Channeling William Eggleston

I constantly am fighting the battle in my personal photography to be a generalist.  I love being a jack of all trades but when I am shooting what I like I all too often am just shooting flowers.  Nothing wrong  with shooting flowers but I don't want to be know as that guy that only takes flower pictures.  I look at lots of different photographer and William Eggleston is one that I really admire because he photographed such common everyday scenes.

I walked by the Aramark loading dock coming in to work and the light,  colors, texture and just the look and feel made me think of William Eggleston.  So here is to being a generalist.

"I am at war with the obvious." - William Eggleston Photo notes-  I shot this photo with a Nikon D2Xs and a  40mm F2.8 macro lens.  I am always a little taken back  when I get phot  os that I really like using equipment that is so old.   The fact is 8 year old cameras are digital dinosaurs but they still can take amazing photos.

Spring is coming

Monday morning this week.

Tuesday morning.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out. - Sebastiao Salgado

Frosty Grass

Thursday, I was filling up my van at the gas station at the corner of of Benton and Park and I noticed the field across Benton which is full of tall grass was also covered in frost.  After I finished the gas I grabbed my camera and walked across the street into the field and shot for about 10 minutes.  I got lots of photos that I liked but this was the one that when I saw it I knew I had what I was looking for.  I was using a Nikon D500 with a 40mm macro and shooting in b&w mode while shooting raw files.  Shooting in b&w and raw lets me see my images as b&w on the camera and when I get them to Adobe Lightroom it converts them to color because they are raw (.nef) files.  This was the perfect camera to have because of the way the back screen flips out so I could hold it really low and use live view to see how to compose.  I was able to get the sun inside the arching blades of grass to backlight the frost perfectly. 

I posted this photo to my social media accounts with the following photo quote.

"Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art." - James Bailey