The camera has a difficult capturing the color red. pumping up the photo with saturation makes red bleed like blood. however, if red isn’t matching what your eye saw when shooting it, then the best way to make it come to life is to add warmth instead of saturation.
Category: flowers
iPhone in my back pocket
i have a broken pelvis…it healed cockeyed, so like a car with a broken axil, i have no straight lines any where. i cannot carry a bag, it hurts. point? i have one- i bought a man’s wallet phone case for my iPhone. & put in my back pocket of my jeans (no back pocket,…
light paints me different colors
the same flowers shot at different times of day, shot w/ different sunlight-the outside images were shot in the early morning, with the sun just starting to reach over the top of the hill, in front of my house. the image of the flowers in the vase were taken in my kitchen, the light source…
yellow can be soft
or hard.
the shy one
So shy, is the Lentin Rose…i try hard to find a point of a spring flower who fears the sunlight. these are forced, with wire, to face me. a bit like putting a finger under the chin of a small child, to lift the face & be astonished by their beauty. happy spring Alabama
soggy wet butterflies
Alabama earns a point for being able to have Pansies all winter long.
I am changing how we celebrate Hanukkah.
Pretty audacious, right? well, i am tired of tiptoeing around what is right & wrong with how to celebrate Hanukkah. i grew up in Vermont with two parents, my father is Jewish & my mother converted. We grew up celebrating both Christmas & Hanukkah. we got a Christmas tree. perhaps a day or two before Christmas….
simply beautiful
last afternoon backlit rose
