January included some mild days that featured serious fog, certainly a major friend to landscape photography. I took a number of shots of a nearby stand of woods bordering Lake Michigan. This shot seemed to work best as a wide panoramic.
At the end of January I visited St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, located on Milwaukee's South
Side. I had asked in advance, and the staff were gracious in giving me as much time as I wanted to photograph the cathedral's interior. The interior is virtually covered--walls and ceiling--with exquisite mosaics. The following of the venue's modest sized dome is simply representative.
I took advantage of a mild day in February to visit the Milwaukee County Zoo. I thought this iguana came off nicely,
But my favorite in this series was this photo of a female mandrill. She was looking right at me.
In May my wife and I spent several days in New Mexico, and I felt good about a number of the photos that I got on the trip. On our initial drive to Santa Fe, we met the "mayor" of Golden, New Mexico, an interesting fellow. Here I decided to crop the shot down to include just his fabulous beard. The light was great.
Speaking of Santa Fe, here is a shot of some typical Santa Fe architecture.
I also liked the following sculpture in the courtyard of one of Santa Fe's art museums.
I actually liked that I had offset the sculpture's face and converted the shot to a black & white.
Outside of Albuquerque we toured a historical home, and I caught this simple "still life" that I liked for its simplicity.
Here is a shot of a courtyard of one of Albuquerque's principal art museums. I thought the shot worked because of the converging perspective lines, in part created by the shadows.
In August we attended the wedding of the daughter of good friends. The wedding took place in Ludsen, Minnesota, and I took this extemporaneous shot in an antique shop in nearby Grand Marais. The silhouetted plates served to set off the complex light coming through the glass block exterior wall of the shop.
One of my favorite local architectural venues is Milwaukee's Basilica of St. Josaphat, but most of my shots previously have been of the venue's stunning interior. This was a shot of the exterior. The morning sun was illuminating the building's east facade, and I was able to accentuate that by turning the image into a black & white and darkening the sky for increased drama.
In September we visited our daughter in Washington, D.C. Here is a shot of the city's Metro subway system.
Later, I returned to the Library of Congress and got this shot of one of the building's side ceilings. From a symmetry point of view, I pretty much nailed it.
During the trip, we also had an opportunity to visit the stunning FDR memorial and I took this shot of one of the sculptures. The shot itself was just OK, but I thought the hands expressed great emotion.
Later in the fall, I found myself wandering around in the woods attached to our subdivision, looking for fall color. I finally realized that by looking up I could capture that color by focusing on the leaves above me and letting the foliage further up go out of focus. The dark mini-branches added to the effect, I thought.
I haven't visited Milwaukee's botanical gardens much in the last couple of years, but in late fall I did pay a visit and got this black & white of some pincushion cacti.
Finally, is a photo of an abandoned dairy farm a few miles from our home that I have shot any number of times. In this case, I shot the farmhouse through a window in the barn. But in truth the subject of this photo was the window rather than the house.
John
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