Came across a huge grouping of California Poppies to start of the trip.  All this and I forgot my macro

At this top of the hill was this great tree.  Made of a great conversion to Infrared B&W

Great mailbox about 2 miles from the flowers.  I can’t believe all the stuff I was finding on a 5 mile stretch of road this point.

Found this guy hanging out at the barn below.

It was a great trip and this wasn’t all I caught.  Over at the Life @ 50 project you can see what else I caught and I have a few more posts coming up in the next few days to show off a bit more of what I found.  Had a lot of fun with an old tractor I found that I did a Single shot HDR on.

Images Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 and 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film

First on the drive today was a boat that I am pretty sure hasn’t seen water in a very long time.  Funny thing as I was shooting the theme from Gilligan’s Island started going through my head.  As you can see Spring is almost here (which sucks) but the flowers really are starting to look nice.  Not too many varieties have blossomed yet, but give it a week and I bet you there will be flowers on this blog.

This shot I have to say is one that I have been wanting for  a while but never went and shot it.  A couple of reason for that but after reading Mark’s posting the other day about Turning a Miss into a Make.  I didn’t want to miss the opportunity this time so I got out the big glass so i could take the shot, fearing that if I didn’t do it, sooner or later that truck would be going.

The Sun started to go behind more clouds giving the appearance of almost being sunset.  On my way back to the house I was looking in my Side view mirror (since that got me my shot for the Life at 50 project for this past week)  as saw this big backlit windmill spinning.  Finished in Silver Efex Pro for more dramatic look.

Good Times

Windmill and Boat Captured with 1D Mark IIN 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Truck Captured with 70-200f2.8 with 1.4X extender on Lexar digital film

So while I couldn’t get in a whole lot of time in shooting I did come away with some fun stuff.  The main goal was to focus on shapes and lines for this quick project.  Here a few of what I captured…

For 45 minutes it was a good time…

So following with the theme of the last post about taking the time to stop and take a look at the world around you.  This post is more about, don’t think to yourself that just because you have only a few minutes to shoot that you can’t get some great and fun images.  If you don’t get to shoot you will never know what you are capable of…

So while I was in New Mexico, I decided to take a bit of time and look down.  While I didn’t find as much as I would have liked I did find a few things that were fun to shoot.

First up with this old water meter cover that while it didn’t do anything for me in color worked created with a bit of Silver Efex Pro’s Holga filter added, with a few modifications of my own thrown in.

The 2nd, and slightly more odd is this old set of can opener keys from (at least what I can figure) is the remnants of an old sardine can that was laying on the porch floor boards of an old house.

So while I didn’t find much on my little self project in New Mexico I leave you with this thought.  Make sure you take time to really see what is going on around you in the world.  You may pass by the photo of a life time if you don’t stop and take a look around.  With our busy lives these days it isn’t always an easy thing to do, but I encourage you to try…

Images Captured with 1D Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 on Lexar digital film