The few beaches that I have been to have been pretty, but not much from a photographic standpoint, at least where foreground is concerned. I’ve seen photos of huge bolders off the beach with waves crashing on them or maybe old ships beached that were used in the foreground. About the best that I’ve run across has been a small boat or two or something like this old stump. I wonder if you can buy an inflatable bolder? Just blow it up and throw it out into the waves. Presto. Instant, awesome foreground. I’m running to the patent office tomorrow.
FEBRUARY 5, 2013 It is a cool winter evening as I sit writing this post and I can hear the train several miles away blowing its horn for the crossings. How appropriate. Except for the little one that rides around at the zoo, I’ve never had the pleasure to ride on a train. Subways don’t count, since they don’t sound or look the same. Maybe one day I’ll hop aboard and see the sights from high above an observation deck. This engine was caught at the Amtrak Station in downtown Houston. I was there to see Union Pacific 844 and walked around before the crowds got heavy. An engineer even invited us to step up inside another engine on a different track and look at the controls. It was pretty simple really, but to think you manage that much power is pretty cool from a manly point of view. I’ll post that some day soon.
Walking around the large pond at Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France is a feast for the eyes. Everywhere you turn are beautiful plants and flowers. Much of these you do not normally see in a typical flowerbed. And those that you do recognize are much nicer than most people can grow. In the middle distance, you can see the small bridge that was featured in so many of his paintings. As hard as I tried to get a nice shot of just the bridge, there were always herds of people on it having their photo taken.
