Snow?

Money

Something Lavender

Flower Within

Signs

This is a wrap on the signs for now. If you live in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area and know of a good sign let me know. Also 13x19" prints of this make for fun bar art. Email if you interested.

Da Vines Back

I have got to get out and do some shooting.

Soft Petals

Nailed

Ypsi-Arbor

Rosco

Going Down

Cyclic Spectrum

Or a Slinky on a CD.

Crusty Leaf

Beer Depot

Dies Cast

The Green Door in Front

I used some crazy sharpness settings to get this effect.

The Fabulous Hudson

Depot Town, Ypsilanti has the last Hudson dealership. Yes it's been awhile since they've had any new models to offer.

Icy Glass Droplets

Big 10 Part Stor

OK Russ, here it is.

???

Strange happenings on the north end of town. Unexplained monoliths and persons trapped in a billboard. Hmm?

Neon Tap Room

Triple Cicle

I'm posting yet another shot of the Clematis plant that's growing on the corner of our garage. Other ice shots include Ice Leaf one and two. Then there's Water and Ice Droplet. Also Alien Seed, Clematis Lattice, Seed Twist, Going Bad, and Still Going Bad. It's a lot of mileage from one subject.

Hudson Window

This shot is the beginning of a series of photos I shot Tuesday night. It all began with the Neon Muffler I posted back in November. Whenever someone local looked at it they would say something like "Oh cool, do you know about the sign on such and such street." It seemed everyone had a favorite sign. So Tuesday I drove around for a couple of hours and collected images of all of them. I'll dole the photos out over time. You'll know it's the last one when I write a wrap up with links to each of them.

Bulls Eye

Three Kinds of Flower

Last weekend I shot a bouquet of flowers I'd purchased for my wife on our anniversary. (Three years last Friday. Yes, thank you, thank you.) While processing the following image I was playing with the individual color curves, trying to get smooth, deeper contrast (red curve in particular) when I thought it might make a nice B&W or Sepia.

So I killed the color and continued to play with all the color curves ending up with this Sepia version. This is a rare thing for me but once in a while tonal gradients will get my motor running.

Which leads me to the final image in this story. When I got done with the Sepia I turned the color back on just to see where I'd ended up, and had this crazy cross processed looking image. Of all of them, this one really brings out the depth I was looking for.

At this point I'm not sure which one I like best. I've printed them all.

Glass Droplets