Cozy warm, North Salem, New York © Steven Willard
Nothing like visiting good friends on a cold, windy, winter day. Enjoying the warmth of their hospitality and cozy surroundings. Watching the birds at the feeders as the wind blows and the temperature drops outside.
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July in the Mohave © Steven Willard
It may be cold and wet in New England now, but then it was hot and dry. I look at this image and remember.
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Coffee time, Camden, Me. © Steven Willard
This fellow reminded me of my dad. I don’t know if it was his time in the Army during WWII, the effects of the Great Depression, or maybe it’s just my imagination, but it seems to me that he and other folks of that era drank coffee in a more serious manner; almost like the devout drinkers one sees in neighborhood bars before lunch. I’d be interested to know what his reaction would be to Starbucks and other trendy coffee bars where one can spend more on a cup of coffee than he once earned in a day.
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Naked Tree © Steven Willard
I wonder if trees dream, and if they do, I wonder if they ever dream of being caught outside in broad daylight naked? Have you ever had that dream? Scary, right?
Pentax K5IIs with kit zoom.
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Here’s Looking at Yew © Steven Willard
I’m a sucker for farm animals. Especially the friendly, curious ones like this who had learned that people would offer an apple core or a scratch on the head. HOw could they not?
Panasonic Lumix G3 with the little Panasonic 17mm f1.7 lens, processed in Snapseed.
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Tangled Tree © Steven Willard
I struggled at first when I tried to refine the composition of this photograph. I thought there should be a way to crop, or a better angle to simplify the image. I was fighting with reality. In the end, I accepted the fact that what drew me to the image in the first place was the chaos, and how the eye wants to zigzag all over the frame before it lands on the little “bullseye” in the top center of the image. It was an image that knew what it wanted to be before I did.
Olympus OMD-EME1 with 12-40mm f2.8 zoom converted to black and white using Silver Efex Pro 2 in Lightroom.
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Lean on me © Steven Willard
It sounds ludicrous to say that I stumbled upon one of New York City’s iconic buildings, but that’s how it felt. I was part of a group taking a photo walk around the city, and had no idea we were near the Flat Iron building until we were standing in front of the pointy end of it. I wanted to record it in some way, but was a loss how to do that under the circumstances. Fortunately a woman stopped at just the right time and in just the right place, and the image was made.
Olympus OMD EM1 with 12-40mm f2.8 lens.
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John, Boston © Steven Willard
I met John online through WordPress. We followed one another, “liking” and commenting on each other’s work until I felt that I knew him as a friend even though we had never met in person. We fixed that this past Summer when I drove up to Boston. When we met it was as though we had known each other for years. I had a great time being shown around Boston, talking photography, and in general just getting acquainted.
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Framing Arizona © Steven Willard
View from Meteor Crater, Arizona, I loved the idea of putting a frame around it and calling it a picture.
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Olympus OMD EM5 with kit zoom.
Glazer’s bad dream © Steven Willard
The outbuilding was some way off the road. What caught my eye was the reflection of the sun off the broken glass. As photographers we are constantly searching for interesting elements; lines, textures, contrasts, and tones, and hopefully meaning*, which offerers the biggest challenge. Does the image serve as a metaphor for something deeper?
*Minor White asked us to not just, “photograph a thing for what it is, but for what else it is”, which I believe is the best advice to photographers anyone ever offered, “f8 and be there”, a close second.
Olympus OMD EM1 with 40-150mm f2.8 lens, processed first in Snapseed® then moved to Nova® for conversion to black and white.
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