Tag: B&W

Experimental People

Watching and Waiting

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Tags Animal, B&W, Buildings, Colorado, Creativity, Denver, Framing, ISO 800, Light, Lines, LX3, Outdoors, Reflections, Self Portrait, Silhouette, Urban

Places Weather

Suburban Winter V

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Tags B&W, Buildings, Clouds, Colorado, Denver, Dirt, Doors, Inside, Light, Lines, LX3, Mountain, Outdoors, Pentax, Stairs, Trail, Urban

Places

Waiting for Summer

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Tags B&W, Buildings, Clouds, Colorado, Creativity, Denver, Light, Lines, LX3, Outdoors, Pavement, Shadow, Texture, Urban

People Places

Texas Sculpture Garden

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Tags B&W, Buildings, Frisco, Lines, LX3, Outdoors, Shadow, Silhouette, Texas, Trees, Urban, Water

People Places Weather

After the Storm

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Tags B&W, Clouds, Colorado, Denver, Light, Lines, LX3, Mountain, Outdoors, Sledding Hill Park, Snow, Texture, Trees, Urban

Fauna Flora Places Weather

Suburban Winter IV

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Tags Animal, B&W, Buildings, Colorado, Creativity, Denver, Harriman Reservoir, Light, Lines, LX3, Outdoors, Snow, Texture, Trees, Urban

People Places

Last weekend, or more like a week and a half ago now, my wife and I went up in the mountains to a Young Life camp with the high school students we work with at our church. Not uncommon for an event like this a student took a trip to the hospital, and this time I was designated to go along as the responsible adult. The hospital visit lasted all night resulting in my complete exhaustion for the rest of the weekend. Why do I mention this? These five photos are my best ones from that weekend, and for each of them I really didn’t feel like shooting, but I forced myself to. After an all night stay at a hospital, I had reverted to survival mode, all I have to do is make it through the weekend, then I can sleep. But by forcing myself to shoot when I knew that I should, I created my best pieces. I have written here several times about re-learning. This is it again, I always hear people say “I take pictures when I feel like it”. But many of my best photos come from times when I don’t feel like it.

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Tags B&W, Bleak, Buildings, Clouds, Color, Colorado, Concert, Creativity, Dormitory, Fraser, Hospital, Inside, Light, Lightpost, Lines, LX3, Mountain, Outdoors, Snow

Places

Suburban Winter II

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Tags B&W, Bleak, Colorado, Denver, Dirt, Fences, Light, Lines, LX3, Outdoors, Snow, Trees, Urban, Wood

Fauna Flora Places

Confidence

As I am getting back into the swing of things, I am having to cover a lot of old ground. Like pushing my self to be creative, to even pick up the camera. I have lost some of the self confidence I had only a six months ago.

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I get a block if I feel like I am going to shoot something that has been done before, like it won’t be real if I am not creating something completely unique. I have to remind my self that it doesn’t matter if someone else has something that looks similar, it is creating that is the point.

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Sometimes start to shoot something then I stop and think, “no, that’s dumb”. I am so close, all I have to do is actuate the shutter. But I get a creative block, and I have to remind my self that it doesn’t matter what other people think.

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