That is, these are not from my daily load of shots of Grand Central/details on buildings/blurry shots taken from some moving vehicle/people’s feet. These were taken with the Canon AE-1 all manual fun fun fun camera of wonder.

I was going to keep these under wraps until I was ready, but I realized that there are shots I really like and want to share them with people. Or, should I say person. Well, ok, people.

You gotta click on these to get the full effect. They are coming across small. I don’t know why.

Enough with the blah blahs, here is the work:

I was going for an Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keefe 1930’s in Mexico kind of feel. I loved the shadows in it and the sort of off-ness of the whole composition. Some disagreed, but a friend reminded me that photography is very personal.

Here is a photograph that I think is ok, but a lot of people like:

And the pièce de résistance:

As soon as I saw this tree, I knew this was going to be special. I walked around it and took a scant three shots at an f8 and an f11. I like the small apertures because I like my photos dark. Ok, photography lesson over.