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::Liquid Fire::

I love back lit subjects.

-L-
carlos

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::Gazing Ball::

A decorated Gazing Ball at a restaurant.  I've always liked these when I first saw them many years ago.  I've been coming back to this restaurant since.  Sometimes, they are so dusty it's a shame.  This time, it looked fairly clean.  So I snapped a couple of shots.  Enhance the color is all.

BTW, I also processed this image with two algorithms that changed it's look and to me made it look artsy.  I'll post them at the end of the month on my website.

-L-
carlos

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::Sponge Ball::

An interesting piece.  This is a nerf like ball.  Looks like a soccer ball, but a toy for dogs.

-L-
carlos

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::Aza 2.0::

World meet Aza 2.0, Aza meet World.

-L-
carlos

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::Gold::

I really like the pattern in the gold and the green.  A very rich look.

These stones I got, I just could not stop taking pictures of them.  I love how the light just brings out such beautiful detail.  So many just over look this beauty!

-L-
carlos

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::Millefiore::

I was first introduced to Millefiore by an old friend.  He is died many years ago.  But he explained the beauty of Millefiore.  Ever since, I have been admiring this beautiful work of art.  Using glass rods that have a multi color/flower designs.

-L-
carlos

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::The Deep II::

I got this today.  I liked how the shape was that of a butterfly, but I wanted to go in deeper.  So I did.  This is what I found.

Lovely, isn't it!

-L-
carlos

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::Feather::

An interesting feather.  The color was iridescent viridian.  A really nice color, but this had too many tears in the feather.  I did take some pictures of the root area, but this one had a better look.

-L-
carlos

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::Hearts::

This was an interesting project.  The mesh gives some interesting views and make for some really nice back lit photos.

-L-
carlos

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::Decoration::

Something to decorate with.

-L-
carlos

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::Oncidium::

This is a flower that is tiny.  I think it is about an inch in size.  I love these little flowers.  They have such beautiful texture and color.

-L-
carlos

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::Blue::

I was working with the remote of the new helicopter I got.  I noticed the blue led lights that were in it.  So I started to make closeup shots of them.  I processed them and this is one I call Blue.

-L-
carlos

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::ODepot::
::Dancing Lights::

I had to stop at the store for work this evening.  I liked how the rain drops were on my windshield and then the lights on the building and the reflections on the cars.  I took this with my phone camera the HD2.

I've included the second edited.

-L-
carlos

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::Delicious::

Something I decided to do was shoot these fake grapes.  Up close they look more like cherries.

-L_
carlos

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::Demons in Crystal Shards::

I must say.  Every time I take and look at crystals, especially the raw unfinished crystals, I am amazed at what becomes visible.  Could it be true, about crystals and their mystical properties and uses?  This tiny crystal, has been with me for over ten years, until today, I never expected to see this staring me in the face.  It is just amazing!  I wonder what the story behind this crystal is.  Is it a smaller piece of the larger crystal the once belonged to a powerful psychic, who used it to channel spirits, or better, demons, to do their bidding.  It just seems odd that I have this one piece and so much is being revealed, just by looking into it.  Could this be what they see when they go into their trance and channel a spirit?

-L-
carlos

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::A Room with a Warped View::

This one took time to come up with.  I studied it and looked at different angles.  This one, by far is the best.

-L-
carlos

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::Liquid Glass::

I am completely intrigued by glass.  I like how light and shadow dance in it.

-L-
carlos

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::A Friend Re-Visited::

I've been going back to this subject lots of times.  I cannot get over the many possibilities of it.  Just by changing the direction of the light.  I guess you could say that of a lot of things.  This was a fun project.  I have other images that I liked from this series.  I'll post them to my website at the end of the month.

-L-
carlos

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::Color Tension::

This image gives me a tense feeling.  So I titled it so.  It looks like color being pulled apart.

-L-
carlos

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::U Focused Diamonds::

Man made patterns.

-L-
carlos

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::Take Off::

A small craft at take off.

This was so much fun.  I had help, of course!  I have several other photos I liked, but this is the one that has more motion.

-L-
carlos

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::Happy Valentine's Day::   -L-  carlos

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::Warped Reflections::

I was working with a magnifying glass and saw the reflection.  So I took several shots of it in portrait, landscape and magnified.

-L-

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::Binder::

The coils of a binder book on binding.

-L-
carlos

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::Light Build - Test One::

Had an old computer power supply, so I took some wires from it and built this lamp.  I used a blue background.  This bulb was running off of three AAA batteries.

-L-
carlos

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::Ribbon Flower::

I was playing around with this ribbon.  It was some left over ribbon from when I worked at Godiva.  I had made a rose from some red ribbon and then I decided to make one with this green ribbon.  It is wire mesh and difficult to work with.  Here is the result of my efforts.

-L-
carlos

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::Mont Blanc::

One of my favorite writing instruments.  A gift I received last summer.

-L-
carlos

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::Assassins in the Fog::

I have been having so much fun with this setup.  I added fog effects to this scene and also changed the lighting.

-L-
carlos

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::Golden Tips::

A walk on the golden wild side.  These were interesting when I saw them.  I took them down and shot them individually then grouped them together and like how the reflections looked.

-L-
carlos

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::Shadow Stalkers::

Fantasy setting before a fight.

::Ghostly Stalkers::

Fantasy setting from a ghostly view point.

-L-
carlos

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::Color Abstract::

There are several crystals or should I say, plastic gems, behind this clear one.  I love how the colors come through.  These have been with me for a very long time.  This is the first time I have actually photographed them. This one is a keeper, it's going to get printed large!

-L-

carlos

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::Blue Ice::

This weather has brought us some cold temperatures here in Dallas.  Todays subject, I decided to give cold a chance.

-L-
carlos

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::Trinity River Arch::

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::Intimate Rotini::

I was looking for the nice color that translucent subjects give off when back lit.  This Rotini did a wonderful job with the color yellow.  Above color is lightest and then you have a deeper yellow with the shadow playing nicely above them all.

-L-

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::A Warm Neptune::

I would imagine that the warm planet Neptune would be so beautiful, its oceans bubbling with yellow lava in a sea of blue, the horizon brilliantly lit with spectacular yellows and aqua skies, drops of water falling upward to the stars only to return to the surface of the blue ocean as lances of ice.

-L-
carlos

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::Dallas Design District::

Ever since the Dallas Design District has been upgraded with side walks, lighting, manicured lawns, it has been a really nice location for photography.  This is my first, but not the last.  It started raining after my sixth shot.  So had to pack it up and go.  I did manage to get this shot, really nice.


-L-
carlos

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::Rolled Tissue Paper::

I have created some really nice, non-photo, artsy projects with tissue paper.  This time around, I decided to make it my subject.  I tried different lighting, worked the paper in different ways, then I decided to make a flower with it since it was one of the very first things I had learned to do with it back in my elementary days, and I used back lighting.

-L-

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::The Nightmare Guardian::

This evening, after watching "The Birdcage", a favorite by the way, I noticed how shadows were playing in the movie, so I decided to have Shadows be the Subject for tonight.  I have to tell you, this was fun.  I created  a series of them.  This one is titled The Nightmare Guardian, the others are as follows:
The Protector
The Ghoul
The Innocent
I could have continued but decided to leave it as is and post my work.  This one, "The Nightmare Guardian" came out perfect! I did not add any color to the image, it is as is, I just increased the black level in Raw Processing, that's it.

-L-
carlos

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::Metal::

Shopping at the hardware store today and I saw this in a bin.  I picked it up and decided it was going to be my subject of the day. I like the texture of the outside and the smooth threads on the inside.

-L-
carlos

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::Blue::

Once you try this with color and water, you will have fun with it.  I know I did.

-L-
carlos

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::Twisted::

Twisted Light...  I could not decide from 4 images.   I took about 65 shots different perspectives.  But this one, is just beautiful!

-L-
carlos

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::String Theory::

My subject here was light.  I was looking for some different light diffraction and liked this best.  It almost seems like a string.  Gives the sense of sound and movement.

-L-
carlos

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::Gummy Bears::

I decided to do gummy bears today.  I was at the grocery store and saw these guys and thought, how wonderful to shoot these translucent candies.  So I got a handful of them.  I took shots of each color solo, then grouped them together and this is the one I liked the best.

-L-
carlos

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::Downtown Dallas View from CitiPlace::

I was coming home from Fry's up north in Plano.  It was the beginning of Twilight time and figured I would head down town to get this image.  I shot the scene at ISO1600.  I wanted that Grain!

-L-
carlos

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::Aza Not Feeling Well::

She has had a tough time these past few days.  I have not been able to focus very much, but have still been able to keep her fluids up and hoping she gets over her fever.  She is just a very little girl, she just turned one in Nov 2010.  I just hate seeing her like this.  So my photo for the day is of her.  I have been with her all day.  I left for about 20 minutes to run to the store and pickup some baby food for her to eat. She has to eat.

-L-
carlos

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::Lights::

I hung these lights on the divider and I remember the image I had taken back in Summer of 04, when I had joined my first Photographers Group.  It was a Photo Shoot we had gone to at the Dallas World Aquarium. I had fun in there!  There was this window on the sub level floor or maybe it was the second floor, these windows had some kind of paper on them, but the light behind was multi colored, so I took a shot and loved how it looked.  This kind of reminds me of it. The lights are visible here, but on that one photo it was a beautiful transition of warm to cool colors.

-L-
carlos

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::Dallas Tollway::

Love this type of photos.  I like the lights how they create tubes going down the roads.

-L-
carlos