Archive for the tag 'Reeds'

May 23 2008

Empty Playground

Published by Andy under Landscape

Playground, empty, reeds, field

This empty playground at the top of a hill/sand dune was overlooking the ocean and it seemed like a strange spot to have a playground. Of course it was the winter when I took this picture so maybe in the summer more people use it but on this day of least it seemed that it may as well have been in the middle of nowhere.

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May 05 2008

Flying Pirate Ship

Published by Andy under Landscape

Pirate Ship, Kite, Grass, Clouds, Sky

It was a very rare day in January when I took this photo. It was 75 degrees out and people were out and about enjoying the day. It was almost like a summer day there were so many people walking around enjoying the weather. People were flying kites, walking their dogs and acting like it was the summer. I saw this cool kite someone was flying that looked like a pirate ship and the sky was so blue that it almost looked like the ocean. The way the wind was blowing on the reeds almost makes them look like waves as well.

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Apr 26 2008

Reeds and Bee

Published by Andy under Macro

Bee, Reed, Ocean, Macro

I took this photo last weekend while testing my new Tamron 70-300 lens. I was taking a macro shot and I think it came out really well. As a surprise bonus I got a bee buzzing by that came out pretty clear in the photo. It is on the right hand side of the picture in case you did not see it.

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Apr 06 2008

Black and White Conversion of Reeds Photo

I recently read a very good article on several different black and white conversion processes on Matt Greer’s Photography Blog. I had taken this picture of some reeds by the ocean that had some very dramatic looking clouds that I thought would look great in black and white so I decided to test a few of the methods he mentioned on this photo and share the results on my blog.

Reeds, Ocean, Color, Clouds, Beach

First here is the original photo in color. Like I said I am pretty happy with this shot but It just seemed like this photo was asking to be converted to black and white. Now to see how the conversions turned out: (more…)

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