COMPOSITION WITH COW PORTRAIT

 One of the places I visit, is a famous local house which is decorated  with all kind of found and collected junk. But lately it does not look that interesting any more. Everything looks neglected and deteriorated. Still, I did take a few pictures and liked this painting of a cow surrounded by some typical Canadian objects like old snowshoes, skates and hockey sticks. Again I prefer the monochromatic interpretation.

FOUR BRICKS

 

Composition with four bricks. The original was in colour but, after some study, I decided to turn the image into a monochromatic picture. Then I brought back the colour in the bricks to make them prominent in the composition and I liked the result. It definitely made the image visually stronger.

REEDS AND REFLEXIONS

 Another black and white image, which I took a few years ago when taking pictures around Munster, Ontario. It is a simple subject of reeds and its reflexion in water. I like the contrast between the detailed textured reed contrasted by the strong black and white reflexions, which look like a Japanese ink drawing.

LAKE NIPISSING, CLOUDS AND WAVE

 

Visited my favourite beach today. It was simply a glorious fall day. But instead of creating a colour interpretation of the landscape, I decided to render the scene into black and white. The reason, simple I liked the similarity between the clouds and the wave at the bottom. Black and white made the two elements more dominant in this composition.

FALL REFLECTIONS

A beautiful Fall day yesterday. We went for a walk along some trails, where we took pictures along a small creek. My first interest in running water are reflections and textures. I know what I can expect but of course the results are quite new and can be spectacular. The final image looks closer to an abstract painting rather than a straight photograph. Working with the various images on the computer is exciting because you manipulating the original file you can  see the image turn into final result you had in mind in the first place.

AUTUMN LEAVES

 

Just listening to Nat King Cole singing Autumn Leaves. I still love his interpretation of this popular song.

SoI am posting my visual interpretation. I like the painterly effect of this Fall image.

FALL LANDSCAPE

 

On the weekend I took a walk around the maple bush on the old Thorn’s farm property on our street. The house is gone but the old maple trees in the back of the property are still there for the time being. It’s a pity but I expect that soon we will see this nice area transform into some form of new development. So just in time to take some nice romantic Fall landscapes.