Humans vs Nature

Landscape photography records the outside world. Sometimes landscapes are only of the natural environment, other times they reflect human interaction with Earth.

When I'm walking outside it's as though my eyes turn into lenses. Instead of seeing everything around me at once, I look at things in chunks that move, expanding and contracting, imagining color and light changes, until I see something that I want to never forget or want to share with others. The last few months I've been experimenting with manipulating where and to what degree color occurs in the finished product in my portraits. I decided this week to apply what I've been discovering to landscapes as well. Though we were asked to post five, I have a horrible time narrowing sets down. Here is as far as I could cut it down this week.

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'Round the Bend

Haunting

Death Before Spring

Winter Winds

And for a taste of the tropics.....

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~beth

War For Peace with Technology

I am back in the states now and I am working frantically on landscapes. At the moment though, every time I open a photo my entire system freezes and then crashes. Does anyone who has a Mac been experiencing this problem since the system update a few days ago? If so, if you've found a solution I'd love to hear it!

~beth

Natural Framing

Framing a photograph doesn't always mean preparing it to hang on a wall. Rather, one can frame within the image itself. This can be done with elements of the focal point, physical barriers within the image, color, or using the fore, middle, and backgrounds. Here is a 3 minute slideshow of examples of framing. I apologize for the graininess. I put it in the highest resolution and it still was fuzzy. I may remake it using a different program.

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~beth