Working on different jobs in the Virginia Beach Conference Center, I keep seeing new angles, reflections, light, shadows and sky color. Earlier this week I saw this and stopped what I was doing to do this capture.
This guitar was sitting in the corner of a coffee shop and the owner gave me some of its history. It's been sanded, holes cut in it, the names ex-girilfriends are scrawled on the back and it's been played by a lot of musicians in surf camps and the coffee shop.
Roller skate America
I try to negate the effects of Photoshop with 7-mile bike rides. This morning I noticed the carnival had departed the 17th St. Pier for the winter leaving only this green plastic palm tree. I like the green on blue contrast.
If the Naked Cowboy in his BVDs has a place on Times Square, why not Jodi Gallaer's lingerie?
Jodi Gallaer Lingerie on the banks of the Siene
I thought the outdoor setting would also lend itself to a monochrome with sepia tint.
We are back in Seashore/First Landing State Park in Virginia Beach. Liz climbed out of the inflatable onto the log and shimmied up to a point where there was something to hold onto. We are still working with the creative lens and blur.
We put the red and black in the water yesterday. Red always looks good underwater when it's lit.
We've moved from a State Park to the new Virginia Beach Convention Center, plantings along the walkways from the parking lot. But, we're sticking with abstractions and some blur.
Liz and I worked in Seashore/First Landing State Park from the inflatable dinghy. We could get to some wilderness settings where the water was as shallow as six inches.
I apoligized for making her ride several miles at the crack of dawn with coolers of cameras in a 12' rubber boat. She said it was okay since the boat had an honorable history serving as tender to Mirage IV, a French sailboat I had in the British Virgin Islands in a previous life.
I'm building a picture in my mind. In this case, I've found a location. It will stand nicely on its own as a scenic piece, but now on to another genre. Fashion? Something else? We'll see.
A photographer friend and I took the inflatable dinghy scouting the pheriphy of Seashore/First Landing State Park early this morning. Also trying different components and settings of a creative lens.
My neighbor across the cove takes his boat out many mornings for a few hours; a little fog or drizzle doesn't stop him. On pretty days, I've watched him sitting on his dock sailing a 3' model sloop back and forth across the lake by radio control. Lately, he tosses a lot of balls in the yard for his dog.
One day, I said, "When I grow up, I want to be like you, John." He thought for just a second, then said, smiling "My advice to you, Chris, is.... don't grow up."
I'm working on this crab serving underwater (8 feet deep). Maybe it needs bubbles to make it look underwater.