double date and cattails

Double Date is certainly not the greatest photo that I've ever taken, but there are elements of this frame that I love. Compositionally, I like what I was trying to do, but I have not yet figured out how to seperate the similar tones that exist in the foreground and the background.

Double Date was taken at Bernheim Arboretum, south of Louisville, KY. On my last day there I asked my friend Will where he would like to go, and this is the place he picked. I had never been, and I had a great time.

It was a peaceful place, with lots of nature to shoot, including this frame, called Cattails:



To see the other shots I took at Bernheim, click here (they are title Bernheim Arboretum I and Bernheim Arboretum II).

woodland steps

photo set: signs of spring

I've learned to shoot photos during winter months. That suited me well - lots of high contrast moments, subjects tending toward isolation, stalking the world in black & white. You know, all the introverted, reflective crap.

But now it's spring. Whole different ball game. Whole different sport.

Yesterday I tried to go out, drive around, and find some inspiration - standard winter modus operandi. I don't know about you, but I can't find frames of springtime to shoot from the driver's seat of a 2001 minivan. I have to walk. After I had come home discouraged (I never even got out of the van), I strapped my youngest to my back and we walked Liberty for 1.5 hours. Fantastic. Spring is here, and it was only by walking up to it that I got to find it.

I'm not a botanist, so I don't know the names of anything I shot yesterday. But, boy, do they look pretty!