Weekly Photo Challenge: Simple

For these week’s photo challenge I decided to chose subject matters that I would shoot in black and white. The simplicity of the black and white draws the attention to the detail of the plants and instead of also focusing on the colors. Enjoy.

Lake View Cemetery: Figures

This will be my last post with pictures from my trip to Lake View Cemetery. For this post I have concentrated on pictures of figures throughout the cemetery. As said before, one of the reasons I gravitate towards photographing cemeteries is the sculptures used as plot markers. (My favorite is still one I took in Paris at Pere Lachaise.) I hope you enjoy this collection of photographs.

(I actually posted a black and white photo of this statue back when I first began my blog and spend a fair of time trying to find this statue again.)

Lake View Cemetery: Crying Angel

When I went to Lake View Cemetery back when I was primarily using film, I focused on their famous Crying Angel monument. Of course I went back and took a series of shots focusing on the different details. Returning allowed me to take pictures in color, which really accented the lines on the face. Enjoy the pictures!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful

Another reason I love going to cemeteries is that they are so peaceful. People are quiet out of respect for the dead and their visitors. There is a stillness in the air. Lake View Cemetery was thus a perfect place for me to take a picture representing peaceful for this week’s photo challenge. This is the picture of the lake that Wade Chapel sits on the edge of.

Lake View Cemetery Crosses

There is something about cemeteries (especially old ones) that appeal to me as a perfect place for a photography expedition. The landscape is undisturbed and the plot markers are often spectacular. So today I found myself at Lake View Cemetery, the most famous cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. I spent a lot of time there and took a lot of pictures, especially because I had not been back there with a camera in four years (when I took these pictures). The last time I went, I was still using film.

I spent a fair amount of time going around and taking a lot of pictures. This is the first batch I am posting from the trip (other than the ones I posted earlier today for Sunday Stills). These are various pictures of crosses throughout the cemetery. Crosses in cemeteries really grab my attention because there are so many different types with a lot of different textures. (And I love textures). Enjoy these pictures and make sure to return for the rest!

Sunday Stills: Corners

I was at Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland today on a photo expedition and took a lot of pictures. Here are some of the ones I took specifically for this challenge: Corners. Enjoy!

New Lens, New Year

For Christmas, I got a brand new lens: a Tamron 300-70 zoom/macro. It’s amazing. But I am definitely in need of getting use to it. I’m not use to being able to be at a length of an object that I want to take a close up picture of. I have also figured out it needs more light than my previous lens. Here are some pictures that I have taken over the past couple of days with it and I continue to experiment with it. 

Rough texture

While I was looking through my pictures I came across the texture of  falling water and thought it would make a good texture. I have tried this photoshop alteration recently. The picture I used as the central photograph was also recently posted on my blog. I hope you enjoy the slight alteration.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Wonder

For this week’s weekly photo challenge: wonder, I decided I would post two photographs from my trip to the Grand Canyon in March of 2006. I was there for two nights with my parents and I don’t remember the time or date when we arrived because the following two days overshadowed the trip.

On the second day, it snowed. And snowed, and snowed. We could barely see into the space. When the snowed cleared up the next day, it was still difficult to see into the canyon. Due to inversion, clouds were hovering around the top due to the hot air at the bottom of the canyon. I posted my favorite picture from that series back when I first started by blog. Luckily, the clouds cleared up and I was able to have my “wow” moment of the Grand Canyon.

Sunday Stills: Potluck with a Purpose

For this week’s Sunday Stills we were asked to go through are archives and look at two similar photos that improved by changing the view point. The most difficult thing was finding pictures I have done this to. I know I have done it, but I have edited my pictures at length over the year continuously making room for on my computer. I found this before shot of a picture I posted from a fall walk. I can’t remember exactly how I changed my view in addition to zooming in, but I think I stood up a bit. I like the cropped picture because I feel like it make the location a little more ambiguous. The lighting improves between the two pictures.

Let me know what you think!