Poster Daisy

Taken near Downtown Durham earlier this summer. Decided to take a walk one evening in my neighborhood and came across this gerber daisy in one of the flower gardens at Measurement Incorporated. I went to move a leaf to take this picture and disturbed a bunch of hidden ants. They were crawling all over the flower, but I decided to take the picture anyway. After a little editing in Photoshop, I was able to make the flower look bug-free. This is one of my earlier "posterized" images.

Alien Cellular

Since I haven't really been posting a photo every single day, I figured I'd post two today to try and catch up. This image was taken in my kitchen one night for a "Bubbles" challenge at DPChallenge.com. As for how I created the bubbles, I used some Palmolive and some water and disturbed the water enough to create a small layer of bubbles. The bowl is dark cobalt, so the background came out nice, dark and blue. I set my camera at Super Macro and started taking pictures. After some post processing, I ended up with Alien Cellular.

Durham Fire Engine

Every year in September Durham holds the Annual Pride Festival for North Carolina. Last year I was able to sit down on the street level to watch the parade. The City of Durham always has one of it's firetrucks drive down Main Street in front of Duke University as part of the procession. I really liked the bold red colors captured in this photo and decided to play around with it in Photoshop and gave it a posterized effect.

The Wrapper

Last weekend I took some photos for a challenge on DPChallenge.com that was titled Garbage II. I decided to walk the streets of Downtown Durham and search for the best piece of trash I could find. This was one of the better outcomes of this venture. The Wrapper.

Almost There

This photo was taken in July, 2005 around the corner from my apartment. Measurement Incorporated is located across the street from the old Durham Bulls Athletic Park. They keep an assortment of flowers and plants in bloom around their buildings. I took this photo while taking a walk in the neighborhood one evening after work.

Water Garden

Taken at Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham, NC during one of my morning photo journeys. I've always loved how bright these flowers are in contrast to the large, green pads.