Manmade objects in landscape -

Sunset from my front porch.

This is the second image i took. 

I think I like the first one better because it's cleaner. But i do like the red car in the foreground of the second.

movement in a landscape - landscape is moving?

motion in a landscape

Movement in Landscape

Sunset landscapes in camera

Sunrise Abstract

This is the engine house for the Mt Con Mine. My grandfather and many great uncles and close family friends worked at this mine and my mom grew up across the street from this mine. It has always held a special place in my heart, and my house now looks directly up at it. I love it!

Construction of the 520 Bridge - Abstracted in Camera

Looking West from Evergreen Point

Bellevue, WA 

October 23, 2014

Landscape #1 - Channeling my Inner Caiti

Heading West towards McKenna at Sunset

September 28, 2014

Urban Density

A couple old photos with different interpretations of "urban density"

Urban density, Provence-stlye

Coney Island - the "Beach House and the Projects"

Manmade Landscapes

Cherry Street Loft, Olympia
Office Park, Renton

To include the manmade; that is the question

In pursuing our landscape project this month, I have been pondering many aspects of the topic, including "what is a landscape". Like Carolyn, I have not been limiting myself to thinking of landscapes as only pieces of the natural world. Landscapes can be man-made, natural, or exist only in the mind of the photographer.

Currently, I am pondering the relationship between natural landscapes and human influenced landscapes. When photographing in a city park, like the Arboretum, it is hard to escape the influence and impact of man. Paths, benches and exotic plants are all part of the norm.

My question to you is whether or not city landscapes are stronger for their man-made elements; or, do you prefer a landscape where the concentration is on the plant and geologic elements? In these images, the presence of man and man-made gives a sense of scale that might otherwise be difficult for us to determine.

What do you think?

solitude

I want you to enter the foto, look around, have a sense of the large beach scape

come walk with me

there is much to learn

much to share

kelp

this is another version of the jaggeded fotos that I am working on.

I wanted the finished foto to flow with the kelp bed, to have your eye travel and concentrate only on the kelp flow.