Yellow Rose of Yesterday

Trying to not be a slacker husband that I am sometimes, for Juanita’s birthday, I brought home some flowers. One of which had a pretty Yellow Rose.Juanita's Birthday Flowers_20180108_007Juanita's Birthday Flowers_20180108_001

One afternoon while on the kitchen table I saw light hitting the flower through the blinds and could not pass up this shot.

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Of course after a few days, even with the little packet, they wither and die. The reason I typically don’t get cut flowers.

On the other hand, It gives me a little creative outlet.

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and a little macro to boot!

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Road Trip and Ruins

Almost every road trip we take I can find some old run down building that I think will make a good picture.

Over the Christmas holidays we ventured to Dublin, Texas. It used to be the Home of Dublin Dr. Pepper until a few years ago. I didn’t get many pictures of the Bottling works facility but across the way we saw an old building. I am not sure what this used to be, but cool none the less.

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It looks like a water facility of some sort

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On the other side of the street again was an old Rail Road Depot

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I liked the symmetry of the three windows. Apparently the original architect did as well

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I am ready for the next adventure!


Pody
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Back to Black….and white

In the early years of my photographic journey, I had a film camera that only shot black and white. In my photography classes at High School, we had black and white film cameras as well. I was a lot less expensive to develop. I always wanted a color camera and when I finally got one, the decision of which film to buy, ISO 100, 200, 400, Slide, Kodak, Fiji, etc, etc. I thought of black and white but never purchased any film. Color was cool!

Now in the digital world I can convert any picture to black and white and they look really good. Most every picture I work on in post production, I will at least convert to B&W then back to color.

Some of the pictures here were taken several years ago.

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I can’t wait till our next adventure!

Pody

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