Blog Moved

Hello all, I've moved all new photography posts to thegreatgildersleeve.tumblr.com. There's some new stuff there, so anyone following this blog should now follow that one.

Liberty Park Ferris Wheel

Testing out Diana Lens with DSLR Adapter

Some test shots using a Diana 28mm lens with a DSLR adapter. Generally, it's a spoiled white hipster thing to do, slapping on a $40 plastic lens on an otherwise expensive camera. Results are OK, but I think I would rather take a decent photo and mess with it in photoshop rather than start out with this lens on. The first shot is straight out of the camera, the second is cleaned up a little, with a bit of a Polaroid color shift.

Black and White Studies

Vanitas #1

Waterfall Abstract

The Evergreen Lake waterfall, sudsy and cold.

White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly

White House Ruins, named for the white plastered room in the upper structure, is a ruin in Canyon de Chelly dating from the 11th century Anasazi culture. Plastered walls were common, but few have remained intact. This ruin originally reached to the ground, and stretched along the cliff wall, where up to 100 individuals might have lived, and the complex had room for 4-5 times that during ceremonial periods. The upper ruin would have been reached via the roofs of lower buildings and wooden ladders. Also of note is the large rock art figure below the upper ruins. It is not improbable that this pictograph would have originally been inside a room. Although this ruin can be reached from a canyon rim trail, everywhere else in Canyon de Chelly is closed to outsiders except Navajo and those being guided by Navajo.