Day Twenty Three - Light Pole Bolt

I know that I am some times fascinated by the simplist things, but there is a lot going on with these nuts, bolts, and washers. The colors that make up rust, the textures, the patterns, the play of light and shadows, and oh so much more.

Quote of the Day: "Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities." - Dorothea Lange

Twenty Two - Lambs Ear

Was going out to find something to photograph, and found this in my own backyard.

Quote of the Day: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

Day Twenty one - Fountain of Leaves

Found these leaves in a fountain in the court yard on the North side of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard at 2374 Grant Ave, Ogden UT.

Quote of the Day: "You learn to see by practice. It's just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it." - Eliot Porter

Day Twenty - Reflective Eyes

While looking around the South side of Lindquist Field Monday I spotted a face being reflected in a window on the West side of a building at 218 24th Street, so today decided to see if I could get a photo I liked from the reflection.


Found these leaves on the wall of the parking garage on the North side of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard court yard at 2374 Grant Ave, Ogden UT.

Quote of the Day: "The two most engaging powers of [a photographer] are to make new things familiar and familiar things new." - W. Thackeray

Day Nineteen - Rainy Day Tuesday

There is something fascinating about finding droplets of rain on some object.

Quote of the Day: "It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. It is a gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment." - Bill Brandt - "Camera in London", The Focus Press, London 1948, p. 14

Day Eighteen - Blue Dumpster

Today drove around the Lindquist Field, the home of the Ogden Raptors, at 2330 Lincoln Ave, Ogden Utah. In an alley on the South side of the field, I spotted a small rusty blue dumpster. I decided I could get a great abstraction photo by just photographing one of the lift points on the dumpster.

Quote of the Day: "When shooting industrial subjects and still lifes, it is a matter of finding the beauty in ordinary things, or outright creating beauty through careful juxtapositon, use of shadow, and finding interesting shapes and lines within something very ordinary." - George Barr - From: "Take Your Photography to the Next Level"

Day Seventeen - McKay-Dee Hospital Fall Color

Last Wensday went to an Ostomy Support Group meeting at the McKay-Dee Hospital Center at 4401 Harrison Blvd, Ogden UT, I noticed there was a lot of beautiful color. So I decide I better get over there today to get the color before it faded away or fell to the ground.

Quote of the day: 'Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns' - George Eliot

Day Sixteen - Gettin' My Daily

I got the tree leaves and flower at Evergreen Memorial Gardens, at 100 Monroe Blvd. Ogden, UT. I never know what I'm going to find there. On the East side there is a ditch that has a lot of thing to photograph around it. The architectural detail I found on Adam Ave., between 27th and 28th street. I know it looks pretty rough, but really like the texture, and the colors.

Day Fifteen - Fall Color Around Town

When I first started to do photograph, I read somewhere that the novice tried for grand vistas in there search for fall color, but the person who wrote the article suggested that you get up close and personal with the color your trying to photograph.

My online teacher Carol Leigh (see sidebar for links) in one of her classes taught us that if we moved just inches around the object we were photographing we could change the color of the background.

Both of these ideas I think have helped me get the kind of fall color that I'm after.

Lisl Dennis in her book, The Traveler's Eye", she quotes photojournalist Robert Capa who said "If your photographs aren't strong enough, you're not close enough". Lisl said, "The farther in I moved, the more control I had over the subject". Lisl said, Capa's statement further influenced her to "optical intimacy with her subject. "Optical intimacy", is one of the thing I feel that I am after in the items I photograph, and didn't know how to express it until Lisl put it into words.

The last photo in the group is my favorite photo, it is fun when you can get the background to match perfect with what you are trying to photograph.

Quote of the Day: 'Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.' - Albert Camus

Day Fourteen - Random Finds

As I left the house to go photograph Victoria Ridge Retirement Apartments at 1024 Childs Ave, Ogden UT, (I spotted this a while back and was going to use it as my photo of the day, I liked the flag reflection), the yellow flower was staring at me, so I photographed that.

Then while driving to the apartments I noticed I could see the motorcyclist face in his sideview mirror as he rode in the left lane. I lucked out, there was at stop light we both stoped out, and I had my 100 to 400mm lens on my camera out, so I took a photo of the motorcyclist through my windshild, I didn't know if it was going to work or not. I didn't notice the cigarette in his mouth until I got home.

The reason I wanted to photograph the apartment building was I like triangles, squares, circles, textures,and the reflection of the flag in the window.

I photographed the grass for the texture and the colors. and I thought the background was working pretty good.

Day Thirteen - Our Little Angel & Learning to See More

I took a class from Carol Leigh (see sidebar for link) called "Parts is Parts", which helped me to slow down and to start to look more at what I photograph. You see I use Image stabilizer lenses, so I rarely use a tripod, and I got into the habit of photographing something fast, then I was ready to move on to the next item to photograph, without trying to see if there was more to photograph of the object. Her "Parts is Parts" class really slowed me down.

September the 9th she sent what she calls, "60-Second Photo Lesson from Carol Leigh" the title of the lesson was "20 Photos from One Location Can you Do It?". Todays photos are my answer to her question. This exercise really helps you to slow down and really look at the object you are photographing.

Day Twelve - More Birds & Fall Color

To me there can never be too many bird photos, nor fall color photos.