Saugerties Lighthouse © Steven Willard
Sitting at the entrance to Esopus Creek on the Hudson River, the Saugerties Lighthouse is one hundred fifty years old this year.
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Roadside Memorial © Steven Willard
I have no idea how many roadside memorials I’ve passed in my travels. I’m seventy-two years old, and I’ve driven all over America, and some foreign countries too, so the number must be pretty high. Some were probably too small to notice while traveling at highway speeds, others such as this one, certainly caught my eye. Some clearly mark scenes where accidents took place, dangerous curves or poorly marked intersections. Others are placed on perfectly straight highways, begging the question of how someone managed to run off the road. I rarely stop, they appear too suddenly unless it is on a section of road I travel frequently. I don’t think the mourners expect us to, it’s something more personal than that, or perhaps more desperate. A cry for people to notice that a friend, or child, has been take away from them. It’s something for us to think about, at least for a few miles.
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Pickets © Steven Willard
People build fences, nature not so much, still…..the job gets done.
Olympus Pen F with Zuiko 25mm f1.8 lens, processed in Snapseed.
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“Boattail” Auburn Speedster
Looking right at home at the Madison Beach Resort in Madison, Connecticut. I was surprised to see the keys in the ignition!
*I believe this is a replica of a car last produced in 1937, but it was beautifully executed.
Roadside Atraction © Steven Willard
It’s the kind of scene most people drive by without a glance, but I can’t resist stopping to make a few exposures. I’m drawn to the textures of such images, and the breadth of tones. To see how this image works in color and full resolution visit my blog https://stevenwillardimages.wordpress.com/?p=6889&preview=true
Olympus Pen F with 15mm f1.7 processed in PS Express and Snapseed on the iPad Pro.
Whale spotting
Well, it might have been a whale! Sometimes we see what we want to see.
Olympus Pen F with Zuiko 25mm f1.8 processed in Snapseed.
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In the details © Steven Willard
How successful the design of a building is often comes down to the details. How the architect has handled the parts of a building that we can relate to on a human scale; those smaller parts that bridge the size gap between human and the building as a whole.
Olympus OMD EM-1 WITH 40-150mm f 2.8 zoom, processed in Snapseed.
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Ornamental Grass © Steven Willard
I remember sitting in my car eating a sandwich, watching the effect of the passing clouds on this clump of ornamental grass. With every cloud the light would change; with every slight adjustment of my head, the composition changed.
When my sandwich was gone I picked up the camera from the seat beside me and stepped out of the car, made perhaps a dozen exposures, then time to go. Lunch break was over, time to get back to work.
Olympus OMD EM-1 with 40-150mm f2.8 zoom, Processed in Snapseed.
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Inverted, © Steven Willard
We have a tendency to look at things from the bottom up. Generally we scan buildings from the ground up, and landscapes from near to far, which usually means bottom to top. Of course there are exceptions; dramatic images of clouds or mountains for instance, or portraits where we usually are drawn to the eyes first regardless of where the eyes are in the frame.
As an exercise, I’ve been trying to make photographs that turn things upside down, that draw the eyes first to the top of the frame, then work their way to the bottom. It produces a tension we aren’t used to in seeing in images. Finding these images is not as easy as it sounds, and I offer it as a challenge.
These bare branches hanging down from a clump of pine needles reminded me of roots working their way deeper and deeper into the earth; the textured wall in the background serving the visual equivalent of earth. While this image was photographed as presented, it works almost as well when inverted. Try looking at it that way.
Olympus OMD EM5 file processed in Snapseed and Stackables on my iPad Air.
A different point of view
I don’t know the name of the plant featured here (can anybody offer offer a name?), but usually I see them from below the leaves. Today, however, I was searching a bit of wetlands from a pedestrian bridge using my longest lens-the 40-150mm f2.8 zoom with a 1.4 teleconverter. This yielded a focal length of 210mm on micro four thirds or 420mm on full frame. I’m happy with the results hand held, and like the new view of the subject.
Olympus OMD EM-1 WITH OLYMPUS 40-150 F2.8 zoo + MC 1.4 Processed in Snapseed.
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