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James Hill > 20090810 - Touch of gold for Tuesday. Day three of the household abstracts. This one is a cheat. I got sidetracked yesterday and didn't get to shoot what I had planned, so this is another view of the same item from Monday. I've added a wider view to reveal the items seen in these last two shots, and I'll add some more a little later.
James Hill > 20090810 - Monday's Macro Mayhem Second in a week-long series of abstracts from everyday household items. I had a lot of fun with this subject. I have no idea exactly what it's used for (probably very little considering the tag was still on it) but I thought it made for a pretty neat time tunnel or electromagnetic accelerator. Beware of the orbs! I've posted a wide shot that should shed some light on the subject of Sunday's Stainless Steel Triptych. I'll post a few followup shots of this one with tomorrows post, including my first alternate.
James Hill > 20090809 - Sunday's Stainless Steel Triptych First in a series of abstracts for the week. All images will be everyday household items, viewed from a slightly different perspective. I'll add a revealing shot with followup notes into a separate gallery on the following day.
James Hill > What is it? Hints: 1) It's food. I ate it right after shooting it. 2) The colors are accurate, and the OOF highlights are from the texture of it's surface. 3) It's a product made from 3 ingredients, by a US company with a 3 letter name. 4) This is a macro, so the size of what you're looking at is roughly the size of the camera sensor. 5) The heat from the lamp made it even more delicious. 6) I added a little wider view here. It's out of focus unintentionally, but I didn't want to make things too easy. Well, dirkster guessed correctly, despite having "no clue" and was actually right on both accounts. It was a Utz brand Kettle Classics Dark Russet potato chip, and it's color comes from the natural sugars present in Russet potatoes which caramelizes when cooked. One of my favorite junk food snacks.
James Hill > Bugs, Insects, and other Tiny Creatures. photo
James Hill > Eggland's Best Eggs Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no denying the EB guys have left their mark, quite literally. Personally, I like the EB eggs and usually have a carton on hand, but every single time I open a carton I am reminded of the following exchange from an episode of Futurama: LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century? FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree. I had breakfast for dinner tonight - now I'm wondering what I might dream about...
James Hill > Filtered Cherries Sometimes I wish I could paint. Mostly when I have a really hard time getting what I want with a particular photograph. I mean it would be so much easier to just add light, shadow, and color with a brush, right? You even have complete control over focus. It sounds simple, but believe me when I tell you my artistic abilities stop at the end of my shutter finger. I guess that means I'll keep resorting to software and pixels, and a lot of trial and error. By the way, these did NOT come from the garden, I actually had to buy these at the store tonight.
James Hill > Vertigo, anyone? Trying to break out of the norm and see things from a new perspective. This is a relatively new pedestrian bridge that crosses the Eno River and leads into the city park where all of my festival shots have come from. This was the first time I crossed this bridge so I wanted to capture a few photos to mark the occasion. Not content with a straight-on approach, I wondered what it would look like if I hung upside down from the top. It probably goes without saying, but it was much harder to compose a decent shot than I expected. ;-) Edit: It seems many have missed my little winkie there at the end. I did NOT actually hang from the top. I just wondered what it would look like if I had. The difficulty was in getting the comp I wanted to make the shot look convincing. This was shot standing on my own two feet, then the image was flipped in post. While trying to compose this I was wishing for an inverted view, like the old view cameras.
James Hill > The Last Blueberry Bloom This was shot a while back. The actual berries are quite full now and I've been trying to get a shot I liked of their current state but, so far I haven't been happy with the results. I'm posting this one to force myself into settling on a shot of the berries tonight and end this madness of looking for the perfect composition. So tomorrow's shot will be blueberries, good, bad, or ugly! ;-)
20090810 - Touch of gold for Tuesday.

Day three of the household abstracts. This one is a cheat. I got sidetracked yesterday and didn't get to shoot what I had planned, so this is another view of the same item from Monday.

I've added a wider view to reveal the items seen in these last two shots, and I'll add some more a little later.
James Hill > 20090810 - Touch of gold for Tuesday. Day three of the household abstracts. This one is a cheat. I got sidetracked yesterday and didn't get to shoot what I had planned, so this is another view of the same item from Monday. I've added a wider view to reveal the items seen in these last two shots, and I'll add some more a little later.
20090810 - Touch of gold for Tuesday.

Day three of the household abstracts. This one is a cheat. I got sidetracked yesterday and didn't get to shoot what I had planned, so this is another view of the same item from Monday.

I've added a wider view to reveal the items seen in these last two shots, and I'll add some more a little later.
See photo in original gallery.
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