“Pike’s Peak After Spring Snow Redux” taken 4/21/2018
Changed crop & processing a little of this old photo from a couple of springs ago. I really need to go back and do it from scratch as it is a little TOO over-processed now (lots of added noise). But I like this crop better.
“Flying South” taken 12/31/2014 Denver, CO
Another reprocessing of an old favorite. This was an accidental quick shot that came out a little better than I expected, considering. I was trying to take a closeup of the bird on the wire directly out the apartment window when I noticed geese flying up in the background, swung and tried to widen the angle a little as I shot with no chance to play with aperture or shutter speeds. The result is of course that the geese are out of focus and blurry, but I think it adds to the shot and feel of one bird watching others leave for the winter.
Pretty much identical composition and cropping from my old first attempt, just cleaner and more pop using Lightroom, and a little more dramatic with some added vignette.
poem © Jeffrey Beaty
written Dec. 31, 2015
24 lines
Times change, and so must I. Appropriate for the beginning of a new year.
This poem began like many of my poems, as a bit of negative maudlin dribble. And then it took a turn for the better. That positive spin was a little bit a conscious choice, but also kind of where I’m at… Trying to break the habits my brain likes to get into and drive outside the “ruts” my grey matter likes to follow. But this turn was also a little what actually occurred, and shows that nothing always stays the same. And if you look hard you can find something to enjoy, be happy or thankful for even in the worst of times. Read the Poem
Sitting on a bench near the end of the day the other day, took this HDR photo of the Stone House at the Bear Creek Green Belt. We had been under a “wave effect” cloud pretty much all day, which you can see at the top of the photo. The sun was just setting, lighting the scene from the horizon under the stationary cloud front.
014:365:2014 Snowstorm over frozen lake panorama
Tried processing this several ways and while I’m not super happy with the end result I think its not too bad. Initially I really wanted to see the misty foggy look of the far side of the lake, but all my attempts did not come out well. In future I guess I’ll have to try using a tripod and try to shield the lens from falling snow better as the speckling caused by the falling snow and melting snow on the lens really played havoc with this digitally stitched panorama. Ended up going the other way; with this high contrast, dark, sharp & desaturated version which I think came out pretty cool and managed to capture the downright chilly landscape.
013:365:2014 Winter Windmill Sunset
009:365:2014 dead end
008:365:2014 woody ditch
A woody ditch near where I work.
002:365:2014 Footprints Triptych
Footprints at the Park: Goose, Squirrel, Dog, Human
Took these while taking a walk in the park this morning with the thought that I might use one of them as my 365 pic of the day. Wasn’t sure I’d use any and I changed what little idea I had on their use after taking them. As such I wish I had composed a couple of these differently. Specifically I wish I had shot the geese prints differently. And I didn’t initially notice the dog prints next to the humans, so I would have better centered the side by side prints.
Finally, got to be a better way to compose a triptych in Elements than the manual method I used. I always seem to spend WAY more time messing with the digital images than I ever get to do using the camera.
