From the Misc Folders
So far I’ve only been posting photos from single, high-volume events, such as hikes or sporting games. These are usually a couple of weeks apart. However, my camera doesn’t sit around in the meanwhile gathering dust. I’m a firm believer in an adage from a photo-enthusiast colleague at work: “If you’re afraid to take the camera everywhere you go, you paid too much for it.” So when I’m not driving the carpool, I have the camera out. When I’m walking around a park or going to the city, I have the camera out. And whenever I travel anywhere out of town, even if I don’t think I’m going to use it, I bring the camera along.
What results is photographs taken spur-of-the-moment, in those times (and there are many) where I used to say “damn I wish I had a camera right now…” Often, these come out pretty badly, either due to my present lack of expert skill in choosing the right settings, or sometimes because the situation really isn’t as good looking in a camera as I thought. But more and more often, there appear a few that make me say, “neat!” They tend to be more “artistic” in the sense that I usually play with the environment to get the effect I want, as opposed to attempting to capture a pre-existing moment in a certain way.
Here are three of those neato shots, taken at my parents new house in El Dorado Hills.
China in the Cupboard. A glass plate with some backlighting and intentional underexposure.
Stained-Glass Cross.
Gateway to the Night. This one was fun. A seven second exposure through the shaped glass pane on the front door gave this oddly distorted, color-washed peek through the main courtyard.
