What a difference a week makes. The park is shooting out pale green, yellow and pink buds all over. Buds and shoots have wonderful shapes.
It is Spring at last in New York City. Not a very warm one yet. I photographed some spring flowers in Central Park while waiting looking for early migrating birds. I managed to get a decent photo of a fast moving little Golden-crowned Kinglet.
The Ice is melting in New York City. It went from 30 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit in a day or so. I wore my Spring coat and took a walk on the High Line. I love the mix of nature and architecture elements of this urban garden.
I assembled six pictures created recently to show at the meeting tonight. Two bouts of bronchitis has kept me indoors almost all winter which gave me time to create some photographic art. I hope to be out soon making photographs and birding.
On 1/26/2015 I had critique from the Portfolio Review at B&H Camera. I appreciate their honesty and will consider what they said. The review is designed to help prepare us for possible selection by the Gallery. It was pointed out to me that photographs, not Photoshop work on the images, is what they like. Blurs and other tricks done in camera are OK. For example, they like abstract images of trees blurred to look like a pattern and other in camera tricks. But I was told that mine looked like I used Photoshop just because I could. I disagree with their limiting criteria. I feel my interpretations of my photographs is my art. Can’t win them all!
Straight photography is not what I want to do and does not fulfill me as an artist. I think that if I just use my photos unaltered they will be like many other photographs of nature. I to satisfy my need to create art I enhance, draw and painting on my photographs to fulfill my vision. If it cannot hope to please everyone, art is subjective.
My next task is to select only 3 of all images I’ve created since last September I managed to whittle it down to 5.
I received the following votes from social media and email as of 1/25/2015 :
Thanks for your votes. Voting is now over. I will leave out House Sparrows. It was fun seeing which ones you all liked. I’ll show the winning three at B&H on Monday, January 26.
Tuesday was a freezing cold day. I only managed to take a few photographs in Central Park. Here are 4 edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.
American Robin, Central Park 1/13/2015
The contrasting play of light and shadow enhances natures design. I like the rosy fall colors.
Created in Photoshop. NIKON D750, f-stop f/10, exposure time 1/60 sec. ISO 125, focal length 105mm, and max aperture 3.1, flash.
