweat Pea, Seattle, 2009-07-25
If you’d like to get a print of this, please let me know, I’d love to hear from you.
