Red Reflection

This is the ceiling of my bedroom. I came in and noticed this going across the ceiling, wondering what the hell was that, and what was causing it? Looking out my bedroom window to see what was beaming this bright deep red beam of light into the place, I couldn't see what it was. I went and stood up on my bed and looked out my window to get the direction of the source, and discovered it was the sunlight reflecting off of a rear headlight of a car, the sun just hitting it right, producing this projection through the blinds, across my ceiling. Hm.

Waterside Contemplation

Downtown O, this young lady was writing something... moments of this, her looking at nothing in particular, deep in thought... to writing in a tablet on her lap.

Moon Over Buildings

Nothing of too much interest and/or worth here... just caught my eye at the time.

Fire Hydrant, Flowers

I wanted to frame the bright reddish-orange and yellow of this hydrant, against the varying colored flowers displayed in the background... this was the best I could get them without having other, distracting elements, also within the frame.

Another Fire Hydrant, Union Pacific Center

Here, it was just the color of the hydrant against the black marble, steel of the lettering, and grey of the sidewalk. In post, I did desaturate the daylight cyan-blueish cast on the sidewalk, wall, and sign, to make the hydrant be the only color element within the frame.

Sitting Outside The Redick

I have always liked the art deco architectural style of this old hotel in downtown O, but have never captured it on film. Still haven't here, but was able to a little bit.

The squares on the awning were where a Best Western (I think) signs used to be placed... don't know when they pulled out running the place, and who does now, or if it is just going to follow suit with every other blessed building downtown, and be converted into apartments/condos, etc.

Delice Exterior Still Life

The proprietors of this establishment would most likely not find delight in the fact that every time I see the name of their eatery, what comes to mind is the visual of someone sitting behind another person, as they de-lice them - plucking and picking of the lice off the other, like a monkey grooming another monkey.

Lion Head Fountain

I can think of two times prior to this day of shooting, my wanting to photograph this lion's head in my wanderings around downtown, but never had found a way to photograph it. Don't think this is the best way at all by far, but since this was the first time I had ever actually seen it's fountain working, felt I would just stop and try someway.

Instance Number 245,622 Where Having Someone To Place In The Photo, Would Be, You Know, Really Great

I seriously just want to hire someone to tag along with me when I go out shooting, just so I can throw them into a shot when I think a human element is needed. I really like this shot, but needs some thing, some body, some person within the frame also, preferably positioned in that patch of shadow to the left of the tree, below the lower right-hand corner of the window, framed in the angled shaft of beams around them... but, alas...

The thing that caught my eye to frame this up, was the soft warm glow of the light behind the glass block window. With only the 85 mil lens on my camera, I literally had to back up to standing directly in the middle of the street, in between cars coming, to compose and frame this, otherwise, I probably would have done my usual resorting of putting my pathetic self within the frame... I'm glad I didn't though.

Shadows

That's what drew me to this shot, the shadow play across the sidewalk and building, from the line of trees just outside the right side of the frame.

I should have waited an extra moment for the gentleman in white to come a couple steps closer, so that he was backdropped more in shadow, than the splash of sunlight against the wall like he is, so his white attire would have better stood out against the darker shadow... also, the other fellow in the background being a little closer within the frame... but as I have written before, I have become timid in my street shooting again, the gentleman in white was eyeing me the entire walk up the street, as I had this shot framed with my camera to my eye, and was just waiting for him to get closer, and then, again from it being too long since last doing any street photography, my shy self feeling uncomfortable, took the shot sooner, just so I could turn my attention away, like I was not really photographing him... I'm such a pussy.

Also, got a little too Impressionistic with the image in post.

Lawn Ornaments

The last monday morning of August, I woke up early (well early for me when I don't have to get up for work), at around six am'ish, with just the notion to go out and shoot. Normally, I leave for the Photo Lab at a quarter to seven in the morning, and when I am either walking the mile and a half to the bus, and/or riding my bike the six and half miles to work, a good deal of the time, the early morning light always entices me to want to shoot. But, because I am needing to get to work, I never take the time to really do any shooting, unless it's a quick grab shot I can grab with my little carry-all-around Point and Shoot.

So, this monday morning, even though I value sleep, and staying in bed as long as feasibly possible on my days off so as to bankroll as much sleep as possible to compensate for the lack I get on the days I do work, the hankerin' I had that morning to go out and shoot in the early morning light, just overcame me, and I literally just rolled out of bed, threw on some clothes, and without eating, grabbed the camera, and headed out.

Along with the wanting to go out and shoot that morning, what I also wanted to do was do the shooting at this particular part of town, which is not the most affluent part of downtown, just west of downtown Omaha... I just wanted to wander around there and shoot, for some reason. And also, the shots I was wanting to take, is shown here - facing and shooting into the rising sun. Why? You got me. Just did. And so here you go.

Morning Sunflower

I really don't know the whole, wanting to shoot-into-the-sun thing I was wanting to do this morning, where it stemmed from... maybe it was just being so early in the morning, and my not being really awake. Especially figurin' in, that I hate flash photography, and use it as seldom as possible, and only then as a last resort. But, woke up this morning, with wanting to go out and shoot, and shoot shots while facing the sun low on the horizon.

So, I exposed off of the distant bright sky, and then just had the flash illuminate the foreground. Here, got a better balance, as both light sources are falling upon the sunflower.

Door 703

This was along the eastern fringe of the boundary area I was wanting to stay in... I just wandered up and down, and around this twelve block square radius of a part of town, that again, is not the most well-off part. Why did I want to shoot around there? I don't know. I guess, just to be in an area that had it's own, different character about it. To show an area that never gets attention directed towards it, just quickly driven through and past... neglected. But, is an area where people reside, live, is the place where their home is.

Would again have been a better shot with someone in the shot.

Fairlane

Too much lens flare here. The 85mil lens, did come with a nice lens hood, but then I couldn't have the polarizer filter on, as I have a step-up ring on the 62mm front of the 85mil, for my 77mm filters...

I just like old cars, cars that actually looked good, cool, had character... even though this is a Ford, I was drawn towards it, with it's added character of rust... not a good shot though

Black Cat

Surprisingly, this little cat never noticed me until the flash went off, spooking it, and sending it running in the direction from whence it came. This in between a set of tenement houses that were, the majority of them, boarded up, with one or two of them seemingly being okay and not being boarded up, and people apparently living in them.

At This Time

This is around back of a taxicab place, I think, they had painted over windows, with one of the windows broken out. It was only abut a 9x9 inch window that was broken out, and wanted to frame this shot with the outer edge of the window framing the shot, then I would have been unable to fit the flash into the window hole to illuminate the interior, without it also being in the frame, so just stuck the camera into the broken window and grabbed the shot.

Now this shot is absolutely uninteresting and of no worth at all in any way whatsoever, the only reason I am posting it is because, I noticed in post, that the clock on the wall above the desk, reads almost the exact time that a hundred and twenty miles away, my little nephew was born, unbeknownst to me, as I had never even brought my phone with me when I left earlier that morning. Not until I got home, turned on my phone, getting the message from my brother, did I learn of it. A short time later, I was on my way up to them to welcome little Carter Michael into the world... the photos from that, coming in the next Last Roll.

Adjacent Lot Still Life

Obviously, I had run out of anything interesting to shoot. Yet another shot here though, that would have benefited by having some actual life in it... a couple people sitting in the chairs, relaxing and bs'ing... kids running around playing... something, somebody...