A very narrow depth of field, and some post processing in Lightroom gives this leaf the impression that it's floating in air, rather than lying on the grass.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Crystal Lake, Illinois

Olympus E-510 DSLR

Olympus ED 70-300mm f.4-5.6 zoom

ISO 400 RAW

A fallen Photinia Red Robin leaf that had turned into a thing of beauty.

Last week the first leaf fell in my yard. It took me so by surprise that I documented it. Soon there will be thousands and I won't be documenting but raking.

Whillst playing with my camera in my dad's garden I came across this pretty leaf and couldn't resist taking a few shots :-)

Been wanting to take a photo like this for a long time. Backlit banana leaf. Super cool grain & texture.

So, I have to admit, I was WAY more excited about seeing the inside of Maple Leaf Gardens (which, somewhat disappointingly, has not been altered at all since it closed) than I was about seeing this piece. My expectations were met - the piece was interesting (see the description below), but it could easily have been set up in any building in town and gotten the same (if not better and more intimate) result.

Without Persons, 2008

Luis Jacob - Toronto, Canada

Multimedia Installation

"Without Persons" is a multi-media installation centered around two computer-generated male and female voices speaking about being-in-the-city and being-with-others. Accompanying the audio are two video screens which will abstractly and resonantly illustrate the spoken text. The artificial voices speak in an earnest manner about being with others in society -- voices that seem to belong to the concerned but disembodied surrogate-parents of an uncannily absent child.

As audience members, it is within us that is produced the primal scene of conception and birth, the emergence of our budding consciousness, and our entry into a well-managed existence. The eagerness to communicate expressed by these caring, parental voices contrasts poignantly with the inhuman aura of artificial speech.

Fluidr

October 18th, 2006

Strawberry Leaf

Nothing too special, I just like it.

© 2011 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission.

Amazingly, this image is less than 1 megapixel (3.6% of the original 25mp frame) before reducing for web, so almost a 100% crop.

Phipps Spring Flower Show

While I deeply appreciate your comments, please do not include an image.

I love nature and the color green, I think green is color of life, well along with blue, yellow, red....

Best seen large on black.

You can watch my favourite photos here.

Some plant. :B

a photo I took out in my backyard, made it the appropriate resolution to be a wallpaper.

Oak leaf on dry creek bed in Hopland, California

This leaf wouldn't stop spinning in the wind, so it took several tries to catch it facing the camera. The profiles just weren't as interesting ;-)

here is a leaf that was at this park I went to

Photo Taken In New Jersey

On the path to the Landslide Overlook of the Jordan River Valley.

Aesculus hippocastanum

leaf