Posts Tagged ‘images’
Spinning Around
Some days it seems easy, some days it’s as if everything is in front of my brain declaring a need for attention all at the same time. My computer and iPad at home, and my computer at the day-job all have searches and files saved with research, manuals and instructions, …buying information. Maintenance recommendations for the water softener. A log splitter. Air compressors. The Wisconsin Department of Forestry. We should have a different vehicle. I want a Jeep, but we could sure use the hauling ability of a pickup truck. Too bad I really could use a high mileage vehicle right now. It’s got my head spinning. So much for my list of items sorted by priority.
One trick I use to counter the spin is creating images like this one. It’s a different kind of spin. One that works for me.
I haven’t had a chance yet to tell our friends who visited us recently, and who exhausted every option troubleshooting an outdoor light that wasn’t working for us, that I found the switch that controls it. I had researched the cost of buying a replacement fixture and was moments short of contacting the folks who sold us this property, to confirm I wasn’t missing something, when I decided to make one more effort to look for a switch. I don’t know why we missed it that other night. Maybe it was a little farther from the side of the door than we expected it would be. But when I stepped up and peeked behind the dresser that we had placed beside the door, I immediately saw the switch, right in the middle of the back of it.
The whole time Ryan was trying to discover why it wouldn’t light, it was the simple reason of the switch behind my dresser being in the ‘off’ position.
No wonder I find my head spinning sometimes.
Amazing Change
This is an amazing time of change for us.
Amazing, beautiful, thrilling, intimidating, exhilarating, bucolic, inspiring, exhausting, all-encompassing change.
In Transition
So much to do, so little time in which to do it. I had hoped to do a quick post this morning, before we head out on a big adventure today, but the task turned out to be not so quick. The topic I picked deserves time for more thought than I have right now, so I will save it for another day. In its place, you get, …what else? A picture to view! A leaf, in transition. Like our lives right now.
Enjoy the day!
Self Portrait
While enjoying the scenery up at the lake last Saturday, I captured this image of some guy looking at me through his camera lens:
I like the way it turned out. A little bit mysterious. It takes a second to figure out what is going on.
And, since I am posting photos, here is an outtake from the session on the water. I really like the coloring of lake and sky, and find myself wanting to gaze upon images from this series, again and again. This one falls just short of my goal, because of the slant of the horizon. It bugs me, but the color is still appealing:
I was attempting to capture the ripples created by boat traffic. That feature also failed to come through as I had hoped. The leaf that floated into the foreground grabs attention, but it doesn’t present enough of a classic leaf outline to be a rewarding distraction. It just leaves an impression of, “what is it doing there?”
If you find yourself asking, the answer is: floating.
If the leaf could have taken a self-portrait, it probably would have, but since it wasn’t able, I took the picture.
I can’t get over the feeling that all the water is going to run out the right edge of that image, following the slant. Yet, I still discover my gaze enjoying the view. Maybe that is because I am usually seeing it at thumbnail size. The gradient of colors seems more dramatic as the image is reduced.
Don’t you agree?
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Lake Views
We are up at the lake, after all. Yes the trees are peaking in their autumn splendor, but the clear, blue, sunny skies, and summer-like temperatures have the lake looking very inviting. Dip your toes into these images…
In Case
In case you were wondering what it might look like when Cyndie and I look out at the autumn woods beyond the deck at our new house, here are a couple of photos Cyndie captured during a recent visit, to give you an idea what we are in for…
Relative Something 