In My Back Pocket - Photography
'It is not what you look at that matters. It's what you see.' – Henry David Thoreau
Winter’s Wraith-like Wisps
Late on a November Saturday afternoon, wraith-like, wisps of wood smoke drift over winter’s fallow field near Fort Vermilion. A homestead’s woodstove produces an intense dry heat, welcome warmth in the midst of a cold, Alberta winter. The day, a first opportunity to work with a new prime lens, a Canon 50mm – f/1.4 lens; my wife has encouraged me to begin my work with it. The image is one of the first images with the lens.
Listening to – Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto, In My Place, Major Minus and Yellow.
Quote to Inspire – “The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.” – Richard Kalvar
I love this almost Japanese painting (日本画） like image.
It’s a beauty !
Hello Yoshi:
Thank you for your gracious commendation – you inspire towards all that is the possibility of Japan.
Lumens 🙂
Beautiful photo. Love the colors. The smoke adds so much to the photo. It would be beautiful without it, but the smoke really adds to the beauty.
Hey there, Maralee:
Me, too – the smoke … perhaps because it’s moving or because there’s an element of suspension where things ought not to be … something’s there adding to the beauty.
Lumens … 🙂
oh I love this … the colors, the smoke … I can feel the cold
Hi Laurie:
It’s neat to read that the image has the ability to involve you in that cold, cool day. I’m aiming try a couple of things with our Christmas tree and its reflection to see what might work.
Thanks for looking in. 🙂
Gorgeous!
Hello Robyn:
Thank you for your kind words. Here, colours of a colder November or early December Saturday afternoon reveal a backdrop of the sun setting in late afternoon, a farmer’s field and trees near what is Alberta’s oldest settlement – Fort Vermilion, I return to this image, regularly.
Take care … 😉