Hey it’s Fourth of July week here in the states. Can’t let it go past without posting my favorite
photos in Red, White and Blue now could I!
This was taken on July 4th, 2007 in Frisco, Colorado at the town parade. A perfect way to show
the american colors and still be stylish. I like it.
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!
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.
Another Color Composition in my week+ long series. This one was taken mostly because
her blue strap was so beautiful running across her purple shirt. The black shirt with
the orange stripes in the distance is the perfect counterpoint to balance it out. I
tried a version with the orange stripes cropped out and it was not nearly as
interesting.
Cherry Street Farmer’s Market, 6/14/08, Tulsa, Oklahoma
4th day of my series of Color Compositions taken at the Cherry Street Farmer’s Market in Tulsa, OK
I didn’t set this up except to ask the woman if I could take her photo just the way she
was. She had the tattoo and she had the flower just like that.
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
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.
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.
The 10th and last in the two week series of drawings I did in church.
This one really came about simply because the square in the upper half of the page had
the little drawing of a waterfall in it. So I just expanded out from it to create a
landscape. Not sure why I chose a well, maybe it is a wishing well, similar in kind to
how people think when they pray, as if they are wishing for something.
This is #9 in the two week long series on drawings I have done in church.
Sometimes it’s just a random silly drawing that comes out,
having nothing to do with anything.