My online journal where I share my interests in photography, nature, coffee life, journaling, fountain pens, bicycling, spirituality and asking deep questions.
Fog is an instrument nature uses to create one of its beautiful emotive scene. As a nature photographer we can take this same tool to make our images. Fog acts as a natural soft box, scattering light and reducing contrast. I’ve learned to expose for the the fog and not the subject, very similar to snowfall. As I headed for the coffee shop, I remembered the isolated trees in the open field and actually saw this image in my mind. It was not quite what I had envisioned but it works for me.
So what are you suppose to do on a cold, cloudy, rainy day in the first week of December? Well, I decided to make a pot of creamy chicken noodle soup. Sounded good to me and once I had it simmering on the stove it smelled even better. While the soup was cooking I went ahead and put up the tree, well actually two. When I went to the store earlier for the ingredients to make the soup, I found a small 3 foot tree, with lights, on sale for 10 bucks. So, I bought it and now I have two trees this year. These two 3 foot trees, which equal 6, are small compared to Earl and Bonnies 9 footer but if I buy a third one next year we’ll have the same size trees. Anyway, later on in the evening I sat down and enjoyed my bowl of soup, a piece of blueberry pie and my two trees. Trees are up and lights are on. Here’s an image of one of my little angels.
I miss the morning sunrises of the Colorado plains. I would rise early and drive east looking for solitary objects to place against the sometimes vibrant or pastel colors along the horizon. I find myself drawn to the trees that stands naked and exposed on cold wintery mornings.
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?