Saturday, January 17, 2009

More winter pics

Its been chilly recently (single digits, both positive and negative) but I braved the finger-numbing cold for a while around sunset yesterday to try and snap some artistic photos with my 50mm prime lens (the lack of zoom forces one to come up with perhaps more unique compositions, or at very least to shoot a familiar area differently.) All these shots are within about 200 feet of each other around the oldest buildings on campus (c. 1870s).

I never noticed this building had hexagonal roof tiles until I started processing the pictures!

Salt crystals and patterns left over from melting the snow on steps

Looking down the slope towards the town of Ithaca below

asymmetric symmetry of hand-laid rock

The bare branches of winter

Perspective