RED

I've been in a visually red mood lately.  Something I can really appreciate happens when I transform shots into red shades, but I can't really put my finger on what that is.   Not that these shots don't stand on their own before the red transformation- a few of these I have already posted in other variations, and the rest of them that have been previously unseen I will still probably post later on in their original colors and/or black & white.  But these are definitely worthy of interest to anyone who might want a splash of red (art) on their walls.  A couple of these are actually QUITE large panoramic images that could be printed on some rather large canvases...

A link to the full slideshow (46 images):

http://lifeisart.ca/RedLandscapes/

The photo quality is MUCH better in the slideshow link above, but just in case, here's some samples:

New Series- Yellowed Landscapes

I ain't no Ansel Adams, but I do like taking me some landscape photos from time to time.

This is one of my favorite series so far, from a trip driving from Seattle to Wenatchee, Washington.
I've posted a few of these here and there in various forms, but here are some final versions of my favorites.  The yellows seem to get it just right, in my mind at least.

I do have another series of more spectacular shots I'm still working on from a drive through the rockies to Banff, but when you have 500 shots to work through, it takes a while to narrow it down...

(These pictures have been adjusted for the web and reposted, plus I added a couple.)

(click to enlarge and scroll through)

(There is still a light, off-color band across photos #5 & #6, that only appears once uploaded into Blogger that I can't seem to adjust for.  The original high-res files on my computer still are vastly superior.  I'll probably end up posting these somewhere else eventually anyways.) 

All caught up...?

No, I'm not sure what this means, especially since I'm definitely NOT all caught up...

(the baby and cowboy were real-life friends, as evidenced by the original photo, which I took when I was but a youth.)

Random Digital offerings

Because I keep churning it out, here it is.  These photo manipulations (and they are indeed all originally photographs of mine, even though some cease to look like photographs) have become my new way of doodling.  

Because Black & White pt.2

Here are the rest of the B&W photos:

Because Black & White

Photography is so much classier when it's black & white, so lately I've been trying to class it up with some B&W landscapes.  The kind you see on the walls in a classy hallway at your classy friends house.  I have a quite a few to post, so I'm gonna break it down geographically.  First here are some from the Boundary Bay area:

(click to enlarge)

All images © 2014 James Alfred Friesen

By the light of the HDR moon...

The Moon.   It was huge the other day.   I was driving home late at night and had to stop and get gas.  I also had to take a picture of the moon.  Luckily I had my camera and tripod in the trunk, and nobody trying to get gas drove over me and my tripod in the dark beside the gas station.   Even with just my 200mm lens I was able to get the moon with THIS much detail:

I took a few shots and made this scene:

And THAT's what it looked like.  "And now you know the REST of the story..."

 All images © 2014 James Alfred Friesen

The Eagle and the Flag

I've been seeing a lot of eagles lately.
I'm hoping to have a whole series to show at some point.  But I'm also trying to figure out what to do with some of the shots to make them more interesting.  
Like the picture I got of this cutie:

(detail)

So I simplified the background, and I liked the overall image.  It looked like something one might use to decorate something.

But I could't just leave it so simple, so I started trying other things,

And then it hit me, and I made this MASTERPIECE:

Because the only thing better than an eagle is an eagle wearing a pink captain's hat.  Am I right?  Probably.  Also probably right that you probably would want this on your wall, or t-shirt, or tattooed on your chest.  Probably.

(definitely noticing the difference whatever compression is being used to upload these to blogger-  I'll make sure they look correct when I eventually post them on my eventual for real website...)

All images © 2014 James Alfred Friesen