There’s nothing like a Corinthian column capital (or the alliteration of three “c” words). . . .
By Scott Shephard
How about a post with few words today? (This photo was taken at the Minnesota state house in St. Paul.)
Canon 5DIII 1/40s f/3.2 ISO2500 35mm
The candid camera captures a man lost in a work of art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC . . . .
By Scott Shephard
Other than distant voices, the sound of my camera’s shutter was the only thing to break the silence of this wonderful room in the National Gallery of Art. But the man in the photograph was oblivious to all of that. Such is the power of art . . . .
Canon 5DIII 1/40s f/2.8 ISO1000 16mm
It’s no secret that I like the look of bare trees. . .
By Scott Shephard
I guess I can’t help it. I like to photograph bare trees – whether dying, dead or, as in the case of this massive oak in Maryland, about to leaf out. It’s that brachiation that enthralls me. ( I just used two fancy words to pay homage to all of the English teachers that helped shape me. 🙂 )
Canon 5DIII 1/60s f/8.0 ISO200 35mm
Good architectural design involves good furniture. . . .
By Scott Shephard
An ongoing project of mine is to photograph various places at Lake Area Technical Institute where a local office store (Office Peeps) has provided furniture. The LATI library is featured in today’s post and as far as I’m concerned everyone involved in the design did a brilliant job.
Years ago, when Watertown High School added a large new wing, there was an open house to show off the new space. One of the taxpayer complaints was, “Why did we waste so much money on color?” The thinking must have been that institutions should be gray and drab since gray and drab is cheaper. Color, light and space have huge impact on how we feel. And as I life-long teacher I can tell you that all of the senses play a significant role in learning.
Canon 5DIII 1/10s f/7.1 ISO320 19mm
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A few more from the photo shoot:
Glenyce Jane seems to be in perpetual motion but she does pause from time to time for photo opportunities. . . .
By Scott Shephard
We recently spent the better part of a day with out son Brian, daughter-in-law Katie, and our beautiful granddaughter Glenyce Jane. She is approaching her first birthday and I have discovered that when she is awake, she seems to be in constant motion, which makes her hard to photograph.
After her afternoon nap, Glenyce donned her brand new Easter dress, made by her grandmother Mary. We tried to pose her and I managed to get a few decent shots, though she seemed to be interested in any thing but my camera.
Glenyce Jane is perfect in every way, of course. What grandparent wouldn’t say that about their grandchild?
Canon 5DIII 1/100s f/5.0 ISO200 200mm
This flashback from a year ago compresses hours into seconds. . . .
By Scott Shephard
Today’s Flashback Sunday “image” is from a year ago and you are seeing my first attempt at time lapse photography. It’s not much but it’s all that I have.
For the technically minded, I set my 5DIII on a tripod with my Canon intervolumeter set to take a photo every 30 seconds for about 3 hours. So in this short video you are seeing about 260 photo in the short 13 second sequence.
There’s a lot that I have to learn about time lapse photography. It’s on my “60 at 60” list.
When you stand in the vast, open landscapes of western South Dakota, you are never in the “middle of nowhere. . . . “
By Scott Shephard
I live in South Dakota and now that I am mostly retired and my wife is soon to be mostly retired, people often ask if we plan to move away. To me, the question is really, “Now that you aren’t forced to live in South Dakota, why aren’t you moving somewhere better?”
I’m not puzzled by the question given that many times this winter, facing more cold and snow than I like, I wondered, too, about why we live here.
Today, the answer lies in the landscape you see here, which is somewhere well west of the Missouri River and somewhere slightly west of the Cheyenne River. It was a blustery, gray day when I stopped my truck along the side of the road to take this photo.
I am a long way from a city of any size. I am down a gravel road that curves ocassionally but then goes straight as an arrow for miles. I have not seen another human for close to two hours. There is no sound of traffic, or of farm machinery or even of cattle. I hear only the sound of my breathing, the soft click of my camera shutter and the rush of the wind along the grassy hills.
And I am not in the middle of nowhere.
Canon 5DII 1/800s f/10.0 ISO400 70mm
A tree falling in the forest makes the ground shake – even if there is no one there to feel it . . .
I will spare you my philosophical meanderings about trees falling in the forest. I will say that the ground shook when these trees fell. So consider a rephrasing of the question: “If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to feel it, does the ground shake?”
Nascent: “just coming into existence and beginning to display the signs of future potential” . . . .
This photo was taken at in the fern room of the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul, MN. In a room filled with various shades of green, it’s hard not to notice a fern that is a nonconformist. But I don’t think this one is a mutant. Instead it had recently unfurled because the surrounding brothers and sisters were green. Thus I concluded that this fern was newly unfurled. The dictionary definition of “nascent” on which nascence is a derivative is “ just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.” I like that word and all that it intends.
Canon 5DIII 1/50s f/4.5 ISO500 100mm
White lilies are a symbol if Easter but to me stargazer lilies are a symbol of summer
