Blossoms in Color
One more comparison today of color vs. black and white. Here’s the colored version – a photo of blossoms on a tree. I took this photo last week in Scio, Oregon. There’s a whole row of these street...
View ArticleFrosted Fence
I took this photo Friday morning while returning home after a magazine shoot by way of back country roads. I’m often attracted to the beauty of hand-built, wooden-post fences. Usually there is nowhere...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Black and White
I love black and white photos. I’m not sure if it’s because of the bygone eras that they evoke, or what. Although I wonder if the root may be the black and white TV I grew up watching…Fodder for...
View ArticleLet There be Ice!
We had a snap of cold weather a little over a week ago. I was in Portland at an independent author’s conference (PDX Indie Uncon) through some of it. But my husband took our two boys up the ridge above...
View ArticleFrozen in Natural Time
And here’s the same shot as yesterday, but without the color filter. Which do you prefer? Natural or purple? Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you have a wonderful time with family, loved ones, good food and...
View ArticleMiniature Ice Sculpture
This either looks like a miniature ice sculpture, or some sort of ice monster. I can’t decide. What does it look like to you? Happy day after Thanksgiving. Hope you didn’t forget to set your scale back...
View ArticleBlue-ice Twig
I took a lot of frames on the day the trees froze. I like the tiny fractures or crazing in the ice on the twig, which shows up in this macro shot. And the bokeh (background blur) is nice. I’d like to...
View ArticleLizard-skin Ice
I think of a lizard shedding its skin when I look at the cracked, crazed pattern of the ice on this oak leaf. What do you see? Photo Copyright Danita Cahill. All rights reserved.Filed under:...
View ArticleDripping with Ice
Besides the interesting subject matter of these ice formations on leaves, twigs and branches, it was fun taking these ice shots because of the hundreds of tiny twinkling rainbows of colors captured...
View ArticleFrozen Blackberries, Anyone?
The sun was sinking fast by the time I spotted these blackberries coated with ice, and I didn’t have a tripod with me. Even holding as still as possible, holding my breath and all, it wasn’t still...
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