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Another fine example of the amazing things hiding underneath your feet.

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I turned a corner in memphis and this yellow square was staring at me. I don't usually find such bold imagery in my everyday life so I took atvantage of the moment and snapped a photo. Enjoy!

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This was shot in a slim ray of light that cut through in between trees during sunset. You can see the ball of white that is the light of the sun in the corner there. I had other shots of this where the little flower-like things were more in focus but I prefer this shot over them for whatever reason. I just love how soft it is and I really think that it works with this. I have wanted to challenge myself to get away from these wide apertures some but they are just so interesting to shoot with and make photos using this style work in interesting ways like this photo (link) of the path that this was sitting off to the side of. I think I am getting weary of these wide aperture like photos because I see such a trend in using it as a crutch to make a nice looking image. So I guess you could say I have a love hate relationship with the idea... Part of why I love photography so much is because of all of the different approaches you can take to shooting something and its always great to challenge yourself to push it a little further which makes for a never ending learning process that I love.

P.S - those of you subscribed to this rss that don't visit the main blog, I have been planing a trip to Europe and am looking for some advice on places to visit, you can read this post for more. Any help/advice from you readers would be greatly appreciated!

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Just after the sun set during my hike the forest had an entirely different mood. Like it was suspended in time somehow with this dull light creeping in through the leaves on the trees. This wooden path is to keep you from walking through mud in this swampy area of the trail. I had a couple of requests to make this a desktop after posting it on my flickr page so here it is. Enjoy!

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This is a tree stump that looked pretty boring from above but as I knelt into the mud to look at my surroundings it came alive and I found this really cool looking mini-landscape hiding there. The black and white was chosen because it was in a really boring shadow filled light and I thought this helped add to the mood somewhat.

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I wrote more about what these were in the post below called 'surface' but to recap, these are tree stumps that were hiding below the surface of this lake. They appeared because the water level in the lake has been so low due to the lack of rain this summer here. I thought the way this shot was framed made for a great desktop.

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The lake I was shooting at was very very low on water so you could walk out onto the muddy floor of the lake. This also allowed for some of what was hiding below the water to show through such as a bunch of old tree stumps that were rotted in really interesting ways like this one here which had formed an interesting set of mountain-like peaks and cool looking arches. The sky just happened to be this amazing shade of blue which added a lot to this...

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This is the first of two shots I am posting of this moment and was taken before I saw the potential of using that little dead plant as a focus. This shot worked as well and I thought it would be nice to have a couple of versions to choose from. read more about this below on the post 'once'

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Sometimes shots like this present themselves very obviously and this was one of those moments. There is a really similar image that is also a desktop (above) called 'remains' and I think that one was taken before I moved in for this. While out hiking around a lake the sun suddenly began to sink down into the horizon and because this is near a lake that large clearing on the other side of these trees let in all of this amazing light that you normally would not see in a forest. So I started looking for interesting shots before the sun sank to far into the ground and this was one of the first to appear to me. I love these low angles on shots so I got down on the ground and started to line it up. The dead plant there among the leaves appeared almost out of nowhere as I got closer to the ground to shoot and provided a nice point to focus on to add something to what would have been nothing more than a shot of autumn leaves. So at any rate, here is one of a couple shots I took of this, enjoy!

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I was going to title this summer but turns out I already have a desktop by that name. I just glanced at my post count and noticed that this is desktop number 181. The first image on this blog like version of the site appeared in august 2005. Where does the time go? Anyway, after posting this on my photoblog I realized it would probably make for a fun desktop. Im sure at least one of you are wondering why I chose to make such a colorful feeling melon image B&W.. It just worked better I thought. It added a somber, relaxed mood to it which was why I shot it with the headphones on. As always, enjoy!

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Relax for a minute, take a breath, close your eyes, meditate do something to step away from the screen and give yourself a moment of calmness. You deserve it I'm sure...

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I went back and forth on weather or not I wanted to go with the black and white with a bit of color here and there look for this image and in t he end I decided to give it a go. It works well here I think because the shot was nearly white to begin with so why not go ahead and knock out the color all together? At any rate, I thought it made for a nice looking desktop so here we go! Download till your hearts content and your desktop is happy.

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On a quiet rainy day I had a wonderful chance to sit down and enjoy the silence of the rain for a while. Everything turned a wonderful shade of grey and light all around me became so subtle that I just had to stop and take a couple of photos and I figured why not shoot my incense burning. The box next to it is a chime which contains a ton of tiny little metal balls and 4 metal bars suspended in the middle. you turn the box upside down and all the balls stick to a pad on the top of the box and slowly fall down onto the chimes one by one. Such a wonderful, random thing and oh so peaceful.

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