Just messing around killing time waiting to go back to work. Took a picture of a run-of-the-mill auto and tried to do something with it.
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Trash Can Kitties and Little White Car
February 9, 2010 – 5:05 am
This is the last of the Trash Can series for me. The Trash Can Kitties features the trash can as the actual subject with everything else diverting away from it. In Little White Car I actually enjoy the tree with its twisting bark. The trash cans actually add to this photo along with the car as a contrast to the tree. The color of the house gives a bright splash I really like.
Alley Truck
February 8, 2010 – 6:38 am
Was snowing just a wee bit when we went out on this shoot at Wamego, KS. Everything was pretty much cold and gray. The purpose of this shot was for something colorful and a challenge a buddy had put me up to. My buddy at work put forth a challenge to take a photo of a trash can and to somehow make it interesting. I used the HDR process to give the truck a more metallic look and over-saturated the colors because it gave the photo a certain feel I was after. I love the color of the truck. When I was a child I had a metal sling shot the same color. For some reason, this type of hue and sparkle really appeals to me.
Copyright © 2010 by Preston Surface. All Rights Reserved.
Small City Power
February 8, 2010 – 6:30 am
Crossing the Kansas River bridge, entering the south side of Wamego, Kansas on Highway 99, and by the railroad tracks is the Municipal Power Plant.
“The City of Wamego owns and operates an electric generation and distribution system, serving around 1,900 customers in Wamego and the area immediately outside the City. Population served is about 4,300.
The Municipal Power Plant, located at 3rd and Poplar St. has a maximum nameplate capacity of 12,495 KW. Eight duel fuel (natural gasl#2 diesel) internal combustion engines power the generators. The City also has an interconnection with KPL rated at 5,000 KVA (7,000 KVA with cooling fans). ~Wamego.org
The building of Wamego Municipal is interesting in its old and new all interconnected and pumping its power, and in a way, resembles Wamego with its mosaic of old and new throughout the small city of Oz. What I photographed of the old brick part of the building, I don’t know any of what the stuff is on the building. Except for the ladder hanging over the side over the W.
With this image, I applied colored edges and then a colored pencil sketch for texture giving it a more illustrative look.
Over at Abstract Reflections, see this image as an invert/exclusion giving it yet another look: Small City Power~Invert
Copyright © 2010 by Anna Surface. All Rights Reserved.
Old Lantern and Pump
February 7, 2010 – 7:37 am
When out photographing nature and the landscape, sometimes I miss the details of humankind either deliberately or just not noticing. At a gate for a stone house farmstead, not only was there a security system, there was an old lantern on a post. The wick of the lantern was rigged for a little lightbulb and therefore, electricity. Yet, it is an old lantern giving a rustic feel. On down the country road, I noticed the old ‘Iowa’ pump with the rusted water trough as if it belonged to the landscape.
Copyright © 2010 by Anna Surface. All Rights Reserved.
Frosted Tumbled Bush
February 6, 2010 – 3:04 pm
Well, this frosted tumbled bush was brightly lit from the slanting, rising sun in which highly contrasted the dormant field grass behind it. The image looks almost abstract. Will the bush become a tumbleweed to tumble along in the high winds of summer? Speaking of weather, the wet, heavy snowfall we had yesterday has mostly melted; however, another snowstorm is headed this way on Sunday.
To add: Well, I have tried every program I have in resizing the image to appropriate blog resolution making sure it isn’t too big. The photo when resized with any of the programs I have came out clear and proportionate. Yet, when downloaded here in the WordPress file, the photo was crunched and looks blurry in places. Sharpness and size was lost in the WordPress download. I really do not know how others resize for their WordPress.com blogs. I’ve noticed for a good while the crunching and losing photo quality with WordPress.com. It is one of my major complaints. What is the sense in taking tack-sharp photos to have them blurred when downloaded? So, most likely in the near future we will be definitely moving to our own website with blogs suited and optimized for photography. That is my rant for this day.
The photo above is 750px × 543px. See another view of the same photo 800px x 630px, Frosted Tumbled Bush, at our gallery, Surface and Surface Photography Gallery.
Copyright © 2010 by Anna Surface. All Rights Reserved.
Field of Barns
February 6, 2010 – 4:40 am
While working on this photo I thought I saw a blur along the side of the first tin barn in this photo. Should I remove this imperfection I thought. So I zoom in closer to see what the heck it is. I think it is a deer. Maybe a goat, but does look like a deer.
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