White Dogwood Berries......

Working on this little image was fun to pass an hour or so tonight. When I made the transition from colour to Black & White, it was no contest. The Black & White variant won hands down. Using the poster edges filter in CS5 enhanced the detail and contrast, and also gave it a bit of a graphic look as well.....hope it is enjoyable for you too. Cheers! 

 

Trinity, NFLD Scene.....

The last time I visited "HOME" was back in 2015, and I spent a good deal of my vacation on the Avalon. It was solace for the soul to say the least. When we arrived in Trinity, the first scene I saw when I stepped out of the car was this one. I immediately fired off a shot, as I knew I liked what I saw, but did not spend much time thinking about it. Tonight, I converted it from colour to Black & White, and I think I prefer this variant best. Even though I was raised in a city, and lived most of my life in mainland cities, I have always, to this day, been a bayman at heart. For me, this image is full of texture, but then, no surprise, Newfoundland is full of textures on so many levels that I could go on for an hour or more with that train of thought. But I will spare you... anyway, this image makes me feel like the Newfoundland that I grew up knowing, is still there. Hopefully it will be for a while longer, and hopefully I will make it back at least one more time.....Cheers! 
 

The Clipping....

Last week, I was pruning and clipping the badly overgrown plants in our back yard, and this rose was the only one on the tip of a "sucker" branch on one of our climbing rose bushes. So I clipped it off, and stuck it in a little vase that was sitting empty on the table in my quiet space. It is my retreat from the world right now. A few months back, I had purchased a 85mm, f1.4 lens that was originally designed to be used with film cameras. From online reviews I had read, it was touted as being able to hold its own on a more modern DSLR camera. It was designed to be a portrait lens, and is all about the bokeh, especially when it is used wide open at f1.4 aperture. So I put it on my SONY a900 camera, and gave it a go with the aperture wide open. This is the resulting image, and I think it lived up to its reputation. This image is just a very simple little snippet of a place I enjoy when it is not too scorching hot or humid. There has been a lot of those days this Summer, but it is close to the arrival of the Autumn season now, and that should bring much more bearable temperatures before the gnarly Winter months arrive....Cheers!.
 

Somewhere Near Trinity, NFLD.....repost

This little image was posted sometime around last December, 2020, as a Black & White, which I liked very much. Tonight for whatever reason, I got to playing with it again. This time I thought I would try Corel Painter software, and this is the resulting image. It is supposed to somewhat resemble a coloured pencil drawing of the original photo. Truth be told, I am not very proficient with this software yet, and there is definitely a learning curve to it. It is a bit difficult for me to wrap my mind, or what's left of it, around, and accept the fact that it is no longer a photograph, and is now something quite different. The colours are different, and the jury is out on if it somehow enhances the image or not.....but it is fun to experiment, and to get a few hours relief from all of the so called Federal Election stuff online that we must endure for another week at least....good Lord, I'd give anything to find myself trudging along the dirt road in this image right about now....Cheers!