I like how the very warm yellow contrasts with the cool green. Warm colors tend to move forward and cool colors reseed. This gives this image quite a sense of depth.
I thought a square crop would accentuate the radial symmetry of the flower.
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Spring Wildflowers—Early Dutchman’s Britches
I’ve been a little lax in getting stuff posted. Just been pretty busy lately, mostly with classes and workshops. I’ll try and get back on a regular posting schedule.
A couple of weeks ago Jim Wilson and I drove over to Bucks County to visit Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve. Well….either we were a bit early or the wildflowers were late. And I think it was more of the latter. The only things we saw was Virginia bluebells just starting to bloom, mash marigold, and a few early Dutchman’s britches that were. This is one of the few images I made that day.
I like the size variation symbolizing the mature and young. And I decided on a square crop to put emphasis the pair.
Beaufort National Cemetery—South Carolina Low Country
I thought that I would end this series of posts from Low County with some somber images from the Beaufort National Cemetery.
When doing research for this trip the National Cemetery did not make the radar screen. But as fate would have it we “discovered” it while heading to what I would call a marginal sunset opportunity. (A couple of working boats at a dock, near a restaurant, to be shot over the mash.)
When we passed the cemetery we could not resist the opportunity to at least check it out. The quality of the light and the presence of Southern Live Oak trees, with hanging Spanish moss, made it a location too good to pass up. We never made it to our intended destination.
Low Country Working Boats
Late one morning during the trip went looking for some working boats. Here are a couple of pix.
Contrails are the bane of any landscape artist.
Seashells on the Beach
While I was still on the beach theme I thought I would post a few seashell images from the recent trip down to Low Country.
When you are at a beach shooting sunrise, after the sun rises and the light gets too harsh to shoot landscapes any longer; turn around and shoot close-ups of seashells using the low angle of the light to accentuate the textures in the shells and in the sand at the surf line.
In this image I really liked the reflection. I intentionally left the bight out-of-focus shell in the foreground. What do you think, does it help draw the eye into the image and ultimately to the subject, the scallop shell and it’s reflection. 
Tybee Island Sunrise
A few days ago I posted a shot of the lighthouse on Tybee Island. Shooting Tybee Light was simply filling time. The real reason for being on Tybee Island was to shoot sunrise. Here are some images shot earlier that same morning.
Even though the surf seams calm all the sea foam is an indication that the wind had been blowing hard for some time. The wind also made it feel pretty cool although you can’t tell from the images, especially with the warm colors of sunrise.
In both of these images I placed the horizon line pretty much in the center. Many times this results in a somewhat boring composition. Here it works because there is interesting color and texture in both the sky and the foreground.
Another Georgia Lighthouse
Because of the flat light on the gray overcast day of the day we visited, none of my pictures of St Simon’s Lighthouse make the selects for the trip. As such I almost forgot about it. So I’m making this a two-for day, with a second post.
The light on St Simon’s Island guides ships into the ports of Brunswick and Darien. Brunswick is a big automobile port and Darien has a large fishing fleet.
Both of these images use a more conversional vertical composition.
A Couple of Lighthouses
During our week in Low Country we had the opportunity to photograph four lighthouse. Here are two near Savannah, Georgia.
Tybee Island is a short drive from Savannah and is home to two lighthouses. The most well know is Tybee Light. It marks the mouth of the Savannah River that provides maritime access to the city of Savannah.
The second light, Cockspur Island Lighthouse, is further up river and marks the south channel of the Savannah River.