I’m stealing a bit from Chuck Wendig when I declare that henceforth, Mondays shall be known as Macro Mondays.
Thus, in keeping with our new theme we proudly present for your discerning pleasure, a fork.
Tag: black cam
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I’m running behind tonight. So here’s a picture of some of the books piled next to the desk.G’night.
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Last fall I took a drawing class at the Worcester Art Museum. It was great, though tiring at times, given that it was three hours on Monday nights. One of the lessons was dedicated to perspective, which might have been my favorite.Since then, I’ve been conscious of seeing perspectives when I take pictures.
I pass this building often when out for a walk at work. It’s just a parking lot, but, like most buildings, it has corners that come together which provides an interesting perspective, especially when you’re standing up close to it. I also liked how the sun was hitting one side of one of those corners as I passed today.
Shot with the native camera app, cropped and centered in Snapseed, and converted to black and white using Black Cam.
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Sometime a quick shot grabs my eye. This is the set of mailboxes for the condo complex where I live. I had just picked up the mail, it was evening, I was on my way home from work, and the light for the mailboxes against the evening darkness struck me. There was just something about it that had a noir-y feel. Maybe I’m reading and writing too much hard-boiled detective fiction these days.
Anyway, I took the photo with the native camera app, imported it into Black Cam, gave it a noir feel, and cropped it a little.
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I’ve lived in New England now for about 18 years. The last few winters have been exceedingly snowy. I can say pretty much that I’m no longer a big fan of the white stuff. This winter we haven’t had much yet. But the snow didn’t really start last winter until late January, so I’m not holding out hope against the snow. Not yet. -
Today’s photo was a tough choice. I had another picture I took this morning that I wanted to post, but, in honor of the first real snowfall in the Northeast tonight, I though this one would be a better fit. It’s kind of a blurry mess, as night photography with an iPhone is a skill I have yet to master, but whatever. I like it. So there.Taken with PureShot, cropped in Snapseed, converted to black and white with Black Cam.
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I love taking black and white pictures. Sometimes they work sometimes they don’t, but the result is always interesting to me.Taken with Black Cam.
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I took this one while once again playing around with the macro lens. It caused me some problems at first because I couldn’t get enough light at the bottom of the picture. My phone kept throwing an unwanted shadow across the penny.
Then it occurred to me that this might make for an interesting black and white photo. The high contrast between the reflection of the light and the shadow from the phone gives this picture, to me, a slightly unsettled feeling.
This unsettlement, coupled with the subject, “E PLURIBUS UNUM” feels timely. The Latin translates into “From many, one”. This refers to the states, and how they all came together to form a single union. Yet, these days, the union feels threatened. Not by Obama, or Trump, or a whole host of other players each of whom as a finger in the pie. No, I find the union threatened by our devotion to divisiveness. You can see this on social media every time you open Facebook or Twitter. There, in your newsfeed, you find someone yelling about how their side is right, and your side is wrong, about how the current administration is the savior of all humanity or the devil incarnate. The headlines are getting snarkier, with things like “You Won’t Believe How This Caller Shut Down Rush” or “What Obama Is Taking From You Next.”
We must learn, or perhaps re-learn, that we are one nation, and that, to make this nation stronger, we must find common ground. This means that we must do what is unthinkable these days. We must “compromise”. This does not mean that we give up our values or our ideologies. This means that we agree to work together to get things done, that we realize that this country cannot be led by a “my way or the highway” mentality that has plagued the last two administrations, that we agree that to come together and be stronger, we much each give ground to the other side so that a common bond can be reached. The extremists in both parties hate the word compromise. They feel that it means “to completely surrender your beliefs to the other side.” That’s not what it means. What compromise means is to “settle a dispute by mutual concession.” Mutual. Both sides coming to an agreement.
We have our differences. We should. It’s what makes for great conversation and thoughtful discourse. Great things can come from conflict. But when we treat each other as the enemy, then we are no longer a union. We are AB UNO MULTI, “From one, many.” Let’s try our best to avoid that.
(Oh yeah, picture taken with an iPhone 6 using PureShot, macro lens by CamRah, cropped in Snapseed, and converted to B&W by Black Cam.)
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Winter is coming….Taken with PureShot, converted to B&W with Black Cam.
Scott Lyerly 