Posts Tagged ‘trees’

Beautiful flash blur in the orchard

In Uncategorized on 22 April 2010 tagged BW, digital, hand-coloring, landscape, nature, trees with no comments

I love this effect. And the neat thing about digital is that you get instant feedback on whether or not you’ve done it right. On the other hand, I still haven’t figured out how to print digital BW so that the prints can be hand colored…. a longer topic for another post. photo: Pear tree [...]

New hand colored photos — and big, too!

In Uncategorized on 4 April 2010 tagged BW, hand-coloring, landscape, nature, Oregon, trees with no comments

Photo: Forest path, 16×20 hand colored black and white photo, 2010 Here are three new hand-colored prints that I was able to enjoy finishing up on a rainy Sunday afternoon. All are from recent black and white excursions into the woods around our house. This one, above, shows the trail that leads from our driveway [...]

Flash-blur in medium format

In Uncategorized on 30 March 2010 tagged 645, BW, hand-coloring, landscape, Pentax, trees with no comments

Here’s a quick flash-blur shot in the woods taken on the Pentax 645. It’s not stunning, but I really like the way the vines creeping up the front of the tree to the right were outlined in shadow. That’s an effect I keep working to replicate, not always successfully. Again, one to be colored and [...]

Madrone tree in the forest

In Uncategorized on 7 March 2010 tagged hand-coloring, landscape, nature, trees with 2 comments

This is an especially wonderful, delicate hand colored photo, if I do say so myself, which I do. This little madrone tree sometimes catches interesting light where it lives on the edge of the dark fir forest. The added color is very light and oddly precise, which suits the subject well. photo: Madrone, hand colored [...]

Ponderosa Pine, Harney County

In Uncategorized on 20 May 2009 tagged landscape, nature, portraits, trees with no comments

photo: Ponderosa Pine, Harney County, 2009