susan stone

Hummmm....no first time visitors, no public parking, and no just reserved for visitors CARS are apparent, they must all be at the local watering hole. And certainly don't walk on the nice lawn. I think maybe all the "rules" sorta scare Jesus off and his dunebuggy is parked down on skidrow somewhere.

Ditto, ditto, ditto.....you've taken the mundane and made it profanely interesting. A unique and creative way of seeing an everyday object.

With my strong penchant for the color RED I'm greatly drawn to the detail in this image. Someone with a flair for design has placed the red bowls and the red chair in such a way that it draws the eye back and forth within the frame. I need to get some reading from Jung to study the reason's we're drawn to images of windows and doors, it's an often repeated motif photographically.

Well Mike I think you're "seeing" well in B&W but also doing a good job of creating in color too. I'm drawn to this image because of the stark graphic nature of the points and the way they're massed in a marching formation.

I really like your color rendition in this image, the tones give it a dreamy sort of mood that's very appealing.

I see you're taking in all the "beautiful" sights while you're in Hong Kong! Very lovely portrait Neil.

That does it! I'm packing my bags and headed your way, I want to go along on these photo shoots....well it's a nice thought anyway. Tim this one has got to be my favorite out of your "abandoned" series you're working on. This one is a classic. I love everything about it; the toning, the drifting sky, the huge old tree fallen on the humble stone house, the scrubby trees struggling to survive, and the stories it evokes in my mind. Usually I'm full of suggestions but the only thing I'd change if I could would be to include all of the dead tree to the right, it would give the building a little more "breathing room" in the frame.....now I'm nit picking. This one should be hanging in a Gallery somewhere and I'd be tempted to buy it!

This one's stunning! I love the bleak starkness of the image and the B&W toning couldn't be more appropriate here. I like how the trees are leaning and slowly settling back to the earth from which they were born. Do you know how to use the Dodge and Burn tools? You could "dodge" a little detail into the dark side of the tree and the junk on the ground if the pixels are there in the original. And I'd be inclined to clone out that little bit of branch floating in the sky on the right. Now mind you these suggestions are just my perspective on an already GREAT image....I think you're primarily a "what you see is what you get sorta guy" and I'm a big fan of your imagery.

Wish I had some Jung here to read, my Sis says our fascination with doors and windows has something to do with our inner selves and I certainly think of them as the eyes to the soul of a building. I love how people are interpretating this image, and I find it fascinating as if something magical is flying out into the broader world. The lighting and toning are superb to render a fairytale quality to the comp. Is this the castle tower where the woman lets down her hair so the prince can rescue her? Your motion studies often give my mind a flight of fancy and they linger long after I've shut the computer off.

Your clouds are so "touchable"! Your toning seems to compliment the Texas landscape, it conveys to me what a fascinating place it must be. Stark and barren and beautiful.

My favorite bumper sticker and one often seen in these parts was...."Custer had it coming".

I think you walk around invisible in order to capture these great "street shots", this is just too funny. What a wonderful spontaneous shot, makes me want to hit the road to see the way other folks live and recreate.

You flatter me Chris, if you want to look at good cowboy pictures look up Jay Dusard, he's awesome.

 

It's the horses that have me hooked Janis....well maybe the cowboys a little bit too. LOL

 

 

The only thing Kim that's keeping me here right now is the darn economy, I'm just glad to have a roof over my head.

Sometimes our synchronistic wave length amazes me, I just left a comment on another shot from this series about it looking like it could be out of the book "Gone....", which I recently purchased, and I come here only to find your reference to the same book....weow weow! And I like your imagery even better than that in Fitch's book, I found a lot of his images a tad "static", yours are full of light, color, and wonderment.

Thanks Juha, it is a good life and I feel priviledged to be able to "cowboy" for a living in spite of the fact that I'm a woman!

Every year my Sis and I go on "walk-about" in the Southwest and we spent a couple days at Organpipe once upon a time....your image brings back good memories of long walks amongst the "pipes". Your strange color rendition is very evocative of the mystery of this place.

A firelit yin and yang...."that which produces all that comes to be"!

An orchid is "eloquence personified", a beautiful pink lady! I like the dark background, really lets the flower's beauty shine. And I totally understand your cropping dilemna, if I crop any of the image from the original file then I try to crop again to fit a standard format I wind up cutting out part of the image that's important to the composition. I try to do my cropping in camera so what I get is what I see and want, doesn't always work out and I do have a lot of odd sizes.

I loved the comment about them "walking on gold", I can feel the "calmness" of the scene, it's like the earth is holding her breath for a brief moment. I don't see a lot of Whitetails where I live, more Muley's, but I do see Antelope everyday while I'm out feeding the cows, I call them "prairie goats". Being out and around critters on a daily basis is one of my many blessings.

What a stunning rural tableau you've created....I love it! The old barn seems suspended on the fragil "arms" of the trees, as if they're raising it in exaltation to the stormy skies, a manmade sacrifice to the cloud Gods. Very evocative image Jeff....keep playing!

A scene right out of a movie from many years ago! Wonderful toning. I wish I could see the tree in the middle better, it has a story to tell for sure. Mother earth is a good friend of mine.

David, I hope you take to heart what Fred said, I know I have. When I clicked on this thumbnail and it popped up on my screen I just loved the image, truly. For one thing it doesn't look like a photo but more like an "urban landscape" painting, there's a renewed interest (always has been) in this style of "street" Artwork. Your photography is so similar to this genre of painting. Here's a list of contemporary young artists that paint images so similar to your style of photos that I think if you look up some of them you'll have a renewed appreciation of your own work.....Ken Auster, Tim Horn, Tony Peters, Bruce Cody, and Timothy Horn. David I want a BIG print of this! I think this is the best job of editing color you've ever done too. I just like everything about it. The lack of cars and or people really works for me also, it's like a prairie sunset with nothing to distract the eye.

Howdy Tim, a lot of these recent "ranch" shots were taken with my new little P&S camera so they're inherently inclined to the grainy side, especially in the skies, and now I notice that around the face of Dave (black coat) there's some "noise" going on there too (what's the "rule" on these to's and too's?). These saddles have a front and a back cinch, if a person was to snug up the back cinch first thing in the morning you might find your old cowpony a little inclined to buck a bit. You can see a small strap that attachs the back cinch to the front one (that is tighter), if the back cinch wasn't anchored to the front one it could slip back into the flank area and cause a real wreck. If we're roping something we tighten up the back cinch so when there's a lot of pull on the horn the rear of the saddle doesn't rise up. These two men have "cowboyed" all their lives. We're seeing a lot of the local big ranches, when they're offered for sale, being bought up by wealthy individuals and corporations that don't know the difference between a cow or a steer! One really beautiful ranch in this area was bought and subdivided! Thanks for the book recommendation, hadn't heard of that one, we seem to like the same "style" of writing so please give me more!

Our weather has finally turned around and the snow is melting and now we've got acres of MUD. Those cows do huddle during these blizzards, they even take turns as to who has to stand on the outside and take the brunt of the storm. I'm headed South again the end of April for another "look around" for a new spot to homestead.