248: Energy

Over the years I have been involved in several discussions about how power poles and lines destroy many photo opportunities. In this time of high energy cost and generating plant disasters it seemed appropriate to address the issue of photographing power poles and lines.

POWER

In this I see both man made power and God's power. Which is better?

241: New Blossoms, Old Barn

Well the winter dulls are starting to fade away and the beauty of spring is coming.

New Blossoms Old Barn

231: Sunset Unobstructed

Sunset Unobstructed

I know it needs something in the foreground to set it off, but is was beautiful all by itself. If this image was only half a nice as the real thing.

182: Speed Zone

As I look out my window and see vehicles flying by. I think they might need to read the sign.

Street In The Snow

On second thought, are they trying to take the fun out of going downhill in the snow??

69: Landscape -- Corn Harvest

At Evening Time and the Corn is in the Barn

52: Landsapes

Well it has been a while since I wandered away from my story, so I now wander back to it. I finally got the chance to move out of the East Texas Pine trees to the beach, at least close to the beach. I stayed in East Texas and was right next to the Louisiana border. From that location it was easy to slip off to the beach for lovely sunrise and sunset pictures. That is whenever the sun rose or set due South.
While I was on the beach, I learned that driftwood if photographed using the right technique could be made to look like a rugged mountain. From that I began trying to make things look like something else.

The Smokey Mountains in Texas.

Here is such a case. I took a typical range cattle scene, as might be found in Texas, framed it with a few bales of hay. I then threw the distant tree line way out of focus, so it might represent distant mountains. The image was taken looking into the sun causing flair which added the hazy look to the distant objects. See how good I am! Not really it just worked out that way, right here in the Piedmont of North Carolina

49: Landscape

I have for years wanted to take one of them (I speak RedNeck) Birch (I think) tree pictures where the white shinny trunks stand out against a black ground. Well this is as close as I am going to get in the next few days.

Into the Darkness

ADDITION:
I have not spent much time on the project. Basically I have made one image each day. Today I came across the image above, which was what I was thinking about. But, I did take a couple of others. I posted the one above because it was what I was thinking when I went out. Something kept bothering me so I came back to post this one:

Standing at the Entrance to the Dimly Lighted Hallway

38: Landscape -- Structures

Late today a friend called to remind me to watch “Postcards from Nebraska” on TV. When it was over I headed out to shoot an image I had envisioned for today. On the way I got to thinking about one segment of the TV show. The segment dealt with structures that symbolize the area. In Nebraska it was grain silos. The question came to mind what structure represents this area?

Chicken /Turkey Houses In A Corn Field

24: Pictoral Photography

Continuing the tale, my portrait endeavors were not very successful. My biggest issue was giving posing directions. If I had a candid type of portrait I did fairly well, but to be blunt I did not like taking portraits. I found myself leaning toward landscape type photography, but when you live in flat lands covered by towering pine trees there is not much landscape to photograph. So I went toward mini-landscapes or as it was called back then, pictorial photography.

The Path

This image tells a story to those who know. This years old, well worn path leads to the railroad tracks (the bright area in background). Following the path to the other side of the tracks leads one to one of the homeless camps in our area. In this case the camp where Maggie lives.