Departures

I went back tonight to photograph the tree that the Parks and Recreation department has been cutting down. It’s all but completely gone.

As I mentioned in the last post, I was going to try to make it to Pioneer Parkway again to photograph the continuation of the removal of a beautiful, giant tree. I went there and they’re making good progress (not that I’m happy to see such a gorgeous tree go).

Last night I rode my bike out to Cutler Marsh, west of town (a 17-18 mile round trip). The ride out there only took about half as long as I had anticipated, so I sat at the little picnic shelter there and watched and listened to all the birds flying about and singing. A few […]

Tonight I hopped on my bike and rode to Central Park to make some photographs. The park was pretty packed, so none were made in Central Park, but I managed to find a few really good photographs in the adjacent Pioneer Parkway:

I was pretty impressed with this tree and the huge scar where a (I […]

Here’s one more photograph that I made last night but didn’t post for whatever reason:

I went over to Willow Park tonight to photograph and came away with a few successes:

I also discovered a cool feature on my new camera: when shooting monochrome, the camera includes settings to simulate a red, blue, or green filter, as well as different intensities of sepia and cyanotype tints. I was pretty excited. Unfortunately […]