So we see the month close out, and what a month it was! Well, certainly a productive one from a photography standpoint, not too shabby as we enter the cold months. I’m not even sure what the count of image uploads stands at now, since I’m writing this ahead of time, but it’s at least 145 counting the ones you’re about to see, which puts it in the top ten for all of the months this blog has existed (yet still behind May of this year.) And a halfway decent fall colors show as well. Make sure Santa knows, will you?
[Oh, Santa judges on quality, not quantity? Well, shit…]
In like fashion, we have four abstracts to see the month on its way, and they look almost exactly like these:
I’m not telling you what this is, but I suspect you already know anyway. I liked the mix, at least, and the color registers.
One of the nights that the Leonids was supposed to perform, after a nice clear day, I was out burning off some of the fallen branches in the yard and did some time exposures of the sky while I was at it – or at least, started to. I hadn’t noticed that the stars had largely disappeared in very short order, since my eyes were more adjusted to maintaining the fire – that’s a single spark peeking in at lower right. A couple of stars fought their way through, but I wrapped up photography for the evening soon after this.
Playing with the ‘artistic’ filters in GIMP? Smearing Vaseline on the lens? Processing film in really old chemicals? No, just shooting the reflection of some sweetgum leaves in the relatively still surface of the pond – but yes, largely the same effect as the other options, just ‘authentic.’
And finally,
This decaying chair, child-sized, has been sitting on the edge of the upper pond since long before we moved here, and as yet, I haven’t bothered doing anything with it. I thought it made a kind of poignant scene, especially since it faces away from the water, and all the symbolism that can be drawn from that. I may return to this subject when the water back there looks a bit more like water, and dog only knows what I might find when I start to dig it out. If the posts abruptly stop, well, you have a suggestion as to why, anyway.
That’s it for November, unless it isn’t – I still have a few images waiting in the folder which will come up sometime, I just haven’t planned when.
And no, that tree in the foreground is not where the first image came from. Nice try though.