Month: August 2012

Cotcottontonwowoododss

/ Tom Yulsman / 4 Comments

These cottonwoods are old friends — I see them on many of my runs west of Niwot, Colorado. And I’ve shot many pictures of them. This double exposure, with a Mamiya medium format film camera (Fuji Velvia 120 film, at ISO 100) was a happy (or perhaps for some viewers, an unhappy) accident: I forgot to advance the film.

Commute

/ Tom Yulsman / 6 Comments

Cars stream north out of Boulder. Were they aware of the spectacle behind them? (Shot on Fuji Velvia 120 transparency film, ISO 100, with a Mamiya C220 camera. A relatively low-resolution scan with very minimal post-processing — in other words, this is pretty much the way it looked right out of the camera. Copyright: Tom Yulsman)

Oops

/ Dawn / 8 Comments

As a confirmed denizen of the small hours of the morning – an early field trip to the city seemed quite reasonable. I’ll photograph the sunrise from Queen Anne Hill – tunes, car, coffee, camera and tri-pod – off I went.

Now, I realize I shoot with a Lumix point and shoot, have limited patience for technically fiddly things, and don’t own a copy of Photoshop – but that doesn’t stop me from imagining fantastic photos.

Despite my best intentions the results were neither here nor there. I was going to consign this outing to the hard drive, but I’m going to share it anyway. This blog is about photography – it’s not always perfect. I take pictures for fun – so join me in poking some fun at myself.

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Backyard in Hawaii

/ Michael Pecaut / 6 Comments

I’m just trying to see how this works.  Just created a Flickr account, so we’ll see how this goes.  These are all pictures taken in my backyard in Wahiawa, Hawai’i.  Well, technically, my parents’ back yard.  I only lived there a few years before we moved to Virginia…long story.  None of these have been Photoshopped since I really wouldn’t know how.

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