In Thanks

I neglect my telephoto lens. I do. I let it languish. I pass it up in favor of younger, better looking, 'sharper', more expensive lenses.

But there's a lot it can do for me that my other lenses can't. So here's a shout out to the longer lens. Thanks for blurring the background grasses to create that wash of color in the background. And for generally including less clutter in photos. And for sometimes saving me a few steps, or getting me closer than I otherwise could. I appreciate it. That's pretty cool the way you can do that.

Much obliged.

One Second

Pretty

She is, isn't she?

Reflection

I lived in Montreal for a few years. So seeing this bus sign in the Boston bus station made me feel a bit of nostalgia.

And then I saw the reflections and the light, and decided to take a shot. Partly for old times sake, partly to explore the mood of the bus terminal - the transience, the slightly clinical feeling, the people who keep themselves separate even as they travel together.

It's not a perfect shot, but there's something there.

She Has Her Feet on the Ground

Something about this shot I'm really enjoying at the moment. It's dangerous, liking your own work. You tend not to see the negative aspects of it. I'm feeling like what I'm doing right now is lacking movement. Hoping to incorporate a bit more of that in the days to come.

Hard because photography is inherently still, right?

Anyway, I wanted to give a shout out to two things here as well today:

David duChemin's recent blog post about simplicity. Well said.

And Rick Nunn's freaking AMAZING series, Fifty of Fifty. Here's his website he built for it, and here's the flickr set. He also has a blog post about it. Incredible, and very inspiring. Yes. I want to do something like this, and soon. Have to get me some lights soon, I think.

Out the Window, Part II

I think it's fitting that yesterday's photo was from my plane flight to New York and this is from my plane flight back to California. There's a comforting symmetry to that, somehow.

I looked out of the window and saw this amazing sky with the rainbow and I knew I had to capture it. I love the grayness of the sky and what the light does to the wing of the plane. Something perhaps about the circular polarizer I had on the lens at the time created the second rainbow of to the left in the image - I can't really explain that one. Anyway, two completely different images, but both shot out of the plane, and both with beautiful light.