Week #51

Winter Tree With Bird

This week, on December 21st, we will experience the winter solstice. The winter solstice marks the rebirth of the sun and is an important turning point in both the natural and spiritual world. It marks the shortest day when the hours of daylight are at their least. But it also starts the increase in the hours of daylight and darkness becomes ascendent once more.

The natural world shares this reminder to all of us - light will always come back to us and illuminate even the darkest night.

Week #50

Don't Let the Rain Stop You

"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Week #47

San Francisco - Chinatown

Here is another image from my San Francisco street photography class with Valerie Jardin. I usually shoot my street photography in black and white, mostly because I love the simplicity it brings to the image. Sometimes though the image you are trying to capture calls for the complexity of color. That's when I turn to the classic chrome setting on my camera. This was one of those times.  Using color helps to tell the story of this woman and the world that surrounds her.

See you on the streets!

Week #36

My Week in Images

Sunrise in the Park

Looking Up

Waiting

This week I was on a mission to figure out which of my cameras I should take to Paris. I would like to take just one camera with me so I am deciding between my Fuji XT10 and my Fuji X100T. Both are small cameras, which is very important for me, but one has a fixed lens and the other I could bring along several prime lenses. It's important to me to keep my equipment simple since I don't want my equipment to get in way of the experience. 

For the entire week I shot with my Fuji X100T. This is such a great camera, so easy to tuck in my purse and take with me all week. These images were taken around the town where I live. I tried a little landscape, street, and abstract photography to get a sense of using the camera in a variety of environments. 

I'm pleased with the results so this decision is going to be much harder than I thought. Stayed tuned for next week when I put my Fuji XT10 through the same paces.

Week #27

Waiting 

Hand

Watching You

While some people prefer to use their phones while they wait for a shopper, I prefer to get out my camera.