Fall is fading

Fall is fading away, only a few leaves still have color. I'm still loving the weather but it's about to get really cold and snowy. Booo. From the window of my Icelandic class. I liked the neutral smooth lighting, and the melancholy feel of the plant without much color and the white curtain.

I really liked the curved arch at the top of this building.

The business of the birds all overlapping and flapping is what really drew me to this.

The texture of the grass on the bottom, the red on green contrast, and the red berries matching the house color were what made me snap this.

More fading fall colors. I also liked how the yellow leaves looked in front of the brownish house.

Europris is a budget store, and I find the idea of "thug-life" in Iceland, and especially this parking lot, extremely funny.

The smooth sunglare and bright red berries were so relaxing I had to take a photo.

There was a fog out, and I really liked what it did to the tops of the buildings. In this one I like the layers and how they get lighter the further back, but all full of texture.

So vibrant and green. Particularly the bright green leaves next to the stump.

The sunlit juicy berries on dark green tree background were too tantalizing to resist photographing.

This lonely weimaranar was so cute.

The sky colors reflecting off the lake with the duck silhouette and tree reflections gave this a nice painterly feel.

More Fall colors

Sometimes the sunlight itself calls me out of the office. I saw how the sun was hitting these wooden support walls from inside my office, and walked out to get a good capture of it. I like the gravel texture in dark tones at the bottom, and the bright sunlit wood with it's own texture above.

I love the chaos, the texture, and the different tones. The line of green leaves leading in showing life, leading to a broken coffin showing death. I love the transparent glass too.

I like the zig zag of the beams with the vertical support jutting out of it. Along with all the texture of course.

The long shadows leading in to the woman photographing the goose in silhouette was too appealing, so I circled my bike around to grab a snap.

This one is really just about the colors. I like the green and red tree, along with the red and blue roofs.

I liked the blue to yellow gradient of the water, and all the birds to look at. The four swans together were really nice as well.

I really love the yellow tree next to the green tree, and the white wall to show that the colors are really this neutral, plus with a bit of texture. The one open window at the top is nice too.

I saw this bush from outside the cemetery and had to circle around so I could walk through and snap it. (I got several other good photos inside as well, so I'm glad I did). I liked the dark lines of the bush trunks in front of the low white wall, all leading up to the green and orange leaves of the top. I also love the green leaves with red berries in the background.

This one I just liked the green fern in front of the bust.

For this one, a friend's photo inspired me to line up something to be completely vertical in it's line. I liked this bush and it's colors, and that it was boxed into this wall, and I wanted to separate it from the background. I love the delicate orange in the leaves, and the blurry yellow bush in the background.

On this, I loved the yellow leaves on dark bark, and the line of the trunk seemed very gestural. I thought the yellow leaves moving in and out of the focus plane gives it some depth as well.

Fall is here

I love fall. The changing leaf colors is probably my favorite aspect, but the crisp air with sun is definitely the other half of it. I was walking through a parking lot and saw how beautiful the sun was raking through this bush, and I liked how I got orange and red and green all in one. I also like how the lushness of the leaves contrasts with the hard texture of the concrete.

It was a truly beautiful day. The long shadows falling across this pathway made me stop and snap.

These leaf color patterns are really pleasing to me. I think I might have to do some prints where they are both next to each other in a single frame. (the last one)

I love the contrast in this image. Lots of deep dark colors and bright areas, but with color too, even on an overcast day. The car paint has lots of nice shades of green in it.

I posted a night shot of this same scene before, but I really liked it in the daylight as well.

The mountain was really beautiful with the sun shining on it, but I've taken so many photos of Esja that I needed something more to make me like it. I was filling my car with gas when I saw these runners, and I liked the white arrow within the composition. Glad I had my camera slung around my neck.

I liked the soft lighting on the building, and how solid it looked.

When walking down the sidewalk and I looked to my right, I saw these bright red bushes and had to walk over to get a snap.

I like the layers and color in this image. There is a lot of depth and different types of textures, from the strong green with vertical lines of the cargo containers, to the red sign of the repair shop, the blue car on the right, then the beautiful mountain in the background. I also like the contrast of the layers, grungy repair shop in front, untouched nature in back.

Rainbow

We had a really intense rainbow the other day I managed to capture a few photos of that I like. This one is an extreme crop, but I wanted just the trees with the brightest part of the rainbow emerging.

This one is from right in front of my house and is a stitch of 3 images to get the full arch of the rainbow in. I love the dark clouds but sunlit foreground, especially since the leaves are changing color. It makes it so there is color in the foreground and sky.

Seems I am on a color kick. I was walking to the grocery store for some snacks (shows just how you can never know when a photo opportunity will show up) and this bush had so much color, but the lighting was very flat, which meant I could capture it almost like a painting, just pools of color. I edited in post to really bring out the different hues.

It's not really the composition of this that makes me happy, just the lighting itself. Sunny and crisp, my favorite combination.

This is my dog Oskar, he's Icelandic. Every morning he gets let out to pee and poop in the little square of dirt behind him. I love how the light filters through the greenery in this corner, I feel like it's very photogenic for a poop spot. I like that you can see his breath as well, it shows the temperature was a bit chilly.

This is the police department of Reykjavik. The back parking lot is surrounded by a fence of metal bars. I realized shooting through it would give me a very cliche analogy of jail so I did. :-)

Just a skyscraper. I love reflections, repeating geometry and straight lines.

The composition of this one pleases me. I also like the small construction worker on top of the containers having the same color on his clothing as the crane.

Sunlit foreground with stormy clouds always makes for nice lighting, but combined with the yellowing birch from the cold weather, and the red university library behind and I wanted this photo.

One from the dog walk. I like the heavy green top, the vertical silver bars, then the silver box in the center with stickers and details to draw the eye.

Evening Ride

More from random spots around Reykjavik. This first is my favorite, I am going to get a 40x40cm print of it. I love the texture, and the green leaves contrasting with the red. This was growing on a neighbor's wall, right behind their garbage can area. I stopped my bike and leaned over the wall to frame it. The roots of the Ivy are what really make it for me, putting the most visual texture in the uncolored area. Otherwise it would be too homogeneous with the leaf colors.

This one wasn't as successful as I'd like, but the thing that grabbed me was the soft wash of light of the setting sun, making this path look like a good area to walk down. It was nestled between a frame of tree leaves, beckoning you to enter.

This one I liked the gradient in the sky, the yellow full moon, and the green and muddy red texture of the foreground hills. In post processing I made it so the hills had a lot more contrast for depth.

The beautiful color of this house, and how the late evening light washed over it was enough for this photo to entice me.

This little house had so much texture, and I liked the blue and red colors.

I saw this truck while bicycling by and had to circle around. Texture just calls out to me, especially in combination with a strong color. The truck was parked on a slant, making the perspective of the background a bit weird. Just look at those scratches! I also like how the back of the truck forms a strong foundation at the bottom of the image, going completely across it.

Just a random building. I liked the white contrasting with dark grey and the way the sun cut across it.

Downtown, the halgrimskirkja. Every time I pass this intersection it feels photogenic to me. I like how the car coming down the street lights it up from the wetness of the street. The low blue lighting also makes me happy.

God-rays always make me stop and stare, and I liked the haziness of the horizon.

Blue and green themes always make me happy, especially when they are subtle and natural. This is actually a sewage treatment outlet, but I like the soft graduated grassy hill, the dark concrete, and soft sky.

The door to a hotel. I like the brassy metal, the holy wall, and the reflections off the glass. Also the little lamps on the ceiling.

The middle of Tjordninn (the pond) behind city hall. The soft sky pattern, and the numerous seagulls on the island in the middle were the focus of this image.

View from my back yard looking up. Green, red and blue. :-)

The house across the street has trees that are changing color, and I really liked the framing and texture of all those colors and surfaces.