New Favorite from Sony NEX 7

Shot this yesterday with the Sony NEX 7, thought I'd see how the black and whites looked out of the camera... and, DANG, I'm afraid my Hasselblad is going to setting on the shelf more and more! Kit lens, hand-held, no post-processing other than B&W conversion with some custom tweaks to gray-scale.

the Rose and Rumi

This rose makes me think of Rumi:

"Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?"
-- Rumi, (translated by Coleman Barks)

Orcs, Morlocks; H.G. Welles and Tolkien

I love machines. Why then does this photo make me think of Orc, Morlocks and the dark recesses of the earth and human mind? I didn't feel this way when making the initial image capture, but this is what emerged as I worked to finish the photo. Hmmm.

Redwood Majesty

This tree on the northern California coast was alive and thriving when Icelandic Vikings first settled in Greenland during a warm period in the Tenth century when much of the island was free of ice and glaciers.

Some black and whites I like

Different scenes, different perspectives that I shot at different times, but I have a fondness for them all.

Moonscape

I am having a difficult time making up my mind about this photograph. There is something in it I like, but I am not satisfied with it overall. I like the form and the black sky (infrared treatment) but I don't like the texture of the rocks; I think they are too contrasty and gritty. Yet when I drop the local contrast on them, they become wishy-washy and ho-hum. Guess I just need to work on it all over, starting from scratch. There is something GOOD in there, I just haven't yet pulled it out.

Getting high 1

Looking east on a high country morning

Colorado's state flower, the columbine, nesting...

High Country Potpouri

There's something about this house

Serenity

Functional beauty

Beneath the surface

A Few Thorns

Color me sharp.

Come hither...

Come, let us dance the mystic path
Enter the narrow way, weave
the shadowed trace, pain and pleasure,
amongst light and dark. Let the Lord
of beauty enter. Come, dance.