PictureLongmont – Paul Casey Photography Art

Don’t worry be happy

The bright colors are what gets me in this image. Only a handful of the blooms are in focus because of shallow depth-of-field. It’s enough focus at the right spot to give my eye something to latch onto so that I can dismiss the softer, slanty stuff in the rest of the image. They say yellow is a color that gives feelings of happiness, and this picture does make me feel happy. Possibly because of where I live in this world. This picture could look good hanging on the wall in the bedroom next to the closet or a wall leading to the kitchen.

Honda CB

It’s the symmetry that appeals to me in this image. That and the blue-sky summer day. The corn is 7 feet tall. They used to say ‘knee high by fourth of July‘ but I’ve noticed the corn fields around here are way tall by independence-day. The thing about where I live is that the roads around here mostly look like this. The thing about motorcycle riding is that we like the roads to have some curves to them, so our tires wear down more evenly. This image would look good hanging on the wall in the garage or Rec Room if that’s your thing.

Hello you

Eastern Bluebirds live with us year-round, so getting a picture of them just takes motivation and patience. They say it’s cheating to photograph birds at feeders because ‘hand of man’. I get that, but also ‘who cares’? I like this picture of the blues at the feeder. It would look good printed and hanging on the wall as part of a grouping of bird pictures. I think pictures of birds look best in multiples, like a flock of pictures hanging on the wall.

People get ready

Let’s get on board this Hogwarts Express! This animated gif has a little bit of fuzz up at the front where the nameplate drifts out in and out of focus. I could be annoyed by that but I’m not. Things aren’t perfect in this world and that’s ok with me. The little bit of pulsing up front in this image gives the great engine a sense of movement as she sits gathering steam in preparation for departure to magical places beyond the station.

Be the rain

The rain we’ve been having this month. I remember “April showers bring May flowers” but this is March. March is for mulch I always say. Rain has often been my most favorite of the weather conditions being how it gives free water and cleans things up. But for it to remain a favorite it needs to have the discipline to mostly happen overnight, and in doses of 2 inches or less. I’m not complaining though. I still say that as far as the weather goes around here we have been fortunate.

In port

My phone camera captures some pictures as ‘live’ which has options for either loop or bounce. This image was saved with loop mode and then processed using Gimp to be exported as an animated gif file. The loop file opens in Gimp as layers but acts as a single layer for editing changes are applied to all the layers. The cool thing would be to print this to a glass or metal plate which could be charged enough to play the animation while it hung on the wall in my kitchen.

All the red

Cross country

12 years since we moved to Indianapolis from Longmont. There were more blue-sky days in Colorado than there are here but otherwise the weather suits us and it’s probably nicer here overall. I always feel like we just moved down the street a little bit since 3 of the main roads here, Interstate -70, U.S. 36, and U.S. 40 run right through both cities.

Family

Colorful fishing boats at rest in Calbuco Chile. We were visiting my sister and her family who operate a caviar processing plant there. This picture was taken using a GoPro camera in single shot mode. It does not have a viewfinder but does have a wide-angle view so it’s a matter of point and guess on what it will capture. For this image I applied a canvas filter because I liked how that looks with the subject matter.

Do the work

I like to abstract a flower by cropping and applying various filters until it looks like something that I like to look at. The process does not take much time because I don’t over think it. Just make quick changes using the crop or filter to apply, undo, apply again until I like the result.

Blackhawks

It has to be in Chicago. 1926 is coincidentally the year that dad was born. He is 96 years old.

It’s time

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

The forest

Look mom, no screen.

Road trip

One with the Carhenge. A unique attraction out in what seems to be the middle of nowhere in western Nebraska. We had been visiting family in South Dakota then took the scenic route through Nebraska on our way home to Colorado. Looking at this picture, I think my favorite of the cars used is the Pontiac Astre wagon perched up on a couple of sedans.

Close up

The rear wheel is in focus while the front wheel is not. This is due to a combination of shallow depth of field and focus favoring the rear end of the car.

A memory

This is a classic example of capturing a moment to cherish with photography. The cold air temperature as evidenced by their dress contrasts with their warm smiles. They brought a friend to life that day and if the picture had not been made what more would there be to say?

You could say

It was ten after two. Daylight savings time or standard time? The one walking by did not know and you could say with certainty did not care.

Hail Atlantis

It’s a feeling of endlessness that you don’t get when you live inland so every now and then we try to go there to experience it.

Gliding

We’d be on the lake dozens of times each year. Not so much for fishing because it’s so sensitive to movement makes it an unstable platform. But that very lightness makes it glide across the water with very little effort. We’d sneak up on flocks of pelicans to watch them run across the water as they stretched giant wings flapping to gain altitude to fly over us then circle around and land back on the spot where they’d started from. For these fellas it was the first time they’d ever been on the water. Their world got a little bit larger that day and I think the look on their faces tells it all.

Game on

Went to the kid’s basketball game last night. Game so close, nerve wracking even. They play their hearts out, so much spirit and love for the game. It was their last game of the season and was well attended. You have to bring your own chair or else stand or sit on the floor courtside. I cheer on both teams, clapping for the ones that lose the ball as well as those that drive it down the floor and make a basket. So much talent in those youngsters. So much fun to be there with them.