Hey this isn't the most beautiful of pictures but I just wanted to show you how fast the weather can change around here. This was taken just one day after the picture below in about the same spot. I thought this picture just looked cool when it is next to the one below.
I couldn't pass up taking this picture yesterday looking out from my studio. It had stormed off and on throughout the day with several tornado watches and warning going on and off. The tornado siren around us even went off several times after this was taken. And as a tribute to Kansas weather, it snowed the next day. In this picture I just loved how the sun lit up the wet Campus landscape, making it seem more like early spring after the snows melted then late fall.
I will give you guys a nice picture of Hale Library at night just before I leave for thanksgiving break. I took this one about a week ago on my trip around campus. It is a photomerge of at least 3 pictures that I put together on photoshop. Unfortunatly, because of the long length of this picture, you guys can't see the picture as well as I would have liked but at least you get the idea. Well have fun and enjoy!
Today I go for a simplistic approach in the composition. This is a honeylocust tree at Marlatt Park that I thought looked cool against the blue sky backdrop. I called it the thorny tree because the thorns on these trees can easily get several inches long! This picture doesn't really show you the thorns but trust me, they are dangerous looking. Well I must get back to work so I will now leave you to stare endlessly into the complex branch structure of the tree.................
Back at Marlatt Park I bring you a picture that I took while walking and through random luck it came out with a really interesting composition. I like how the center tree is straight up and down but the horizion line is really tilted. It kind of make you want to tilt your head to see it correctly. The picture I am showing you is completely unedited and uncropped so this is how it cam from the camera raw.
We go back to Japan for todays picture. This picture was taken in the city of Kitakyushu in the moat between the Castle and the riverwalk. As you can see, it was sprinkling that day but it wasen't very hard so the riples in the water were still distinct in their shape. I tried to crop/balance this picture so that the lilly pads didn't cover up all the open space outside of the flower's area. I think my final composition works out well with the three spots of open water balancing each other out. Well thats it for today so enjoy!
The real question is: Is the tree leaning or are we leaning?
If you look closely enough at the picture you might notice that this building had 2 different facades on it. The front facade is a neo-classical limestone facade while the other one is like an old 1900 style brick facade. I really like this picture because it brings out the hidden (and to me, forgotten) brick facade that normally is not noticed. If I diddn't know the context of the building I would think this building belongs in a major city and was once a train station or old bank or something. Another way of looking at this picture is thinking that at night the long lost spirit of the origional building comes alove in this one spot. Its like the building's ghost.
I present you a beautiful view of out Historic Farrell Library. What I like most about this picture is watching the light come through the windows from inside the building. I took this picture while going around campus taking pictures for my planning project on analysing the urban design of campus. well thats in for now but I will probably post more pictures from the walk since I took over 600 during my excursion around campus.
For today's picture I bring you back to Marlatt Park. There are a few things that I would like to change about the picture like the sky but that was out of my control that day. I really enjoy going to the park because of the variety of plants and grasses found there. This picture was taken at the southern end of the park where some old fences border the park and keep the park separate from the neighboring lands. This composition was inspired by a picture Ethan used last year to draw in our design graphics class. Well that's todays picture so enjoy!
Hey this is my dog Totoro when she was a puppy. After looking through my pictures of her I think this in some way shows her personality. She is now almost 2 years old but still just as soft and playful as she looks in this picture. I have tons of other pictures of her that look just as cute but I won't flood this site with those for diversity sake.
Everything in Japan is small............except traffic cones! This is not a composed image but I thought that something like this should be posted since it is really cool I think.
Well I am posting this one because I enjoy the color and texture of the pucture. This was taken right where I park my bike every day and I loved the variety of colors coming from just one tree. As a total composition they is not the best picture but it does have some rich textures to it.
Well guys it's Fall now and the trees are really starting to show it. Instead of giving you a shot of all the trees changing color with the wind blowing I am giving you this picture. When I took it I thought it represented more of what fall really means. The quiet brown leavs littering the ground with the warm yellow light tells us that summertime is long gone and winter is on the way. I believed that night shows this better then daytime since you can't see the other green plants at night.
Hey this is not a photograph as you can easily tell but this is what I quickly created in a few hours in a program called SketchUp. It is part of my most recent design and it is from the viewpoint of a camper's window travleling along the highway. I am not using this view in my final presentation but I will have one similar to it from out on the plaza. SketchUp is made to create quick 3D models of things and I find it quite usefull when showing people spaces.
I put together this one last year from an old picture I took 2 or 3 years ago. I called i t invasive beauty because these beautiful plants are extrememly invasive in warmer climates and cause some countries to spend millions removing the plant from waterways. In St. Louis is is ok to have them because the winter will kill them off so it never becomes a real problem. Well that is all for today's post.
