Cypress Creek
This is perhaps my favorite scene on earth. I know that I have posted images of it before, but this is a recent one that I especially like. For this image I experimented with something I learned from my wonderful Flickr friend flashfix. She has commented that she is very wary of putting any glass in front of her lens. Because of my many years of black and white film photography, I have had a strong bias in favor of filters that bring out the blue sky and clouds. For that reason I have done virtually all my outdoor work with my first high-end digital camera, the Leica M-240, using not one but two filters in front of the lens: a UV filter mostly just to protect the lens, and a rotating polarizing filter to bring out the contrasting blue sky and clouds. Taking a cue from flashfix, on this day I shot with no filters in front of the Leica Summicron 50mm lens. I like the result, although I cannot pinpoint the reason why. Note that the little bit of sky showing in the image is somewhat dull but does not detract from the rest of the image.
Cypress Creek
This is perhaps my favorite scene on earth. I know that I have posted images of it before, but this is a recent one that I especially like. For this image I experimented with something I learned from my wonderful Flickr friend flashfix. She has commented that she is very wary of putting any glass in front of her lens. Because of my many years of black and white film photography, I have had a strong bias in favor of filters that bring out the blue sky and clouds. For that reason I have done virtually all my outdoor work with my first high-end digital camera, the Leica M-240, using not one but two filters in front of the lens: a UV filter mostly just to protect the lens, and a rotating polarizing filter to bring out the contrasting blue sky and clouds. Taking a cue from flashfix, on this day I shot with no filters in front of the Leica Summicron 50mm lens. I like the result, although I cannot pinpoint the reason why. Note that the little bit of sky showing in the image is somewhat dull but does not detract from the rest of the image.