I recently decided to go through some of my photos and set aside some of my favorites into different categories. One category was artistic. I have very few in that category, largely because it is not the type of photo I'm usually looking for. Of those I do consider to be artistic, the vast majority are of the natural world.
The only photo of a mountain is of the face of Mt. Russell, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. It is in black and white and has fun shadows and lines.
I have several of snow or ice.
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Portion of Margerie Glacier in Alaska. |
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Part of the Greenland ice cap outside of Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. I was surprised to see what almost looked like an industrial waste site. |
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What I like about this photo is the grainy ice in the foreground. That was my biggest take-away from our visit to the Greenland ice cap, how incredibly grainy and crunchy the ice was. |
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This is of a blue lake on the Greenland ice cap outside of Ilulissat, taken from a small plane. |
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This is actually a color photo of a tree in the Chisos Basin of Big Bend NP in Texas. It was snowing a very heavy snow that was sticking to the leaves on the tree. It was very foggy and cold. A very beautiful setting. |
I have a couple of trees, in addition to the one above, both taken on the Curonian Spit in Kaliningrad.
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Moss on the trunk. |
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A sea of straight spindly trees. |
I have several of sand dunes, which are great places for artistic photos (in addition to the sunset/sunrise photos that follow).
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I love the ripples in the sand in the Erg Chebbi Dunes of Morocco. |
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From Great Sand Dunes NP in Colorado. A very different color and design. |
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On a sand dune ridge in the Erg Chebbi Dunes. |
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Walking in the Erg Chebbi Dunes. |
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A Moroccan lamp in the Erg Chebbi Dunes. |
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Drinks and lamps in the Erg Chebbi Dunes. |
Sunrises and sunsets.
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Sunset in the Erg Chebbi Dunes. |
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Basically the same photo in the Erg Chebbi Dunes, but a little later in the evening. |
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Same photo, a little later, after the sun has gone down. Beautiful reds reflecting off the clouds. |
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Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico from Sanibel Island in Florida. |
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Sunset over Disko Bay near Ilulissat, Greenland. Here the sun never actually went down. |
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Sunset in Organ Pipe Cactus NM in Southern Arizona. |
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On a more playful note, sunrise in the Erg Chebbi Dunes. I was taking photos near a group of people that were having some fun taking creative photos. |
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The same group, but a little less playful. |
Finally, some photos of a less natural nature.
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Judy in front of some wonderful doors in Meknes, Morocco. |
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Hot air balloon in Luxor, Egypt. |
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Balloons over Luxor. |
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Looking at Jerusalem from the BYU Jerusalem Center. |
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A stall of olives in the Jema el fna in Marrakech, Morocco. |
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Ceramics in the Jema el fna of Marrakech. |
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Stained glass window looking through to a courtyard in Riad Larroussa, Fes, Morocco. |
These are fabulous, and I'm honored to be in one of them. You are getting better and better in your photography.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little embarrassed by some of them, but it is something I've just not thought about in my photography. The reason so many Morocco photos show up is that I was thinking about it, and getting up early and staying up late to take photos. Some of my later posts with other photo topics will be better.
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