Elsa's Stuff and Nonsense: February 2005

Sunday, February 27, 2005

Kaw-Liga

That poor old wooden head.
A different meaning for "saddle up to the bar"??

This is the bar in the Fort Worth Hotel in the Stockyards. And, yes, the bar stools are saddles.

Waiting at the Station

This was taken at another one of those pesky museums that I like to visit. A bit of nostalgia.

Photo Friday - Ghostly

Went "ghost" hunting one evening just for the heck of it.

Friday, February 25, 2005

This is the other photo that was entered into the Touch of Color photograpy contest. It won.

This photo has been a point of contention ever since I took it.

I have a big problem with most things that are perfectly symmetrical. I know there are some things that look better, in fact, need to be symmetrical, but in my world they are rarer than one might think.

I first entered this photograph in my local camera club's weekly photo contest. It won that contest and went on to win the monthly contest as well.
That made it eliglbe for the Photograph of the Year contest to be judged by 3 professional photographers. 1 judge liked it....1 didn't. He didn't like the slight asymmetry. He thought it needed to be straight or more asymmetrical.

When I set this up to photograph, I set it up with the background stripes perfectly straight. I did not like it at all. I then changed to a more pronounced diagonal. I didn't like that either. The background became the focus instead of the bottle. So, I shot it with the background on a slight diagonal. I love it. Since I shoot for me, that was enough. Thankfully, the tie breaker judge liked it as well. It won Photograph of the Year.

Red Rose Reflection

A photography forum that I participated in had a contest entitled A Touch of Color. We were to enter a photograph depicting that theme. This is one of my entries.