• Plants

    No Straight Lines!

    June 13, 2009

     

    Green is out!
    No Straight Lines!

    A couple days a go I wrote about the dominance of  the color green in nature. Well nature is also dominated with curves. I do admit to enjoying the curves you find sunbathing along beaches :-), but nature has that beat. Let’s just say nature is into curves. You just do not find many straight lines in nature. While, man, on the other hand designs and builds with straight lines. Even the framing of this images is done with straight lines. What we may consider a straight line in these leaves still has a curve to them. 

    So, when we walk in nature do we take notice of those curves?

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  • Photography

    Natures Favorite Color

    June 10, 2009
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    Leaves

    Green is a predominate color in our nature. Ever notice that? Well, I have and love it. When nature puts on a display of green leaves then throws in a few blossoms and flowers it can take your breath away. When nature includes cloudy skies to diffuse the light and then add a few drops of rain we have a miracle before us. Just to entice us more, nature will also add a few sweet smelling fragrances from those flowers and blossoms and the smell of rain. I like green and I’m not talking about money!

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  • Cityscapes/Urban,  Metro Parks,  Plants

    Yea for Spring

    March 25, 2009

     

    Spring is Near
    Spring is Near

     The first day of spring in the U.S. is considered to be around March 20 or 21, depending on what day the vernal equinox occurs. This is when the sun sits directly above the equator on its apparent trip northward. I took this image on March 20 while on a walk at Inniswood Gardens. I like how it shows the tree blossoms and the green grass as well as the barren trees and the lonely bench. A big Yea for Spring!

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  • Art/Design,  flowers

    Green Ferns

    February 2, 2009

     

    Green Ferns
    Green Ferns

    “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”  Dorothea Lange

    Photography has given me is the gift of seeing more of the world around me. These ferns were against the wall of a stucco building next to a pathway leading to the swimming pool and immediately caught my attention. I feel photography has allowed me to see more of the world rather than just walking past it.

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