Bamboo Forest
In a beautiful Japanese garden in Florida, I found this amazing bamboo forest. I wanted to get some very unique angles on the bamboo trees right after it had just stopped raining. I laid myself on the ground with my poncho on, set up my tripod, and lowered my camera as close to the ground as possible to get this angle of the trees. In Lightroom I wanted to give a cinematic look… Read More
A Spider’s Web
This shot was taken with my Leica X1 in one of the gardens in Florida that I visited. I’m not a spider person so I was actually a little nervous taking this shot because the spider (and its web) were actually pretty big. To get this shot I knelt down and had the spider in front of the stormy sky in the background to give it an even more intimidating look.
Japanese Shishi Odoshi
While exploring a Japanese garden on my vacation in Florida, I came across what to me looked like a Japanese bamboo waterfall. After taking a few shots with my Leica X1, I was able to focus directly on the spot of the bamboo where the water poured into it. In my post processing I felt that the green foliage and pennies all over the ground was a distraction so I went the black and… Read More
Beautiful Japanese Garden
While walking through an amazing Japanese Garden in Florida, these beautiful bright flowers caught my eye. When I walked up to them, this perfect scene emerged before my eyes. I saw little purple flowers a little ways behind the bright pink flowers, a beautiful lake, and the Japanese museum on an island sitting on the lake just come together. Before even raising my Leica X1 to capture the moment, I had already composed the… Read More
Sony A7r’s In-Camera B&W Function
A few weeks ago while staying in Raleigh, I decided to visit a Japanese Botanical Garden and took my Sony A7r along with a Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f1.5. I spent about 20 minutes trying to get an extreme angle on this Japanese Sculpture and had to lay on the sidewalk to achieve this perspective. Overall I’m and pretty happy with this shot. I had recently discovered how powerful some of the filters were… Read More
