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Maple Seed

Posted by mark on Jul 03 2017 in Botanicals

Getting back to making some new botanical photos. Here's a maple seed that I picked up off  the sidewalk a few months ago - still has a trace of green in it.

Maple Seed
Maple Seed
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Down in Indiana

Posted by mark on Jun 30 2017 in Midwestern Landscapes
Down In Indiana
Down In Indiana

Spent the past few days down in Indiana - beautiful country, especially in the summer. I was looking in east here in a cemetery in Jay County. A thunderstorm was coming up from the west. 

Update (7/5) - still thinking about this one - an alternate crop:

Down In Indiana (alt crop)
Down In Indiana (alt crop)
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"Botanical Studies" Exhibit

Posted by mark on Jun 14 2017 in Exhibits
Wild Dogwood
Wild Dogwood

Botanical Studies - a new show at the Carnegie Center for the Arts in Three Rivers, Michigan. This exhibit features 18 close-up, pixel-shifted, focused-stacked photos of plain ole ordinary plants. The kind you have sitting on your desk or growing in your yard. I think the playbill for the exhibit summarizes it all:

The photographs in this exhibit are studies of plants. The subjects include dried seed pods and tendrils, florist flowers, and house plants. Some were living, some were dead, some were dormant - but all manifest a richness of form, structure, and texture.

The inspiration for this project is the work of early 20th century photographer Karl Blossfeldt. His close up photographs of plants presented their subjects with startling realism that dramatically expressed their natural structures.

While inspired by Blossfeldt's works, the goal of these photographs is to explore plants using contemporary photographic techniques. Among the techniques employed, these studio photographs utilize "focus stacking," a process by which multiple images are combined to overcome the limitations of depth-of-field and refraction that challenge high magnification photography. On average each image presented here is a composite of 62 separate exposures.

The show runs from June 18 - August 5 with an artist reception on June 18 from 2-4 and the Carnegie Center for the Arts, 107 North Main Street , Three Rivers, Michigan. Lots of great work at the Three River's Carnegie during this time including "Time Passing" - mixed media by Kalamazoo area artists, "Postcards from Greece" by Melody Allen and more. 

Another image from the show - Dandelion:

Dandelion
Dandelion

 

 

 

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Hood Ornaments

Posted by mark on May 31 2017 in Travel

Visited the Gilmore Car Museum today and had a great time wandering through the old cars, taking snapshots of hood ornaments and other details. A very fun place to visit - a world class collection of vintage autos.

Here are some photos of hood ornaments - I should have noted the names of the cars but didn't think about that:

Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament
Hood Ornament

 

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"Beyond Boundaries" - Signature Artists Group Show

Posted by mark on May 30 2017 in Announcements, Exhibits

Just dropped off three pieces at the Battle Creek Art Center for the Signature Artists group show "Beyond Boundaries."  

The show will run from June 4-24 at the Art Center of Battle Creek, 265 E Emmett St, Battle Creek, MI 49017. Artists' Reception will this Sunday, June 4, from 2-4PM.

I interpreted "boundaries" as the technical things that you do to make photographs - aperture, shutter speed, etc. - so to get beyond them I broke out the Holgas which don't let you do much with settings. And then I tried to take photos that included boundaries - like the a ditch or the fog lines on a highway. Shot in March / early April.

Here are the three pieces I entered for the show, plus the post card / annoucement:

Ditch
Ditch
Beneath the Branches
Beneath the Branches
The Way Forward
The Way Forward
"Beyond Boundaries" - Signature Artists Group Show

 

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Dandelion

Posted by mark on May 06 2017 in Botanicals

A dandelion from my yard:

Photograph of a Dandelion flower
Dandelion

58 stacked images. Pentax K1 in pixel shift resolution.

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Dogwood Flower

Posted by mark on Apr 25 2017 in Botanicals
Dogwood Flower
Dogwood Flower

In the woods today - more of a wild specimen than a garden plant.

 

Studio shot, 35 stacked image, Pentax K1, DFA 100mm macro, pixel shift resolution.

 

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Cherry Blossom

Posted by mark on Apr 23 2017 in Botanicals
Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom

Closeup of a Kawanzan cherry bloom:

 

1.75x lifesized. Pentax K1, DFA 100mm macro on extension tubes, 68 stacked images combined in Zerene stacker.

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