Just down the road from my home is this field with three crosses.  I’ve photographed them before, but keep going back to them.  They symbolize the most important point in my life, when I fell on my knees before Him and ask Him to come into my life and save me!  So the cross of Christ holds such deep meaning for me.  A Christian Church nearby erected these so at Easter members can take turns standing in to remember Christ’s sacrifice.

 

Photography Post Mortem:  I walked up into the field so I could get at very low angle to look up put the Crosses against the sky.  I used the Fujifilm X-T5 and the 10-24 f4 zoom @ 10mm (15mm equiv.) shot at 1/210th of a second at f 16 and ISO 800.  I deliberately cropped the two outbound crosses to keep the focus in the center one.

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

Today Sherelene and I drove up to Lexington, after church, to have lunch with our grandson Cade, Catherine and Clint’s son.  He was celebrating his 21st birthday and we didn’t want him to spend it alone as his Mom and Dad now live in Tallahassee.  I’m so proud of Cade, he is a Junior in the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky and doing well, in fact he made the Dean’s List last semester!  It was great to visit with him and his sister and our granddaughter Cassidy and her fiancé; Jake (below)!

 

 

Photography Post Mortem:  I broke my own rules for one day to enjoy family.  Images made with the iPhone 12 Pro Max!  But I did only make one frame of Cade and one frame of Cassidy and Jake!

 

Family’s one of God’s greatest blessings,

 

Peace to you in Him,

 

 

the pilgrim

 

 

Photo“Graphic”  –  it’s part of the word!  I was first introduced to that realization by John Shaw, one of the best nature photographers of our era!  This morning while on my daily trip around to see what might be the shot of the day, I saw a building framed up under construction.  I was almost past it when I noticed that the fresh concrete floor was cover with water and was reflecting the structure.  I went down the street and made a U turn and went back to check it out.  The dark blue shy with four matching parallel contrails and the graphic quality of the scene was too much to pass up!  To add to the drama what I thought was water was actually the re-frozen water from the night before and it was solid ice, even more reflective!

 

Photographic Post-Mortem:   I decided to use  the widest lens I had with me which is one of my very favorites, the Fujifilm XF 14mm f 2.8 R.  This lens is tack sharp and has very little distortion, it is small, light and has a clutch focus ring which is great for manual focusing.  The image was made on Acros with a Red filter, 1/5ooth of a second @ f 11 and ISO 400, hand-held.  I had the Film Simulation bracket turned on with a Velvia, Provia and Acros with a red filter.  Below I am offering the Provia version, and I think it illustrates that the color actually takes away from the graphics of the first shot, what do you think?

 

 

Thanks for coming along on this adventure with me, and by-the-way the project is really getting me ready for some more great shooting come spring, hope it is inspiring you too!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

 

I would call this shot an attempt at “Jay Maisel Lite”!  While out taking Chester for a ride, this morning, where he loves to stick his head out of the window, even at freezing temperatures, I saw this purple lock and had to give it a try!  Of course if Jay does this kind of shot usually his color interest is gang busters off the scale, and this is certainly, by comparison, subtle, to say the least.  it still struck me as an interesting color comparison with the greyed wood tones.  

 

Photography Post Mortem:  This was pretty simple, I rolled the window down, turned off the engine, after having pulled close to the doors, shot with a X-T5 and the 70-300 (around 200mm equiv.) at f 5 and 1/170th of a second – ISO 1600.  I just got the very bottom of my window sill in the bottom of the frame so I cropped that out. I was not perfect parallel to the door so the left side of the image was just a little soft.  A quick run through Topaz Sharpener AI fixed that with no problems. Lesson from this shot, I need to take more time on shots, several mistakes were dead obvious after I reviewed my one frame, if you are going to only shoot one, be careful, get it right, I promise to try to do better!  That’s why you do this, to get better!

 

I have a thing for locks so I have included a few of my past “Lock Shots” below, enjoy and have a great weekend, see you tomorrow.

 

 

 

So the greatest thing about this project is I  don’t know what will happen next!  Kinda fun!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim