10 years of photography: Patterns, patterns, patterns...

  A cool subject for photography is patterns. You can find patterns everywhere. During these ten years I've shoot quite a bunch of patterns and in this post I thought I'd share a couple of images with you. Only thing that's needed is a camera and to keep your eyes open. Just visit a grocery store and look for romanesco broccoli, just how wonderfully full of patterns and fractals subject it is, it just cries for being photographed up close. Or checkout rock surfaces, you can find some pretty cool patterns on them especially if they are covered in lichen. Closeups of flowers can be a rewarding subjects with full of interesting patterns and lines. Reptile skin, if you dare to get enough close can be a rewarding subject. Wasp or bee hives, fungi, just pretty much everywhere, here and there you can find some great things to shoot, just get close and press the shutter...

       

Don't try this at home!

  When lighting subjects, I prefer natural light. The sun is still the best source of light in my opinion. But there's a problem with the sun, it sets and you can't bring it inside (at least not very easily) . That's when you have to use some other light sources. A strobe can be good. Skillful use of a strobe(s) can actually look very natural. Then you can try to use what you have in your hands at the moment, household lamps, flashlights etc. or you could just give matches and a cardboard box to your semi pyromaniac father in law and you have the best off camera lighting that you ever can imagine...

Finally a couple of sunny days

  After it has been quite many cloudy and cold days, the sun is finally shining. Even if we were quite busy today, I decided to take my camera whit me and see if I could make at least one frame. I managed to make a few, and here's one of those. My favorite hill lit by nice warm afternoon winter sun...

A short trip to gods bridge in vratsa

   In hopes of finding at least one last snake for this year, a caspian whip snake, if possible, we drove all the way to the town of Vratsa. Lots of voles, but no snakes. The place were we went is called gods bridge, a natural phenomenon of lime stone. The lighting conditions were not the best as you can suppose in a cave, were the shadows mix with sunlight. A big test for the dynamic range of any camera. I tried to solve the problem with my SB-600 strobe, but you know, a tiny small flash in a big dark cave like formation... dark. So, anyway here's a couple of images from this interesting place...