Feathered Textures

Mar 082009
 

This week’s Macro Monday brings photos from my latest visit to Tired Dog Ranch and some time with their flock of chickens. It was cold, snowing and wet. Most of the flock took refuge in the hay barn, where they were happy to pose for me this morning.

I took out my Sigma zoom macro lens this time. I’ve also been making a point of using the full frame and not cropping my images. It makes me think more before shooting. I first learned photography with a Yashica twin lens reflex camera and did my own developing. Shooting full frame takes me back to that more thoughtful shooting just a little bit.


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Feathered Landscape

Feathered Landscape


chicken feathers

chicken feathers

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From my model days

Feb 222009
 

Macro Monday and some photos from my model horse days. Since the largest of these is about 10″ high, most of the photos end up being macro photos. In fact, documenting my model work got me more seriously into macro photography, as I had to collect equipment, set up a small ‘studio’ and arrange lighting. Click for a larger view.


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Entirely new schulpted neck on a Breyer Lonesome Glory.

Entirely new sculpted neck on a Breyer Lonesome Glory.


Breyer and Stone model heads on sticks - waiting to be attached to their new bodies, often not the one that they came from.

Breyer and Stone model heads on sticks - waiting to be attached to their new bodies, often not the one that they came from.


The Lonesome Glory - finished as a mare

The Lonesome Glory - finished as a mare. All resculpting and painting by myself


Details of a Marlena resin airbrushed and hand painted by me to a dapple bay appaloosa half Arab.

Details of a Marlena resin airbrushed and hand painted by me to a dapple bay appaloosa half Arab.


Here is one of her striped hooves.

Here is one of her striped hooves.


And the whole resin (sculpted by Carol Gasper)

And the whole resin (sculpted by Carol Gasper)


Face detail on a Miss Kitty resin sculpted by Laurie Jo Jensen

Face detail on a Miss Kitty resin sculpted by Laurie Jo Jensen


Another eye on a Nocturno resin sculpted by Kitty Cantrell

Another eye on a Nocturno resin sculpted by Kitty Cantrell


Sabino Arab mare that I did early on in oils. I believe that she is in Europe now. Resin by Pamela DeMuth.

Sabino Arab mare that I did early on in oils. I believe that she is in Europe now. Resin by Pamela DeMuth.


Alzubra resin by Debbi LerMond. A little stylized for my taste, but I loved the color she came out as.

Alzubra resin by Debbi LerMond. A little stylized for my taste, but I loved the color she came out as.


She had a cool skinny blaze too.

She had a cool skinny blaze too.


And last, because it is one of the few Stablemate scale models that I ever painted, a Spinnaker, sculpted by Sarah Minkiewicz Breunig. He is 3.25" tall.

And last, because it is one of the few Stablemate scale resins that I ever painted, a Spinnaker, sculpted by Sarah Minkiewicz Breunig. He is 3.25 inches tall.


And that may be one of the reasons that I wear reading glasses now. I no longer customize and paint models or resins. There is a possibility that I will go back to sculpting some day. Only time will tell. Well, how much time I have that is.

The Glory that was Skittles

Feb 162009
 

Macro Monday and a memorial. Skittles was an orphan, who was hand raised at Tired Dog Ranch. He was just coming into his plumage, when his life came to an untimely end. He was inquisitive and fun. Photographing him was wonderful, though it was sometimes hard to get him far enough away to take any photos. Click for a larger view.


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Texture

Texture

Juvenile Texture

Juvenile Texture with a tiny hint of color


And more texture

And more texture

I got this shot only after pushing him away.

I got this shot only after pushing him away.

Here he is, showing off to the chickens.

Here he is, showing off to the chickens.

Macro New Mexico

Feb 092009
 

Another Macro Monday and some more colorful images from a trip to NM last summer. Click for a larger view.


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Geranium

Geranium

Junk Yard Patina

Junk Yard Patina


Naturally Monochromatic

Feb 022009
 

Another Macro Monday brings this collection of photographs from my last visit to TDR. I love that they are nearly monocromatic. I briefly considered turning them into black and white images, but liked that there was a very slight shade of color to them, so they are staying as they are. Click for a larger view.

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Madrone

Madrone

Bench outside the Cowboy Cabin

Bench outside the Cowboy Cabin

Not really a macro image, but I like it, so I'm including it.

Not really a macro image, but I like it, so I'm including it.

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