Christmas Stocking [Payson 19/52]

Bandstand [Payson 18/52]

My photo Forgotten Shoes just hit 400 views on Flickr. What a trip. Anyway, another photo from my Gakkenflex. What's a Gakkenflex? That's another post I've been meaning to write . . .

Art Nouveau Tree [Payson 17/52]

Untitled [Payson 16/52]

Moon over Walgreens [Payson 15/52]

I love this photo. I grabbed it out of my car window while waiting for a green light. The caption on the sign was serendipity. I didn't even notice it when I shot it.



And Forgotten Shoes just passed 300 views on Flikr. What a trip.

Train Graffiti #2 [Payson 13/52]

Ditch Witch [Payson 12/52]

Something for Halloween. Sort of.

Added by invitation to the Flickr Ditch Witch group on Nov. 9, 2010.

Train Graffiti #1 [Payson 11/52]

Chamber of Commerce [Payson 10/52]

Digger [Payson 9/52]

Pipes [Payson 8/52]

Please Do Not Feed [Payson 7/52]

American Mutton [Payson 6/52]

I saw this sheep randomly grazing lawns on Main St. in Elberta (pop. 278) as I was driving through last week. The whole town is a little American Gothic. The wandering lambmower honestly didn't look too out of place. It may in fact be employed by the city to trim the verge. I did mention this was Elberta.

Aspen Stand [Payson 5/52]

Tani and I drove to the top of the scenic byway above our house one evening last week, just for some high mountain air. We rarely do it. The sun was very low, setting on the aspens. We talked about retirement.

Towers [Payson 4/52]

Coming home just as the sun was dropping behind West Mountain, I dove off the highway and cast about for anything worth shooting. I tried for the water treatment plant, but no good angles. So I turned around and started working some industrial towers. Geneva Rock and Concrete, I think. Three minutes of light left. Any light. Some quick clicks.

When I got them into PhotoShop, I thought I had nothing. Then I went a bit medieval on contrast and tone curves and hues, noise layer added to fight banding, and, surprisingly, out came something I liked. The weather towers at center, up on West Mountain, really cannot be seen in the straight photo, but in silhouette they are pronounced and important to the picture. So in it goes at week 4.

Forgotten Shoes [Payson 3/52]

There are some ABCs painted on the a bike path next to a playground by my house. I was riding by and saw these shoes left carefully in the hollow of the A, no children anywhere in sight. It struck me as a wonderful bit of found art (click!) representing childhood's little misunderstood dramas. The drama occurred with the owner's mother when she went home shoeless. But for her this was the most visually appropriate place to leave her shoes, while she ran in the grass or played in the creek. She could not have been more correct.

Addendum: This photo was invited to be added to the Flickr group Lost shoes (baby or children). My first invitation! And I think the very existence of this group proves my theory that if you can imagine it, there is a group for it on Flickr.

Mosaic [Payson 2/52]

Cold Storage [Payson 1/52]

A popular self-challenge among Flikrers is a 52 week project, where you post a photo a week on a certain theme, or with no theme at all, for a year. I'm going to do it for the town where I live, Payson, UT. Not because it's interesting, but it's what I have to work with. I'm starting with our newest building. It doubles as the rec center.