I enjoyed all your photos! I feel like there is a story behind a few of those snaps that I definitely like to know more about, like the wizard's hat and the place that you took pictures of the clouds/reflection or the pyramid.
I enjoyed all your photos! I feel like there is a story behind a few of those snaps that I definitely like to know more about, like the wizard's hat and the place that you took pictures of the clouds/reflection or the pyramid.
Oh my gosh, @plushzilla - You are soooo perceptive! LOL Yes, there is! I was actually going to make a post today called, "Backyard Antics does IFC Photo Shoot" regarding how the squirrel and crystal occurred - very cute story.
The guitar is my husband's very first guitar - was a nostalgic moment bringing it out again (a million stories attached) and has been in storage for a while after years of searching for a few replacement pieces that are hard to find).
The Legos are revered in this house and I was given 'special access' (negotiations did take place) to the thousands of pieces collected over the years - I was originally going to set a scene of drunken aliens (orange slime the result of too much) so I needed specific 'goblets' (tiny goblets) but in a sea of thousands of Legos that idea quickly faded and was replaced by a Star Wars/Mario/Spongebob defeat of an alien invasion ;)
The wizard hat was found at a theater prop boutique and we had a ball there! lol At the risk of being kicked out, I had to finally tell the person working there that we were on a photo scavenger hunt.
And that first photo of Reflections was an accidental 'aha' moment. This was a small space between two buildings that I originally photographed a few days before the finals began so I knew I had to go back to get that shot again. Several things came into play - would the sky look the same? Would a different time of day interfere with the reflection. I also needed white puffy clouds to make the photo which is rare. The interesting thing about this very understated space between the buildings is that from a distance and different perspectives it doesn't tell a story - you don't get this effect. It is largely un-noticed. You almost have to be pulled into it with interest and stand in a certain spot to 'see' this scene. I knew I had an interesting shot but it wasn't until I got home and pulled it up on my computer that I fully realized how powerful that image was for many reasons. One the camera itself saw more than I saw standing there, two the freaking amazing artistic quality of architectural vision when intermingled with the natural world and three the surprise that those little funny looking humps on the roofs were 'mountains' - I didn't see this until I was getting ready to post the photo - It's a mountain scene with a river running through it against an open sky. This photo really opened my eyes to a whole new aspect of photography and architecture (which I have never been drawn to that much).
The pyramid I took at the Arboretum here. There's a succulent garden on a rooftop that had some structure that I remembered being a pyramid but I wasn't entirely sure. It didn't matter though, I love spending time there and I was alone so I could stay until they closed which is basically dusk. As it turned out, it was a pyramid and what the photo doesn't show is an AMAZING setting sun behind some monstrous cloud formations...visualize concentrated sunlight streaming out in all directions along the fringes of the clouds (they almost looked like they were catching fire on the fringe where they met the sky). So this was the setting of the pyramid shot and the sun was reflecting off the glass of the pyramid no matter where I stood - blinding and COLORFUL. I didn't bring any other lenses with me either so I didn't know what I captured. Again I was surprised when I pulled it up on my computer and saw the little rainbow reflection - I guess the pyramid became a periscope and prism of light - bending it. Pretty cool! I also overstayed and got locked in the Arboretum - :)
Oh I love it. Haha. Those moments where ordinary things become extraordinary are indeed magical. Good job on the photo it's really impressive. You can even enter that in the photocontests by juliank for architecturalphotography. :D Looks super fantastic. ♥