RWS: a Picture a Day - 2008

Desert Bokeh

Note: I changed my “save for web” action and something in it must have altered my “create a fancy border” action and so now I have a the SUPAH-fancy border….. ha! Will fix it, sorry the image is huge!
Note2: The desert this year is FABULOUS. I love it when we have so much rain - every catcus around here is covered in an insane amount of flowers. These are nothing to write home about because we always have these every year…. but at some point really soon here I’m going to get a good shot of a saguaro flower for you all…. I just need to find a ladder….

Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory -

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Note: Texture credit: Angelique (Liek) via Flickr

16-35mm @ 35mm | 1/4000 @ f/2.8 | ISO 400
pp: defog, crisp color boost, tonal change with gradiant at 5%, texture overlay — basically, I’m just messing around with stuff in photoshop.

“I believe in the photographer’s magic — the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour. To create grand visual moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance.” -Amyn Nasser

Note: Weeds in my backyard bathed in overcast evening light.

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | 1/800 @ f/2.8 | ISO 400
pp: defog, resize and sharpen for web

She See’s Love Where Anyone Else Would See Weeds

Note: Dandelions always remind me of a song by Five Iron Frenzy about how a child brings the mom flowers and how most people see them as weeds, but how the mom knows that they flowers were brought with a huge heart full of love and then creates that vivid mental/emotional picture to paint a picture of our personal relationship with Jesus - how we see our offerings as weeds, but how God understands the heart behind them. I love that song. Lost the CD in The Great Divorce CD Separation of 2005. Sad. It was a good CD. I totally forgot about that until today. Itunes, here I come.
Note2: Want to read the lyics to the song? Sure you do! go here:
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Five-Iron-Frenzy/Dandelions.html

16-35mm lens @ 35mm | ss that I’m too lazy to look up right now @ f/2.8 | ISO 400
pp: crisp color boost, Lab color, high sharpen pass on vivid light, resize and sharpen for web