by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 16, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
Okay, we’re back to the whole eggshell-as-brainless-monster theme. I’m totally on an egg kick right now. I just think they’re so anthropomorphic! This setup was actually pretty complicated, partly because of the leverage caused by the drooling...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
I was processing images of a birch polypore fungus the other day, in the usual way, when I discovered that a small worm/grub-like insect was crawling along the rim. So I turned the image into an abstract backlit eclipse. The bug is at far right, crawling upward (and...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2020 | Photography, Product, Social Distancing
This was a very simple and fun product shot. The bowl and the soup and the background all worked very well together, and the lighting was very simple (it typicall is for these shots). Oh, yeah, the egg… I find eggshells endlessly fascinating and quite...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 13, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
My wife and I went for a walk on our town park the day before the April 9 snowstorm. We just wanted to get out before things got nasty. April is like that. I found this stunning example of Fomitopsis betulina, the common Birch polypore, on a fallen Betula...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 12, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
This was shot at the same time as the paint brush/ketchup shot of a few days ago. Double-dipping, as they say. I like turning things upside down, for effect. And then I added a couple of cheap stock ants that I got online. Admittedly, this is one of my less creative...
by speterlewis@gmail.com | Apr 11, 2020 | Photography, Social Distancing
I had to haul today’s subject out of the woods using my own two hands. Had Karen been wearing a backpack, I would have slipped it inside without her being the wiser. Anyway, I found this lovely chunk of quartz just off to the side of a popular hiking trail in...
