Father lesson

What to make of this B&W?
The canopy of the tree is really disturbing.
Will this kid ever see the blue sky
and the shinning stars?
Will the sun enlights his way?

A sad picture found in my photo vault.
Kasia did not like it.
Neither do I.
However I must listen to its message.
Life is suffering, my boy, life is hard.

Board No 1

Nice texture with a crazy violation of a compostional rule: "keep it together." The division between the boards split the photo in 2 and the eyes cannot pass easily from the left to the right side of the photo. What holds the whole? I think it is the resonance between the 2 knots in the right that by orientation and location give balance to the lock and handle in the left side.

Holiness

Yesterday I decided to start a photo project. I will compile photos and probably verses about the material world.  A photobook, "The four elements: Fire, Water, Heaven, Earth." A honor to the life beauty of life and the joy of being alive.

Each element will be presented in 8 or 10 photos.  Here is "My Holiness."

Cosmic struggle

Sometimes we just need to raise our eyes to the sky and our infinitud claims our spirit.

This photo was taken 5 years ago and its echo still sounds accross time.

Abstraction No 1

I like what math calls, "two-dimensional topological manifold."

What to say about this image but that it is a topoligical manifold. A color set of surfaces burned into reality, captured by a camera triggered by my right hand finger from the six floor of a hotel room on a foregone day.

I see my techniques still evolving toward an unknown direction.

What a bliss!

Cosmic spirits

From points to shadows

I go as a man enter

a tembling universe.

Two forming a single body.

Two parting from each other

as a late Autum wind

that leaves you early.

I hold you dear.

Cloud dance

Clouds, heavenly clouds.

why do my eyes reach for the skies?

Nothing new under the sun

but a simple man.

Why do we reach

with our earthly fingers?

Perhaps seeking for

our long gone parents,

long forgotten.

Twilight

I love sunrisings and sunsets; they touch me deeply and make make me feel alive.

This one was born in a Hamden stormy day. No much too fix but the standard Lab curve and minor sharpening. A simple image worthy for this Wednesday night.

Tear of the earth

Some images touch us in an odd way. I do not know what to make of this one. It does not have the harmony to hold the different elements together. It was a test on the use of some new photoshop tools. My wife saw it and found it beautiful. In her honor, here it is.

Misstepping

Sometimes we found the shot in unexpected places. Going up the steps, I was struck by the geometrical patterns that the windows, the rails and the steps. The patterns in the wall were also pleasing.

A tough image because of the all the noise due to the poor lighting. I blended the shadows and the hightlights. I wish I could have focused , however that will be another day. I cannot even remember where I took it. Probably in Europe.

Forever young

Thinking about this photo for a while. Why do I like it? An optical reflection from sign to man, from man to store and from store to sign. What else is needed in this photo to make us smile?

Winter light

This is the second time that I work on this image that was taken 5 years ago. I always thought that she waited for me. Well, here I am back.

This was taken with the Nikon d70. No much to say but that we have an abstract composition. If the stick has not been near the center, I believe that it would be more 2 dimensional. Its presence disturbs the image. Is it a tree growing up from the high rocks raising toward the sky or is it at eye level?

Hidden planes

Why do I like this image?

Maybe because of the happy intercepts of the planes.

Maybe because of its abstraction level.

Maybe because it reflects my present mind state.

Maybe because talks about the world state of affairs.

Interception II

Sometimes, we go to do it. Tonight I felt that I needed to work with my photos but I did not have much energy for it. Still I jumped in.

Here it is an image I found really boring at the start. I gave up; then I decided to just printed. In that process, photoshop forced me to see just a segment of the image. Then I saw it. A nice balance of light and darkness. Ying and Yang stepping in view. I am please.

Balcony light

A theme?

Lately I am proned to take sunset pictures. This one was taken one of this afternoon as the last winter storm gathered. It is not that I am into yellows and red. It is that I find it glorious.

Color adjustments done in RGB. No much to say, but that it is full of warm colors.

Bound

Maybe this is not such a good photo. I do not know. Tonight I want to play around and this image had waited for me for a long long time. Actually I took it years ago. I always passed it by.

It took me some minor cropping and the standard things: noise corrections, Lab color enhancement and L sharpening. However I am not sure that it is still right. I will keep it in mind and one day, maybe years from now, I will give it another try.

I love when the sun paints the sky on a late afternoon. The sun surprises me with shapes and colors that only wet-on-wet watercolors can do.

This image was taken the other day, just before the storm hit us. It feels me with joy.

I find interesting that the focus of attention bounces between the foreground and the background. The image was slightly manipulated to bring out shadow details in Lab space.

The stare

In a short vacation in Berlin, I walked into a small bookstore. Suddenly I saw her staring a me and holding my soul in her deep eyes.

The photo itself has no much corrections but a little LAB sharpening and minor JPEG noise correction: to bring the writing out. I was so please with her deep eyes that I left her untouched.

In particular, I like that this color photo could also be percieved as a B&W with some coloring. Also I like the compostional elements of multiple squares in several perspectives. A simple picture that I would not mind hanging on my walls. Lady luck.