Stretching a bit

[pecunium]

I've been doing a lot of photo work lately (honestly, it feels as if all I've been doing is the day to day of living, and photography).

On the way to Maia's, where I was going to clean the mice (she's on a two week set of trips to Ariz.), I saw a couple sets of flatcars on the rails. I like machines. I like trains. I had my camera with me. What could I do but a little bit of gentle trespass(the rights of way belong to the railroad, despite being open, they aren't public spaces).

I walked around the back end of the string (it was a good 1/3rd of a mile long, one end was enough), shot about a roll of film's worth of images. Since I've been shooting animals and flowers lately, and this was all angles and man-made, it was a different mindset.

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I like that one. It was one of the last I shot. Stepping back a bit and trying to show a little more of the human details which are lost in the close-up shots of trucks and wheels, and the like.

I also had a serendipitous mistake. I was doing some other work, for TKP and made a whole bunch of "styles" for my image editor, which meant things were crowded in that toolbar. Since I have a number of them which are no longer needed (they were special purpose, for clients), I purged them. A quirk of the application is that those styles were all applied to the image I was editing, which turned out like this:

Mistake


It's not anything I would have tried to make, but I like it (so I saved it as a style. We'll see how useful it is).

I've uploaded about 60 new pictures, as well as those. A lot of flowers, and a lot of B&W treatments of same. And squirrel is pretty cute.

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I like that second one. It's got all the detail of photography, but it almost looks painted.

[vanmojo.livejournal.com]

Hey TK...how are you? Breathing a little easier for a return to the rule of law? Or at least on the road to...

I like that first one. It seems simple at first, but then there feels like there's a lot of movement or potential movement in there. It may seem strange to say, but to look at it is to think that it has a story to tell...

Also, it's a really just great compositionl; the colors, lighting, texture... it's really quite striking.

I should share some surf photo work I've been doing lately...

mojo sends

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I have been lazy. In real terms... I am pleased the present adminstration seems to be less lawless.

I am not happy with the tendency they seem to be showing to allow the previous regime of lax regulation, MBAs in gatekeeping/policymaking roles, and the willingness to sweep past malfeasance under the rug.

When the the outging AG says, "we can't apply the law, because then people won't be willing to break it," and the incoming regimes says, "my god, your right... we'll just ignore the people who broke it" the rule of law takes a big hit.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I decided I liked about it, which is why I saved the action set.

Thanks.

[vanmojo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I concur, however, I still believe the culture will be righted over time. We didn't get here overnight... but yeah, I would like a little more indication that some folks from the last eight years will be held accountable.

mojo sends

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

The squirrel is gorgeous. The chains in the first one remind me of a famous portrait of Isimbard Kingdom Brunel.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

This one?, or this one?

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

The first one. But the second one is cool too.

[zeeth_kyrah]

I like the second much better; the chains in the first look like a hanging background instead of real chains on a reel.

Shades of Seurat

[quirky-teal.livejournal.com]

Your second photo, "Mistake", reminds me of the style of pointilist artist Georges (?) Suerat. A very interesting way to do it.

Give my love to Maia. Long time no see. Don't know if you're aware that I have translocated to New Jersey. Made the move last July.

Beth (Hal's Mom)