A String of Pearls.....

Her pearl necklace dangling from the neck of his old violin, surrounded by the very last roses clinging to the bush this Autumn day....they loved, and were loved. Nothing else needs to be said.......

November's Rose Redo......

 Last evening, I thought I would revisit the last bit of table top images, and see what else I could do with it. This was the final result. My Art Critic in residence hates it when I do this sort of thing. She is a purist when it comes to photography, and thinks I haven't done a decent image since I stopped shooting film, and processing Black & White in the darkroom. She probably has a point. Who am I to argue? Hope some will enjoy this one anyway. Cheers!

November's Rose.....

 The warm weather is in the process of leaving this evening, and the last few days provided a great opportunity to do the final bit of yard work, before the white stuff starts to happen. In the process of pruning the various bushes in the back yard, we decided to rescue this late bloomer, and give it a place on the kitchen table for a few days. Tonight, I got the urge to do a bit of still life photography, and set up my LED lighting, etc., and this is one of the images that came from this evenings session. Hope you enjoy a little. Cheers! 

A Summer Afternoon.....

Many times when I am playing around with my camera in hand, I grab shots that at the time mean absolutely nothing, but for some unknown reason, it seems like a good idea at the time. This is one of those images. While some parts of the country are dealing with blizzards or hurricanes this week, Southern Ontario is bathed in some of the nicest weather we have had all Summer....even though it is Autumn. It's just a nice temperature, no bugs, and no oppressing humidity like we had from June to September. So, it was a good time for a body to find a cosy corner and spend some time with a book. Books....how much longer will we have them available to us? Many a kid grew up reading book after book all Summer long during their holidays from school. But now, it seems that books are becoming a thing of the past, and more time is spent on various electronic devices and gadgets. The day is likely not too far off when we will not be able to access anything in print, and like photographs, all that information will be lost forever in "the cloud", or cyberspace. If for some reason you did not pay your monthly subscription to access "the cloud", then it sucks to be you. We used to store all of the old family photographs in several albums, or even an old suitcase or shoe box, which was tucked away in a special corner, until needed again when family history was the topic of the evening. But now, oh, all of those family pictures are somewhere on a disc, all mixed in with various other meaningless junk images, and can no longer be viewed because the discs have been corrupted with age, and no longer work, with the latest operating systems of the present computer being used. But sad as that all is, to me, the most sad thing of all is that very precious few even care, or give it a second thought.... Go read a book while you still can....Cheers!  

 

Daisies Magenta.....

 

So, it is November now, and I just turned the clocks back an hour, which usually is a sure sign of the coming of the colder Winter months. But I decided to try to hold it back a bit, and played around with a little bit of cropping, and converting this image to a magenta monotone one, just to see if I like the effect or not. Well, the jury is out on that for now, but maybe some folks might like the outcome, and others, well not so much. Believe it or not, we still have Roses and Clematis blooming in our back yard, and our neighbour was saying today that she still has Hollyhocks blooming. I am hoping to awaken one morning and see some snow on the flowers, as it usually makes for a nice image. It will be time soon to set out the bird feeders, or maybe I should say the squirrel feeders. They are almost impossible to battle against, and maybe it is time to get a couple of the squirrel proof feeders. Anyway, so much for babbling...Cheers everyone!