In Sarasota last night. I took a walk around the block in the  afternoon, and then ate a place called Barnacle Bills. I’ve eaten there twice now and had good seafood both times. I highly recommend their Seafood Strudel. The walk back was good exercise and for this guy from the Colorado Front Range the plants in Florida are so interesting to me. Just outside the hotel door was this palm plant (tree). I know very little about these plants but this pattern of its leaves was awesome. I moved all over the place taking images from every angle I could find. Again showing the world my fascination with photography. This was my favorite. In Lightroom I converted it to black and white, reduced the exposure and tweaked the contrast a bit with tone curves. It’s been a good afternoon and evening. I liked the results of this image, the dinner was good (had salmon this time and it was in my price range). I then finished off the evening poolside with an iced mocha latte and did a bit of writing.
16 Comments
pj
The palm abstract is superb Monte. The pattern and tones are very striking. Very well done. Looks like you enjoyed some well-deserved moments with your feet up…
Monte Stevens
Relaxing, Paul!
Earl
I love the almost woven pattern of palms. It sounds like a very nice evening was had. I always enjoy stopping here because I never know where your next photo will be from.
Monte Stevens
Me either. Many flight crews can be asked by passengers where are you going to be tonight. It’s interesting to see our blank looks as we quickly check our lanyard for our schedule so we can tell them. And, please don’t ask where we were last night.
Steve Skinner
Monte, the palm is way cool.
Monte Stevens
Thanks, Steve!
David Leland Hyde
Earl makes a good point. You have such a wonderful variety of images that get better and better all the time. I look forward to see what you will post next.
Monte Stevens
Thanks, David. I’m not sure what really draws my interest in my images over the past few months. It’s so eclectic. We’ll see where it goes.
Paul
Echo the coolness of the palm! 🙂 Nice shot of you with your well worn tennies sitting by the pool. Lifestyles and the not-so-rich-and-somewhat-infamous. 😉
Monte Stevens
These shoes were made for walking, comes to mind. And, walking is something more of us need to do. We need to follow your example!
Aswirly
I love those overlapping patterns!
Monte Stevens
Thanks, and hope you guys have a great weekend!
Ken
very nice, Monte. I love the palm photo especially. The B&W conversion is a nice touch.
Monte Stevens
Thank you, Ken!
QPB (Mary Ann)
Very nice–and I especially like that you did this in black and white.
Monte Stevens
Thanks, Mary Ann and enjoy your weekend!