Not necessarily the shot I was going for with these cool heirloom beans, but I like the light and shadow.
Pleasant Ridge Gallery holiday show
Mark your calendars for this year’s holiday show at Pleasant Ridge Gallery at the Rexville Grange, from November 22-25! As always, there will be lots of wonderful locally made arts and crafts throughout the weekend, and the opening night reception will have food, wine and live music (by me and my husband), plus a chance to meet the artists. See you there!
ridge and river
Cell phone cameras aren’t at their best used through a car window while in motion, but the light in Tumwater Canyon was so beautiful as we drove through last Friday that I couldn’t resist trying a few shots.
shot of color
There aren’t many leaves left on the trees after the last couple of windstorms, but the few that remain are stunning.
eggses
A friend gave us some turkey eggs recently, and they were so pretty I made sure to save two of them for photography purposes. I tried some shots on a mirror, some on white matboard and some on black matboard. I think I like the mirror shots best but haven’t completely decided.
shapes in the clouds
Looking back through my photo catalog, I found a few more multiple exposure experiments from earlier this year that I had forgotten to post. A blue sky with little fluffy floating clouds in it makes a perfect surreal backdrop for all kinds of other shapes. I like the drifting Welsh poppies and the shapes of the maple leaves, but the centaurea flower is particularly weird.
confetti
The day after I took this picture, we got our first real windstorm of the season and most of the leaves blew off the trees.
ghosts
Spent a little time in my new studio yesterday fussing with lights and getting reacquainted with the multiple exposure setting on my camera. The result is kind of creepy.
blowout
I know that it’s not considered good form to overexpose or blow out photographs on purpose, but sometimes I do it anyway, just because I love how delicate structures like dill seedheads attenuate and discolor against the brilliant background. I took these photos about a month ago, right before cutting off several umbels to make a batch of dilly beans.
more fog
I just can’t resist sunlight through fog in the woods. And we have a lot of it this time of year.
Jessamyn Tuttle 