Morning Walk Shots 6
Well, Ann’s back from her trip which means I now have someone to talk with while on my morning walks. So unless I keep toting the Q2MR with me (which I haven’t so far), I’ll be sharing images from the last few walks I did before she returned. In-between catching up with Ann and being really busy with work (and preparing for guests to arrive), I haven’t even really had time to develop and work on images, so I’ve had to push to get these out. As much as I’ve enjoyed this series, it’s made me itch to get the camera out into doing what we enjoy the most, which is to photograph in the landscape. Now to get get the bimobil registration and our license issues resolved . . . but enough of that. On to the images!
As you might suspect from the numerous posts since Morning Walk Shots 5, I’ve got a backlog of images, so instead of loading them all in one post, I’ll probably spread them out into a couple just to keep things moving along on the blog site.
By now you should be familiar with the bus stop near the old post office/municipal building. It won’t be the last time you see it. There’s something about this corner and the various elements (the streets, bus stop, reflective surfaces, shadows on the building) that offer me different things to see nearly every time I pass by.
As you can see from this image, mornings are starting to come earlier and earlier, which means that if I get out of the house any later than usual the skies are already starting to glow, and certainly, by the time I’m walking back to the house it hardly seems “dark.” Still, it adds an element of texture to the sky at times and helped play off well with the front of this recently completed house.
My walks during that several few days were fortunate enough to have been gifted with a half moon. In this image lowering close to an old monastery at the top of our hill.
And by the time I returned to the good old stand-by bus stop, the skies had lightened enough to start creating interesting patterns on its reflective surfaces.
They were interesting enough for me to take my time and make several images. This one experimenting with surfaces that can be both reflective and transparent.
As I mentioned, any real delay in getting out in the morning meant that there was a steady glow in the skies. As the weeks passed, it didn’t matter if I rushed my small espresso pot of coffee, by the time I approached the mid-point of my usual route, morning was coming.
That just forced me to start looking for street light patterns early in the walk, which I started seeing in increasing frequency.
And, on overcast mornings, there was some texture in the sky to make up for the fact that it was lighter and lighter.
So while I knew Ann’s return was not long off, I took advantage of the fact that the ever changing mornings would force me to look at different things that I might have previously missed.
Which is really what this type of photographing is all about. Seeing things in new ways, and then trying to make an image of it.