Fireworks are among the most visually arresting spectacles of light we can experience. It’s that time of year when we anticipate the joy of seeing magnificent displays of aerial pyrotechnic art. Like most things visually fascinating, photographers want to capture and revisit the spectacle. But what’s the best way to
Photographer: Andrew Slater Photo: “Shapes of Transition” We can appreciate that the delicate frozen icicles on the dock and the iron are temporary, and will join the lake in liquid water when the winter ends. But for now … this image captures the concept of a “frozen moment in time”
Photographer: John Photo: “_JON2615 edited-1” This striking image is perfectly balanced. The key to its balance is the tree in shadow on the right side of the image. While the lit portions of the castle front are clearly left positioned, the visual weight of the dark tree form balances the
Photographer: Scott Stults Photo: “Fiber Optics” What is striking about this wonderful image is its power in simplicity. While there are only two key objects being photographed, they each appear more than once with their reflections being key parts of the overall image. The color of the light (and the
Photographer: Joe Photo: “Love on Ice” This is a wonderful study in texture! Superimposing the soft organic rose and its delicate petals with the cold frozen water is a great creation of contrast. The turbulent texture of the bubbles in the ice almost appear as if boiling. Added to this
Photographer: Ken Lee Photo: “Bracing for Impact” Having appeared in a few of the Photographer of the Day offerings, Ken Lee once again uses imaginative and carefully engineered lighting effects to create something striking from something ordinary. What might not even be dwelled upon if passed walking on the dunes
Photographer: Geoffrey Tibbenham Photo: “Aldeburgh beach” What makes this image so compelling to me is its simplicity; it’s lack of clutter and unnecessary information. We’re free to surmise how this ghost ship arrived on this open beach, and write our own narrative as to its story. I know that given
Photographer: Davor Smoković Photo: “Curak” When a photograph can evoke a story in its viewer, it becomes a successful communication. In this case, the technique of using a long shutter speed to allow moving water to appear as moving, it not only presents a living stream with a decaying bridge,
Photographer: Ken Lee Photo: “Air Romania” Part of the mystery in this abstract is created by the extreme wide angle fisheye look at a defunct aircraft, with its non-functional components rendering it inoperable. Part of the mystery is its lighting, as the sky is not daylight yet has some color,
Photographer: Peter Hickson Photo: “West Pier” I do have a love affair with black and white, but it is only partly because I learned photography by developing my own contact prints with my dad as an eight-year-old. For reasons too involved to be simplified in a paragraph, let’s just say
Photographer: Robert Armstrong Photo: “Oregon Bride” Yes, I have chosen a wedding photo for Photographer of the Day! A good photograph is just that — and it can be from any genre. If you’ve ever had to work in this discipline of photography, as have I, you can recognize that
Photographer: Allan Jones Photographer Photo: “Oil drops” Abstractions can fire imagination! This near microscopic view of oil drops in water is lit so intentionally, colorfully, and creatively as to remove any clear sense of setting or external proportion. As viewers, we’re left to muse as to what it could be;
