Variations on Local Themes

A grand collapse of foliage,

a lens that distorts.

Old willows frame

paths to obscurity.

 

 

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Photographs made at Juanita Bay Park in Kirkland, Washington with a Lensbaby Composer Pro and processed in Lightroom (a few changes made in Color Efex Pro). For some photographs, in-camera filters such as Dramatic Tone, Grainy Film & Soft Focus (on an Olympus OM D1 camera) were used.

The trees are mainly willows, the ferns are Lady ferns (Athrium felix-femina). The single leaf on the ground that’s turning color as if it were a map is from a Cottonwood tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


46 comments

    • Well, I hope it seems otherworldly in a good way. 😉
      Thanks for mentioning the intro. After the last few posts where I wrote a lot, I was so ready to keep it simple!!!!
      Hope to see you all soon!

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    • I’m glad, Denise…like I was saying to Gunta above, changing it up is refreshing sometimes. And you can’t predict how the lensbaby and the in-camera filter shots are going to look as well as you can predict how a “normal” lens shot will turn out. That keeps the photography looser.

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  1. The first picture gets to me big time, and I’m also struck by the tree with two, big diverging trunks – and I must get to use Color Efex Pro more, LR is making me far too lazy in that respect – although LR very, very seldom supplants SEP2 for mono work.

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    • The first one is what I think of as your kind of look -glad you like it. I’m forgetting right now but I think it was done with an in-camera filter effect. Those can be fun to experiment with. I don’t think I did much in color efex this time. Much of the intense contrast (latter photos) was also from an in-camera filter. That being said, it seems there’s always more to discover in color efex; I have hardly scratched the surface.

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    • Yes, we’re in NYC now… battling traffic, seeing friends and family and reliving favorite sights and foods, yum! I know the blurred effect may not be your thing but hope you enjoyed it for a change.
      So far here it seems most of what I’m photographing is on the fly. Friday I get together with Patti Kuche of Nylon Daze – I think you know her?

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      • I’m sure you meeting with Patti was great. I’d so like to be able to meet all my American friends but I think I’d have to hire a RV and spend a year criss-crossing the country. Not something I can do right now but who knows.. a lottery win perhaps? 🙂

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      • It was fun seeing Patti again – nice weather, we sat outside in lower Manhattan and talked….a lottery win sounds good, and I bet you could persuade some of your US friends to gather together, to save you a few miles…why not?

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    • The first – I’m surprised! The 11th kind of surprised me, because I used an in camera filet that exaggerates the tones, so I didn’t foresee it looking like that but I liked it, so I’m glad you did, too. 🙂

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  2. The boardwalk looks familiar. Is that where you photographed the old man, or spent some time during the eclipse? Boardwalks are boardwalks, I suppose, but you seem to have a number of very nice ones around. The pastel orange and green leaves are lovely. They remind me of sherbet.

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    • Yes, you’re right in both cases! Sorry for the late reply. That park is nearby and reliable so i go there a lot. Good birding there, too. People in the Pacific Northwest tend to have a huge respect for the outdoors, which seems to extend to taking care with whatever is built there, in parks anyway. Sherbet – that’s a great association!

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    • They’re fun to play with – I was just using it again this morning, for the fall leaves. The other “odd” lens I have is an old Super-Takumar 50mm f1.8. It’ has a slight golden cast due to radioactive coatings, but I like that. It’s really hard to focus, maybe because of the adaptive mount – same problem with the lens baby, that’s what I get for having a micro 4/3! But both lenses are a nice way to see differently, which is always useful. Thanks for your comments Otto!

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