Category: Garden

Sunday December 5, 2010

WARREN CONNECTICUT – I like this time of year. The light is crisp and variable. I spent some time today in the garden, which is more interesting to me from a photographic standpoint now than it is in the warmer seasons. Here are two images – I couldn’t decide between them. If you have any thoughts let me know. Both take with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens. I’m shooting at f1.4 with a neutral density filter to explore the out of focus regions in these images.

Out in the garden

Ornamental grasses . I guess that my attention goes to winter themes this time of year.

On this day one year ago: first snowstorm of the year.

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Garden Landscape Travel

Sunday September 19, 2010

LONDON, ENGLAND – I had a chance to take a walk in Hyde Park before leaving for the airport for the flight home. This specimen tree was photographed at about 8:30 local time, an hour and a half past sunrise. The image is stitched from 15 separate frames, all shot with my Leica M9 and the same 30-year-old lens referred to in yesterday’s post. I’ve included a 1:1 crop to give an idea of the detail that can be captured with this technique. Stitching was done in Photoshop.

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Garden Landscape

Saturday September 11, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday September 11, 2010

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – I’ve grown up in a landscape tradition of photography, where, like paintings of landscape, everything is in focus. Edward Weston accomplished this by stopping his lenses down – shooting at f64 to compensate for the inherently narrow depth of field of his 8×10 inch medium. One of the threads that I’ve been pursuing on this blog is exploration of the out of focus portions of the image (for example in my September 5, 2010 posting). The quality of a lens’s out of focus image is referred to as “bokeh” or “bo-ke” which is the Japanese term for blur. One of the lenses in my Leica kit is 35mm Summicron version IV (made between 1979 and 1997) – a lens that it known as the “bokeh king.” Think of shooting with this lens as riding with the king. It’s probably my most used lens.

Here’s in image from our garden in Warren, Connecticut:

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Garden Landscape Out my window

Sunday September 5, 2010

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Again, the evening light mimicking Fall.

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Garden Landscape

Sunday July 11, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday July 11, 2010

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Experimenting with a new lens on my Hasselblad. Ferns in the early morning.

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Animals Garden Home

Friday July 2, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Friday July 2, 2010

WARREN CONNECTICUT – Our travel from Quito finally ended this morning after an all night flight with a layover in Miami. I managed to keep a lunch date with my son, and I managed to stay awake during the drive to Warren to arrive in time for dinner with some old friends.

Here is the sign for our house that we put out on Rabbit Hill Road after a number of guests were unable to find us. We used the wild turkey theme because . . . well we have a lot of wild turkeys.

Leica M9 with 28mm Summicron.

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Garden

Saturday June 19, 2010

Post author By Woody
Post date Saturday June 19, 2010

WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Perennial boarder. We bought our house in Warren in 1987. It was a split level ranch on a cornfield. We’ve added bits and pieces to the landscape over the years – it’s a delight that our efforts finally look like mature landscape.. It would be an exaggeration to say that we’ve had a master plan, but we have pursued a general direction, leaning toward the use of native plants in naturalized settings. We’ve planted one perennial boarder, however, that’s an exception.

Leica M9 and 50mm Summilux Asph

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