Photography
Sunset Ride
Sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time.
For this picture, it was Montaña de Oro beach in central California as the sun was sinking below the horizon. While we were savoring the sea sights, I saw two horses and their riders emerge onto the beach, far to our left. Picking up my iPhone, I waited till the horse-and-rider duo was where I wanted them to be.
Technical info: automatic iphone settings
Giants of Energy
My husband and I were driving across western Kansas when I saw irony in the midst of a farm field adjacent to I-70. Two wind turbines, new giants of technology in the field of energy, towering over an oil-well pump and the small shadow it cast.
Technical info: SLR; f5.6; s/s 1/250.
Sails and Sailors
Place: Barcelona. Time: early summer, 1963. The occasion: a stop along the Mediterranean as part of a trip by four of us summer-vacationing teachers. I don’t have very much information about this picture other than the elements– two Spanish-Navy veterans, at rest by the Mediterranean Sea they’d no doubt often called home. Behind them, smaller tools of their trade.
Technical info: Ektachrome slide film, later scanned and converted to positive and digital images.
Goose Trail
“Nature” should share this photo’s copyright, having provided all the elements: setting, color balance, framing–even a cruising-goose prop.
A slight breeze was rippling the water of a small trailside lake in Kansas the day I stopped walking to catch my breath , reflect on the special beauty of this place–and then, capture it digitally to enjoy at will in the years since.
Technical info: SLR. F-stop, 5.2. Shutter speed, 1/200.
Done!
Photographing people from behind appeals to me because the photo seem to capture the emotion of the moment rather than focusing on the person’s face.
In this photograph, my then-two-year-old grandson had been working in the yard with his grandfather. Apparently tired of pushing his toy lawnmower alongside “Bumpa,” he’d walked away, up the brick walkway from the backyard, and over a discarded rake. He had yet to push open the gate toward a bright, beckoning beyond.
Technical information: SLR. ISO 100. F-stop 5.2. Shutter speed 1/200.