People of Color #5 – Woman Facing a Snake
The last day of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. Give feedback and tell me what you thought of the series and which series has really stood out over the last few months.
People of Color #2 – Plaid Person Peering
Day two of my week long series of ‘People of Color’. I like plaid people. I wish more
people were plaid.
The Tourist at the Edge of Someplace in Arizona
The woman had taken our family photo and we had taken a photo of her and her friend. While she was posing for photos I took one as well. I didn’t notice her separation anxiety until I got home.
The Stranger Juxtaposition #10, Arizona, July 2008
Color Composition #9
Last in the series of Color Compositions taken in June, 2008 at the Cherry Street Farmer’s Market in Tulsa, OK.
Next week it’s all about the USA!
I like this one a lot due to the bag being right down the middle of the image. I have been working on a REALLY old laptop since
January 08 and I have been doing the color based on that monitor. Now I am on my new computer and I realize how many of my images are oversaturated. But in this case I think I like it!
Color Composition #6
A continuation of the color composition series I started posting last week. This one
is a good example of something I was trying to impart to the other participants in
our ‘color and composition’ outing at the Farmer’s Market.
That is to look behind, above, inside, around and under things to find shots. Don’t
just walk down the middle of the aisle at head height and take photos of one thing or
the obvious thing. Check out behind the booths, find what is under one of the tables
or inside a bin on the table. Be curious and bold in other words. This was a bin of
bags for customers off to the side of a vegetable table. I loved the combination of
such a utilitarian thing with the great color arrangement. Being close to the Fourth
of July didn’t hurt.
Color Composition #3
A continuation of the Color Composition series I started last week. The photos were
all taken on a very bright and sunny morning at the farmer’s market as part of a
photography group I was leading that day where we focused on color and composition as
the defining factor in a photograph.
I just had to catch up with this woman and ask her to if I could take her photo. She
was standing right next to this table and the red/red/red was just too luscious to
resist!
Cherry Street Farmer’s Market, 6/14/08, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Color Composition #1
Second in the series on Color Composition. I loved finding the little baskets sitting
in the sun next to the crumpled piece of paper that had the same color. the deep rich
version of that same color in the umbrella pole and the shadow cutting between the
other two made the composition worth capturing. The background had colors in the cool
spectrum and that made all the difference in bringing out the warmth of the orange.
Color Composition #5
Sorry for being absent for a few days. We took a road trip to Texas for college
orientation for our daughter.
The remainder of this week and next I am going to show a series of color compositions I
did while at the local Farmer’s Market here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I led a small group from our photo club in experimenting with color and composition and
here are a few of the images I came up with.
Composition with Colored Woman and Colored Wall
My daughters’ threw a party at our house back in 2002 on the last day of school. One
of their friends had her whole arm tattooed. I saw her sitting in this chair and next
to her I could see the same colors from her tattoo reflected subtlely in the wall
beside her.
The New Year
It’s like a bag in a tree, unexpected and beautiful.