Pictorial (sic) pictures are judged by their artistic quality, and any subject or process is acceptable. Often people will submit the best of their nature, travel, creative pictures as pictorial.
We took the night trip to Alcatraz one Sunday when there was a forecast that implied a decent sunset. I found a place to shoot the sunset behind the Golden Gate Bridge, but I like this angle better.
This was my only successful shot of aspen. I learned that you don't shoot them in bright sunlight because there is too much contrast. Shot at Big Tesuque near Santa Fe.
I've been trying to shoot this barn near Highway 1 just south of Carmel for several springs, but was never able to get high enough to include the yellow flowers behind it (there is a pretty thin band of them in front of boring weeds.) This time as I drove by I found a spot where I could get a clear view. I don't understand why I couldn't do it before - either some intervening brush has been cleared or I was just stupid before.
Seen in Capitola, on the California coast. I had to straighten the window on the left and do a little cloning to get it to look right.
Bellas Artes in San Miguel is much better known than the Casa de la Cultura although, in my opinion, it is much less photogenic. For this image I used HDR and cloned out a large, distracting, white sign. I also brightened the painting at the far end.
In Burano, by a small garden in one area where the colors aren't as bright as usual. It was facing out of the picture but with the help of Photoshop I persuaded it to turn around.
I was trying to emulate the Greek photographer George Meis, and this was one of the first shots like his that I could find. The first time I scanned it the door on the upper right looked completely black. I then scanned a lighter slide of the scene and, with some work, got the door to show up properly.
Seen in Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia. I had to do some work removing wires from the top of the picture
Our instructor in San Miguel de Allende, Arthur Meyerson, said that I should put "counterpoint" in my images. The flowers seemed to be a good way to do it.
The first serious shot with my new digital SLR, a Nikon D70. Shot while sitting next to my friend Rex Morey at Fort Mason, after visiting Photo San Francisco 2004.
There were three hanging there, but I removed an uninteresting one and replaced it after I shot.
Richard Martin made a lot of images of this kind and I'm trying to emulate him. In Burano.
Part of the caboose that is behind the railroad museum in Danville, CA. I shot it with my pocket digital camera while taking a walk.
In San Miguel de Allende. In the morning we don't see the pattern of light and shadow - I have another image that way but I like this one better. I used HDR to capture the entire range of exposures. It seems quite odd to me that this building is never shown on any of the maps of San Miguel nor described in any of the writeups I have seen. I think it mainly caters to local kids rather than tourists, so that may be the explanation.
This is a site on the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff Park chosen by our leader, John Cang. It is right on the roadside.
Freeman Patterson liked this picture because the church balanced the red tree. One camera club judge thought it was terrible because the church was distracting. I submitted it again and that judge thought it was wonderful, with perfect placement of the church!
Shot in the Episcopal church in Kingston, New Brunswick on a rainy day during the Freeman Patterson workshop
Made on the Albany Bulb of Eastshore State Park in Albany, CA. One of many artworks in an area that the authorities want to clear for park development.
This stairway is in the Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende. The pot, however, from a nursery in Danville. I darkened the back wall a good deal to bring out the stairway
In a building near the Casa de la Cultura. I had to use HDR to get all the details in one image. And a little cloning to remove distractions.
It was a foggy day as I was practicing with my new D70 at Pt. Lobos. I like the dark background.
On the way to one of the pools; I think Grand Prismatic Spring, in Yellowstone. Suggested by Jeff Austin.
Shot from Steptoe Butte in the Palouse, with a tilted camera. Tree added later. Can you see it?
Our instructor said that I should put "counterpoint" in my images. Georges Meis put oranges in some of his, and I tried several in San Miguel. This is the only one that looked plausible.
We were driving along the Trans-Canada Highway at the end of the only rainy day of our trip when our leader spotted this. All I did was crop the foreground and darken the remaining foreground.
I really have no idea what is going on here, but it was an interesting subject in a small square in Venice
When we arrived in the Palouse there had been a serious wildfire burning to the south for several days, and the skies were hazy, so the light was not really good for landscape shooting. Then, in the middle of the week, a storm arrived. This is what it looked like. Lots of rain cleared the air. There was even a downpour.
