Day 132 - Tuesday March 22, 2016 100mm Day 10
Day 132- Tuesday March 22, 2016 100mm (10)
For the past six years, I've driven to work via Garcon Point Rd. You notice things on these beautiful seldom traveled country roads that get your attention. The first thing I noticed was back in 2005, not long after I started commuting this road on a regular basis. While travelling a long stretch of straight road, bordered by marshland on both sides, I noticed this pine tree that appears 'out of bounds'. The land on the west side of the road has fencing around it, for what seems like forever, yet there are about three pine trees in a mile stretch that are outside it. Two of them are ordinary pines, the one in the middle, or the third one, is what I like to call the 'life finds a way' tree. I have always noticed it. Standing out there, away from the crowd, rooted in the stagnant water that usually fills the drain field because the area is low. This tree is pretty amazing but I haven't been able to capture it in all its splendor yet. It appears a pretty ordinary tree until you look at the trunk. At the base of this 20 year old tree, something happened in its youth. Something as it was growing, from maybe a sapling to what it is today. I really can't explain it, other than it was basically all but chopped down, or damaged in a way, that all of a sudden grew back. The only way to explain the trunk of this tree is that it looks like a complete right angle, a number 4 almost, then it recovers, and rises up--as if something had been laying on it for a number of years, then was suddenly removed. Now that I have my 10-18mm, i'll try to get a pic of it in it's glory, but there is a lot of growth around it. My goal is to be able to let the viewer see it, because explaining it doesn't really justify the means.
Further down this road is an abandoned house. This ranch house with the tin roof has been abandoned for about a decade now. I've often wanted to check it out, as the garage door has been missing since Hurricane Ivan or Dennis in 04, or 05, but every spring, evidence of folks that cared for it blooms as azaleas and crepe myrtles still come to life, rooted in this front yard. The 100mm doesn't do it justice, but, being that I'm using this lens for the next 20 days in my blog, I had to figure out a way to get it to show some of the beauty and ruin in this place. I took this pic on the way home, having the opportunity to stop on Garcon Point Rd and get a few off. They didn't turn out bad, but getting the pic exactly as I'd like to see the house would be a better fit for my wide angle. That's what this experiment is, right, an effort to better use the lens for what it was made for. Working on it. I'm in no rush to get the pine tree, as the surroundings don't really change. Might even have to get a few of the other gross saplings whittled down around it to show what I'm actually talking about. hope to show it soon, as the wide angle lens will more than likely be the lens I use next.
For the past six years, I've driven to work via Garcon Point Rd. You notice things on these beautiful seldom traveled country roads that get your attention. The first thing I noticed was back in 2005, not long after I started commuting this road on a regular basis. While travelling a long stretch of straight road, bordered by marshland on both sides, I noticed this pine tree that appears 'out of bounds'. The land on the west side of the road has fencing around it, for what seems like forever, yet there are about three pine trees in a mile stretch that are outside it. Two of them are ordinary pines, the one in the middle, or the third one, is what I like to call the 'life finds a way' tree. I have always noticed it. Standing out there, away from the crowd, rooted in the stagnant water that usually fills the drain field because the area is low. This tree is pretty amazing but I haven't been able to capture it in all its splendor yet. It appears a pretty ordinary tree until you look at the trunk. At the base of this 20 year old tree, something happened in its youth. Something as it was growing, from maybe a sapling to what it is today. I really can't explain it, other than it was basically all but chopped down, or damaged in a way, that all of a sudden grew back. The only way to explain the trunk of this tree is that it looks like a complete right angle, a number 4 almost, then it recovers, and rises up--as if something had been laying on it for a number of years, then was suddenly removed. Now that I have my 10-18mm, i'll try to get a pic of it in it's glory, but there is a lot of growth around it. My goal is to be able to let the viewer see it, because explaining it doesn't really justify the means.
Further down this road is an abandoned house. This ranch house with the tin roof has been abandoned for about a decade now. I've often wanted to check it out, as the garage door has been missing since Hurricane Ivan or Dennis in 04, or 05, but every spring, evidence of folks that cared for it blooms as azaleas and crepe myrtles still come to life, rooted in this front yard. The 100mm doesn't do it justice, but, being that I'm using this lens for the next 20 days in my blog, I had to figure out a way to get it to show some of the beauty and ruin in this place. I took this pic on the way home, having the opportunity to stop on Garcon Point Rd and get a few off. They didn't turn out bad, but getting the pic exactly as I'd like to see the house would be a better fit for my wide angle. That's what this experiment is, right, an effort to better use the lens for what it was made for. Working on it. I'm in no rush to get the pine tree, as the surroundings don't really change. Might even have to get a few of the other gross saplings whittled down around it to show what I'm actually talking about. hope to show it soon, as the wide angle lens will more than likely be the lens I use next.
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| Beauty and Ruin 100mm 1/1250 f11 ISO1600 |
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| Crepe Myrtles and Azaleas 100mm 1/1250 ISO1600 F11 |
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