Saturday Morning Therapy

Mott's Flat Bridge - Livingston Manor, NY

Old Gas Pump Catskill Mountains

Waterfall - Parksville, NY

I find the best therapy after a long week at work is to get up bright and early on a saturday and find something to photograph.... Today I went up into the Catskills. My objective a covered bridge I had seen while traveling up route 17. So I set out with the sunroof open and my Ipod playing a steady collection of folk music.... After all if you are going to be in the Catskills you should take Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Mark Rust along for the ride..... right? It was a perfect morning. There is nothing better than the feel of the Willowemoc Creek rushing around your bare feet and legs while you compose a photo of a 100 year old covered bridge.... Absolutely perfect.

Keep Makin' Art,

Carl

Weekend

Hi all-

No images today.... It has been a busy week. More of the same for the weekend... but I will get out and take some photos Saturday morning. I would really like to push some paint around too. Whatever I get done I will post here for you to see.

Anyone have any big artistic plans for the weekend?

Keep Makin' Art!

Carl

Skylands in the early evening

Caught some nice light on the way home. I like the play of yellow with orange dots in the flower versus the blue and purple dots in the background.

Funny thing with IR is the same spot changes so much with the time of day. I loved the reflection of the background trees in amidst the water lillys in this one. on Saturday it was al about the sky. Today I also shot down low to pick up the perspective on the water.

Keep Makin' Art

Carl

Watkins Glen in Black and White

I chose this image out of the series I shot at Watkins Glen about a month ago to be B&W. This subject just seemed to work in B&W because of all of the wonderful textures in the rocks and water.

This week I will do some more InfraRed B&W photography and I need to get back into the studio and push some paint around again.

What are you workin' on these days?

Keep Makin' Art

Carl

Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco

Photo taken at sunrise in Jan - '09 but makes a much better antique Black and White image.

Keep Makin' Art!

Carl

Saturday Nature Photos

Besides the IR I shot at Skylands Saturday... I also got these shots. The heat has been taking its toll at gardens... but there are still some shots to be gotten.

Keep Makin' Art,

Carl

Saturday Morning at Skylands

Here are some more IR shots from Skylands. I got some really cool photos, but it was too hot even at 6am to stay for long. I did some color work also I will post tomorrow.

Keep Makin' Art

Carl

Another butterfly visits my yard

I plan to head back to skylands in the morning to see what has changed in the last couple of weeks. I'll shooting color and black & white of the flowers. Check back this weekend to see how I did.

Keep Makin' Art

Carl

Ringwood - Color IR

I had to post one more IR from this weekend. I posted the black and white version of this over the weekend.... but when I saw it in color I decided it looked like a Maxfield Parrish painting.

I have been busy with other stuff this week, but will be back to new photos and some painting this weekend.

Keep Makin' Art!

Carl

Sunday afternoon butterflies

After driving around and shooting Black& White photos all weekend it was nice to find a colorful subject to shoot at home Sunday afternoon!

Keep Makin' Art

Carl