Non-Conventional
Photography is easy. Maybe it's hard.
It's easy because the magic box and its shutter do the work. There's editing and composition but you could certainly put your camera where someone else did and get (mostly, maybe) near the same thing. So there's a lot of copying going on with photographers (I'm guilty get off me!). The hard part of photography is breaking free of conventions and doing fresh things. Here is a collection of some of those attempts.
To the left is a swaying 1/3 second at f/22 of an Organ Pipe Cactus at Organ Pipe National Monument in southern Arizona. I tried to accentuate and meld certain colors in it and rotated it about 45 degrees to get an orientation that I felt worked best with the intersecting organs/lines (straight up and down wasn't working for me). I don't think I nailed this but would love to try again. All this to say, I'm trying to do new things because tripods have been everywhere.
I strive to be different and do things differently (which you could say could apply to anything in life. Steve Jobs said to 'Think Different'. So I did and got an Android). A few of the works here are ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) with something like a 0.4 second exposure, handheld and panning in some direction. Some are playing with the zoom collar while exposing. Most are pretty minimalistic. But I like it because it feels more like making art. All the borders are done in CaptureOne. I don't even own Photoshop.
Gaudi's Casa Batllo. Barcelona, Spain
Arenal, Costa Rica
Sunset in White Sands National Park
