Last time the light was crappy, and I tried to shoot characterless architecture that didn't really turn out so well. This time I wanted to investigate the areas I missed before, namely the ponds. Redemption was almost mine; the light gave me a hard time but the dove shot below pleases me greatly.
On the drive home I stumbled upon the Richmond Green Park, and I'm not sure how I missed it before now. The brown-eyed susans (if that's what they are) photo is my favorite out of the set.
My technical goal was to try the Auto ISO and 'Vivid' picture control settings on my camera, and get used to switching each on and off.
This was the first photo I took after setting the picture control settings to 'Vivid'. It certainly is! Also, notice the excellent bokeh from my el cheapo 18-200mm.
This was the second photo I took, and is 100% luck. There were two morning doves sitting together on a hydro line. I was late to that photo, but perfectly on time for this one.
I was going to crop this one way down to isolate the reflection, but there's something about it that draws me to it as-is. Perhaps it's the log, pointing into the photo.
The first excellent example of the 'Vivid' setting in action. It's a little bit like cheating. But as one blogger I recently read said, the subject shifts from the object to the color itself. Different, so not quite cheating.
If I were the kind of person to title my photographs, this one would be 'Fancy Note Paper'.
Geese. In flight. Properly Framed. In focus. Booyah.
Some more 'Vivid' flower porn. (That sentence might be the best organic SEO value I've come up with yet!)
I should explain this shot and the next one. I was wandering around the 'Celebration Forest', a spot where you can pay to have a tree planted in memory of something. People attach tags, flowers, other bits of memorabilia to the trees in honor of whatever memory they symbolize. They are not all death related, as this one shows.
But when they are, you can feel the love.
This is the first photo from Richmond Green. I saw the waterfall while driving past on the way home, hopped a couple of lanes of traffic, and got to work. If anyone makes me shoot a Richmond Hill wedding at gun point, this is where it will happen.
The floating brain aliens will take you to their spaceship for the journey of a lifetime. Or the gazebo, whatever comes first.
Vivid, happy flowers.
There are many interesting types of plants. It'll be a good spot to go back to when there's a decent sunset, so long as I don't have to fight with many other photographers for the shot (there were many).
Fun cliché.
© Jeremy Buehler and Bug Noir (www.bugnoir.com), 2010.
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