Just a quick post. Here is the photo of books that I took for the complimentary. It wasn't my favorite, but I think its neat that so many of us had this idea.

I just like this photo so I am adding it into the mix. This was taken on the same porch as the clay stove. It was taken at night with a long exposure. I did not use a flash, but the motion light above the deck illuminated the foliage. I love the contrast of the unnaturally bright plants against the dark trees and pinkish orange sky, and in case you didn't know it even tells you what we are shooting. These my friends are HERBS.

Here we go one last time. This was taken at dusk. It was just dark enough for the spotlight to come back on. I like the shadow that it creates. I like this shot because the soft light shows detail even in the shadows. It has a good bit of personality, and the fern stands out well shining in the spotlight.

Here it is again This time in the daylight. The hurricane was somewhere out in the Atlantic bringing Boston some rain, so the sky is overcast. This picture doesn't catch my interest the way the night shot did, but you can pick up more detail. The clay looks older, maybe dirtier to me. I think that he fern looks a little less impressive in this shot as well.

So talk about waiting until he last minute, but here they are. I'm back in Vt and have brought these pictures with me. My friends live in a community called Jamaica Plain in Boston and have a bit of deck garden. There was all sorts of fun things to shoot, and thank god, because it was pretty much pouring the whole time we were down there. This is a clay fireplace that my friend built. There was some ferns as well. I didn't try to use any light source, however there was a motion spot light above there deck which obviously was illuminating one side of the pot. I like that details in the clay that came out well. The shot was taken at night. I used a long exposure to capture all of the light that I could. I was kind of surprised at how light this photo ended up.

So I had all sorts of ideas for this assignment, but none of them were panning out. I spent the day hanging around train tracks and factories. I was sure that there was going to be some crazy example of the complimentary color schemes. I thought maybe two rail cars side by side, or some object jutting out of a grassy patch of ground, but it wasn't happening. So I headed back to the car. To my surprise this shot was right there in the parking lot. The red and green leaves curling through the fence compliment each other. The opposite colors glare off one another, however like the reading says, it just looks right.

In this picture I was going for the Monochrome color scheme. The sky cooperated and was different shades of the steel grey/blue. This is a sand processing factory next to the highway in Boston. I took this picture with a point and shoot camera that I've had for years while riding shotgun , stuck in traffic on an exit ramp. I liked all the angles as well as the bland color scheme. It is nearly as if it was shot in grey scale. I didn't plan on taking it but There it was, and here it is. I like that I didn't have to search for this shot. It found me and I'm glad that it did.

This nail caught my eye. I don't know why, but I snapped a shot. I Love the focus here. The picture shows so much more detail then I even saw when I was standing there.

I was walking over a bridge in the park and happened to notice this leave stuck in the current against this rock. I had my camera in macro mode, zoomed all the way, snapped and was =really happy with the way the light was caught by all the facets in the water. This shot came out much better than I had hoped. Hope you guys like it to.

Here is what was meant to be the rest of the shots in my collage. I was going to combine the nature shots with random in home shots, but I liked the nature shots too much so I divided them.

So I grabbed my camera and headed to this park they have been building in the woods. It has great trails that lead to this crazy shell of a factory smack dab in the middle of nowhere. I wanted to continue with the colors I had snaged shots of in my house and make one large collage, but there was so much to photograph that I had to make two. I found hints of fall color everywhere, both in nature and in things we had left behind. I was pretty happy with these prints.

So this is the other shot I took. Still the same handsome guy standing on a rock. Well I was playing with focus and I may have given a bit too much attention to the rock. I'm not sure. I do like how Ethan looks stark almost moody against the sky. Well this is my runner up, nearly as good, # 2.

There is a statue honoring the Green Mountain Boys in beautiful Rutland Vt. I have never photographed it before and thought that I would give it a try. I took alot of pictures, but found it hard to not include all of the surrounding realities. I like this shot because he looks like he is peering off of a lookout.