What a difference a day makes. Yesterday was a bad day photographically, including a visit by the local police, again. But Today, WOW. I headed over to a small community for their annual fall festival to shoot some “street”; Lots of folks and lots of harsh mid day lighting. In 4 hours I made nearly 200 captures, about half of them the lighting was too harsh. Out of the remaining images about 25 were not all that bad. And I got 5 or 6 that are really good, at least for this old man. In short I felt sort of like this:
OK, OK my “friends” are saying “Wrong end of the horse,” but that is not the self portrait. Here is the self portrait and it should prove to all my friends that I am not a horse’s pa-toot.
So there y'all, have a nice day.
THE Elmo
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Note to Froggy: It is a large, bright orange, squarish, irregularly shaped object in the upper left not a small, round, bright orange object in the lower right. This makes for a much better composition plus it has a spectacularly fabulous point of interest in the lower left sweet spot.
After an absence from doing photography on a regular basis I decided to do a-picture-a-day-for-a-year project. As a direction I am attempting to use modern images where possible to relate times in my photographic past. As I am no longer a spring chicken, I can get philosophical some times. As a Christian I often see God possibly using me and my photography to send short messages. I hope you enjoy these images as much as I have enjoyed making them around Monroe, NC. TheElmo
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
90: Street Photography ++ Self Portrait
Labels:
Cars and trucks,
Festivals,
Horses,
Self Portrait,
Street Photography
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Whoa! Love the self portrait in the hot rod.
ReplyDeleteThis is definately one of my favorites. You should have named it ZZ Top. I converted it to B&W in PS but I couldn't make it pop as it does in color. You seem more prominent in the B&W version which I like but the overall shot isn't as good.
I want this in an 8x10. The size posted is less than 4x3.
Very nice - can't figure out where the tripod is located...
No tripod. Camera is hand held at arms length below (Too lazy to get down to aim shot). Reflection was an accident.
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