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White Wall

02 Feb

I was parked on the main street in Old Salem, North Carolina and as I was opening the door to get into my Toyota I noticed this image. What caught my eye was the tree shadow on the white wall, with contrasting brick above and below. It’s taken me many years to develop what I’ll call a “camera eye” and I’m seeing some progress in that regard. What that means is that I tend to look all around me as I go about my day, judging what might look good if it were to be made into a digital photo. Given that I usually have a camera with me, that’s an easy task. Sometimes I get lucky, most times not.

 
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Posted by on February 2, 2012 in Artistic and Creative

 

Winter Cabbage

01 Feb

With the unusual warm weather we are having this year across the United States (less Alaska which is way below normal) I felt these two photos of winter cabbage growing in a pot next to a doorway made for a pretty photo. Not sure of you can eat it but it’s sure nice to look at.

 
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Posted by on February 1, 2012 in Flowers

 

Front and Back

31 Jan

Here’s the front of a historic house in Old Salem, North Carolina.

Now, here’s an image of the rear of that same house.

Had I not wandered around back I would never have known that the rear entrance to the house was at a much lower elevation compared to the front and had a very nice set of stairs going up. Since that entrance was “street-side” it was in fact perhaps the main entryway.

 
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Posted by on January 31, 2012 in America's Past, Architecture

 

Once inna while…

30 Jan

I suppose out of 100 photos I might make on a given day, less than 10% are what I’d judge as being above average…for me at least. This is one of those which I was very happy with, but I did not know that until I had opened it up on my computer to begin digital processing. What’s that you say…you “process” digital images? Yes I do. Just as I did back when I was developing film in the darkroom, I took an original “negative” as captured on film by the camera lens, and then adjusted the exposure and so forth to have it look like I remembered the original scene. It’s much easier to do this today digitally, but the process is essentially the same.

In this scene with horses relaxing and feeding, in the center of a beautiful farm in North Carolina, with dark clouds on the horizon, everything was “just right.” Once inna while this happens…and then I am happy.

 
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Posted by on January 30, 2012 in Landscape

 

Patterns and Shadows

28 Jan

Nothing special here…just two images I made recently. The first one is an original cobble-stone street in Danville, Virginia…unused today. The other is…well…just a brick wall with some shadows left by the bush in front. One of the best parts of digital photography is that you can “shoot away” whenever your eye spots something of interest…whether or not anyone else besides you is in fact “interested.”

 
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Posted by on January 28, 2012 in Architecture, Close Up

 

Come on in!

27 Jan

Once, many cities and towns in America had numerous small barber shops located all over. The red, white and blue spiral sign outside was beautiful when lit up and rotating at night. Inside, one could meet friends, gossip, read magazines, take a nap and lots of other things while waiting to have the friendly barber go snip-snip…hopefully keeping one’s sideburns level. This one is obviously closed in Danville, Virginia…but I thought it would make for a nice recollection of our history.

 
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Posted by on January 27, 2012 in America's Past, Architecture

 

A Building “Star”

26 Jan

In the past, brick style buildings with rather high walls between floors, were constructed using long steel rods to add strength to the walls, by securing each end of the rod with “star-shaped” devices as seen here. I have always looked for one of them laying about so I might make it my own, but I have never been lucky that way. So, I let my camera do the taking.

 
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Posted by on January 26, 2012 in Architecture

 

Just Two Doors

25 Jan

What caught my eye here, other than the nice contrasting colors and patterns, is the way the two doors are situated. What happened, for example, when one walked out the one on top? Just kidding, I am sure there was once a platform present. This old building is located in the historic Tobacco District in Danville, Virginia. Tobacco was once “king” in Danville and surrounding areas…today it’s a presence seen only in decaying warehouses, log-crib curing barns, and faded signs. Other than the nostalgia involved, seeing the demise of tobacco is not a bad thing. Just my opinion.

 
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Posted by on January 25, 2012 in Architecture

 

The Register Bee

24 Jan

An iconic newspaper in Danville is the Register Bee. Today it has a circulation around 15,000. Years ago, it operated in a large multi-story building in the center of town and I captured a bit of that building here. I liked the way I could frame the engraved title at the top of the building with a pink-colored portion of a building behind…with a small bit of blue sky also showing. The building today is empty, with the offices of the newspaper having moved elsewhere. Progress? I think not.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Architecture

 

Step up to the Danville Courthouse

23 Jan

The courthouse in downtown Danville, Virginia is not that different in design from what you’d see elsewhere. So, what I did was to position myself in various locations in front, looking up the steps to the main doors. The fact that one of the doors was made of brightly polished brass, and the railing up the steps was similar in nature, gave me some contrasty colors in the photo composition. My first capture (above) is different from my second and third below. Point being to “move around” when making photos and get away from the standard “tourist-type” composition. Try to create interest in what you make.

 
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Posted by on January 23, 2012 in Architecture

 
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