An Unlikely Combination

Black And White Photography, Photography
Double Exposure - Lily Leaf and Pine Cone

Double Exposure – White Lily Leaf and Pine Cone

When playing with the remnants of my holiday bouquet it didn’t appeal to me to simply photograph dead flowers, so I employed the double exposure function on my Nikon D810.  I used various manual settings to adjust the exposure for the effect I wanted.  I then converted the image to black and white using Topaz Labs.  What do you think?  I like the effect of the pine cone hiding behind a sheer screen and the added texture of the Lily leaf adds another dimension – almost making it abstract.

On a separate note, for those of you who truly love black and white photography I highly recommend subscribing to the on-line magazine – BWGallerist.  I think you’ll find the articles both interesting and inspiring.

Happy New Year!

Valet Parking

Emilio
The Bellagio Hotel and Casino November 11, 2013 1.3 sec at f/5.6 ISO 400 10mm

The Bellagio Hotel and Casino
November 11, 2013
1.3 sec at f/5.6
ISO 400 10mm

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The Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the strip in Las Vegas is known for it’s fountains that are choreographed to piped in music. They dance every 20 minutes or so. They have become almost iconographic in that every Tom, Dick, and Harriet has to take a photo with their phone. (Does any body use a phone to talk anymore? I mostly text.) Anyway, I did take a couple or twenty shots of the fountains this night but found this image much more satisfying. Hope you do, too!

Please visit Photos By Emilio for images in color as well as black and white.

Winter in Southern California

Black And White Photography, Photography

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A boy runs in the surf during the golden hour at the beach in Santa Monica.  While the rest of the country is busy shoveling snow and trying to keep warm, those of us in SoCal are suffering through a drought and unseasonably warm weather.  And by suffering I mean enjoying playing in the surf in late November.

Check out more of my images over at my blog SamoBiker.

Time goes by

Black And White Photography, Photography

time goes bye

Le temps passe

Tout le monde arrive
Tout le monde repart
Tel des rapaces

Ils ne me voient pas
L’horloge tourne
Les minutes défilent 

Mais moi je reste là
A regarder le temps
Assise sur mon banc

Depuis maintenant 21 ans
Je ne sais plus
Si je vis dans le présent.  

Time goes by

Everyone arrives
Everyone is back
Such as raptors

They don’t see me
The clock isn’t ticking
The minutes scroll

But me I stay here
To watch time
Sitting on my bench

Already for 21 years
I don’t know
If I live in the present.

In this image we are in Greenwich, London. This was taken this past summer and it was one of the only photos I took.
I wrote a little “poem” to accompany my photo. I tried my best to translate it in English but it does not rhyme with the translation.