Last Saturday, we had a Christmas Party that Angela hosted for her meditation group. After dinner, David sang a few songs while playing his guitar.
David, Playing Guitar
After David played, he put his guitar back into its case. I made this image of the bridge.
David’s Guitar
Both images were made on iPhone and processing with the “Dramatic B&W” app.
Last month I attended Alain Briot’s photography workshop in Navajoland. One venue we photographed was Monument Valley. I’m still busy processing images from the workshop. Here is one panorama that I made.
Monument Valley Panorama
This image was made with the “See This” app on an iPhone. The app can create different styles of panorama; this one is a David Hockney style panorama.
This weekend I attended the Fine Art Photography Summit in Page run by Alain Briot with Jeff Schewe as guest instructor. We made images at Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon. Here is a sample of images that I made. The following image was made after the sun struck the canyon walls to be reflected in the Colorado River.
Reflections In Horseshoe Bend
Looking down into the canyon, I found this simple composition that showed a reflection of the sunlit canyon wall in the river.
Reflection In The Colorado River
During a visit to Antelope Canyon, I made an image of the slot canyon. During processing, I attempted a black and white conversion that revealed the glowing sandstone.
Antelope Canyon Glow
Here is another simple composition in color.
Antelope Canyon, No 2
The light at this time of the year is really amazing. When going to work, I passed by the Arapahoe Station buildings every day. Nearby buildings are reflected in the windows. I moved around until the reflections were fragmented into several pieces.
Chopped Building Reflection
Later that day, I was in Lodo for one of the Meetup groups. The alley behind Casselmann’s has several murals. Recently they must have been refreshed with new images.
Lodo Alley Mural
Farther along the alley, the artist made a really striking image of the lady and the flower.
Lady And Flower Mural
The fountain at Arapahoe Station changes it height during the course of the day. Later in the week, the fountain had reached its peak height. I noticed reflections of the main fountain in the water at the base of the fountain and made this image.
Fountain Reflection
As one moves around the fountains, the adjacent buildings are also reflected in the water at the base of the fountain. I like the abstract quality of the reflections in the image below.
Abstract Building Reflections
The north-facing front of the Ciber building is in shadow at this time of the year. However, the lawn and hedgerow outside is in full sunlight. This is really very striking in the infra-red image below.
Front Of Ciber Building
Finally, I made an image of the Tuscany Plaza building with avenue of trees lit up in their fall colors. This weak the moon has been waning. The crescent of the opening in the building reminded me of the phase of the moon for this week.
Trees At Tuscany Plaza
Eyeballs For Sale, Eyeballs For Sale! This lady was selling some really tasty snacks. Eyeballs, fingers and brains.
Eyeballs For Sale!
There were just so many zombies all around.
Zombie Pair
This Umbrella Corp officer was in light-sword combat with Darth Vader. They held their pose for a long time to let us photograph.
Hold That Pose
She was too late to be attacked by this zombie. Yum!
Yum, Tasty Umbrella
I like your hat.
I Like Your Hat
Some people just had too much fun. Not enough blood around here!
Having A Fun Time
Some people were totally oblivious of events around them. They just did not care like these chess players.
Chess Players
Head out to the Illuminate Workshops meetup group to see some more images.
Elvis was there too!
Zombie Elvis
This zombie was deep in conversation before I stopped for an image. He stopped in mid sentence while I made this image and then continued his sentence from where he left off!
Interrupted Conversation
Some zombies had some really elaborate hair styles.
Zombie Hair Style
The colorful jester was infected with the zombie virus.
Zombie Jester
This lady was giving blood… Z-type!
Applying Blood
I always like to capture bystanders at these events. This onlooker was surprised when I made this image.
Surprised Onlooker
I really liked the gaze as this zombie looked at the camera.
Zombie Gaze
More to come in part 3.
Yesterday I joined the Illuminate Workshops meetup group for the Annual Denver Zombie Crawl. After meeting, we headed to 16th Street. A band was playing to zombies and everyone alike. Here we got to meet one of the first zombie couples, chained together.
Chained Together
Even this kid got infected with the zombie virus.
Zombie Child
Lots of zombies were on hand to spread the virus.
Making Up
All sorts of people were infected with the virus, as was this bowler-hatted guy.
Zombie With Bowler Hat And Pipe
And don’t forget the Umbrella Corporation who were out to exterminate zombies.
Umbrella Corporation
Zombies even have smart phones.
Even Zombies Have Smart Phones
Mmmm. I wonder if that is a Sprint phone?
More Zombies
This zombie had some great pants. Somehow I don’t see much blood on this one!
Zombie Legs
On to part 2…
October 5th was the Worldwide Photowalk. After arriving late, and missing the start of the walk, I met a fellow photowalker, Forrest. We made our way to the Lodo skateboard park. We found a great location where the skateboarder’s were catching plenty of air right in front of us.
Caught Some Air
In between images, we were chatting about photography. Forrest had moved from Oregon to Denver the previous week. The sun was setting as we were photographing. One skateboard rider had caught some air, and jumped to our right, leaving his skateboard in the setting sun (below).
Skateboard, Left Behind
I was lucky to capture the image below with my Fuji X-E1. I pre-focussed on the lip of the bowl below the skater. Then I waited until he reached the peak of his movement with his arms stretched out like a bird.
Lodo Skateboarder
Shortly after, the remainder of the photowalkers arrived at the skateboard part. I headed over the find our leader Lincoln Phillips to become acquainted. During our conversation, skaters were busy in the bowl behind us. I stopped to make this image of Geoff climbing the lip of the bowl.
Skateboarder Geoff
Leaving the skateboard park with the photowalkers, Forrest and I passed this alley adjacent to this condemned building.
Condemned Building
During meetup groups over the last year or so, we had done night photography in the Highlands Bridge area. I took the opportunity to make another image of National Treasure next to the bridge.
Highlands Bridge And National Treasure
For the final image, I set up the camera on the tripod and waited for some bridge walkers to approach. At the opportune moment I released the shutter for a multi-second exposure to capture their ghosts.
Ghosts Of Highlands Bridge
We made our way to the Colorado Photographic Arts Center gallery. They had just finished the opening of an exhibition earlier that evening. The Director, Rupert, gave a brief overview of the center for us. That completed the last event on the Photowalk.