Spent the weekend up on the Mendocino coast in northern California and became obsessed with photographing patterns. Comments and critique are welcome – happy new year to all!!
-- Susan
#3 All remaining shots in this series were taken at single place on a trail along Mendocino’s Big River. I was fascinated by reflections on a still pond and by light coming through the birch trees. http://www.stanford.edu/~suemcc/mendocino/3925.jpg
Beautiful reflections and patterns, Susan. I guess you are getting bored with the status quo shots? Next thing we know, you will be getting a camcorder.
Thanks, all, for the kind comments and for weathering my "Jackson Pollack" kind of weekend!
Imagemaster wrote:
I guess you are getting bored with the status quo shots? Next thing we know, you will be getting a camcorder.
Tony
Tony, hope you are hearing the same "Twilight Zone" music that I am right now -- I was just on the web looking at camcorders. Honestly..... Nee nee nee nee, nee nee nee nee.....
Susan
Susan, this series of yours is very creative and imaginative. I've looked at these a few times now and see something different each time. No way to pick a favorite, but I keep going back to #5 and wonder how you did this. So...how'd you do it
MaggieBee wrote:
Susan, this series of yours is very creative and imaginative. I've looked at these a few times now and see something different each time. No way to pick a favorite, but I keep going back to #5 and wonder how you did this. So...how'd you do it
Thanks Maggie! Wish there were some special, technologically amazing trick that I could lay claim to... but I just pointed the camera and clicked the shutter!! The reflection itself was just fantastic - that's what had me fascinated - and it changed every few seconds. I could have stood there for hours shooting except that my ever-patient husband was starting to grumble...
Susan, You are so talented I've decided to set up a shrine in my office to you featuring, incense, animal figurines, and printouts of your images - oh yes, along with your name spelled from letters cut out of a magazine. It will be interesting to see how my wife reacts to that.
Really, you have such a superb eye for composition, it is always a great pleasure, and a learning experience, to look at your images.
Very fine feel to these, Sue. I think Jackson Pollack wasn't quite as serene as these and he probably smoked a whole lot more. It feels good to open up our eyes to new (old) patterns in nature and realize them on paper, so to speak. It does feel enlightening to witness some sort of concious plan in nature. Thanks, and have a Great New Year.
I would call it a magnificent obsession, Susan. Gorgeous really. Would have been nice to see a crocodile eating a wilderbeast in the mix to add a little extra texture, though....
It feels good to open up our eyes to new (old) patterns in nature and realize them on paper, so to speak. It does feel enlightening to witness some sort of concious plan in nature. Thanks, and have a Great New Year.