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pecunium ([personal profile] pecunium) wrote2009-05-09 04:10 pm

Pictures

New locale, new subjects.


Wings
Wings

Contrary to my work of the past month or so, this was shot with a long lens (300mm). I really like the way the colors work in this. The mood is somewhat like a watercolor, with washes of color. The shutter was at 1/180, which is at the feathered end of stable for that lens, and the breeze was blowing, but the backscatter of the light gave some good silhouette.


Inverted Dogwood
Inverted Dogwood

It's in negative, just because.

The dogwoods are still in bloom. They are pretty enough, but I don't have the sort of eye get a decent photo in a larger scale. Perhaps if they weren't all in front of houses, but I don't know. My present skill set isn't what it might be for full-sized shots of trees. They are very different up-close. The flowers sit above the leaves, which is what makes them as pretty as they are; the branches look as though the flowers are resting on platters.

Up close it seems they are a sort of large carpeted plant, as if they were a flowering ivy. [positive version]


Horsepower
Horsepower

Something from further back. For visual appeal the classic Mustang has got to have some of the strongest sense of power going. Really clean lines and great proportions. This one is in the "bloodied, but unbowed" state of repair. Living, as I do, in California rusted out; with evidence of dry-rot, isn't the usual sort of disrepair I see.

[identity profile] writingortyping.livejournal.com 2009-05-09 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The maple spinners are gorgeous - I love it. And considering how much I hate the little fuckers in real life, that's saying something.

I want a skirt made out of fabric that looks like it...

[identity profile] commodorified.livejournal.com 2009-05-09 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my. That first one, especially, is what makes letting you put on shoes and leave the kitchen sometimes so worthwhile. :-)

[identity profile] pecunium.livejournal.com 2009-05-09 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to know I can keep some liberties through works.

[identity profile] commodorified.livejournal.com 2009-05-09 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Faith without works is dead. :-)

ETA Besides, I didn't say that was WHY, I only said it makes it (particularly) WORTHWHILE. :-)

ext_12272: Rainbow over Cleveland, from Edgewater Park overlooking the beach. (Default)

[identity profile] summers-place.livejournal.com 2009-05-09 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful, especially the maple seeds.

[identity profile] zhaneel69.livejournal.com 2009-05-10 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I adore wings...

[identity profile] lexica510.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. The first one... *scrolls back up, again* That's quite beautiful.