A Photo a Day by Bill Heller

Shadow Photos
 
Monday, December 3, 2007

Sunset Wharf Walk

 The clouds in the distance are actually our "Marine Layer" (fog) that rolls in to the beach in the evening. It was a good night for a walk on the Wharf.

 
Sunday, December 2, 2007

Santa Barbara Courthouse Palms

 Another angle on the Santa Barbara Courthouse. The early morning light casts some beautiful shadows.

 
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Two Thirty

 I love sun dials. Hopefully someday soon we'll have space for a nice one. Of course I'll probably just fill the space up with more plants. But that's ok too. :-D

 
Friday, January 12, 2007

Sunbeam

 Zoe loves to travel with us. But she is glad to be home from her adventure in Monterey. She was happy to see her sunbeam was right where she left it for her mid morning nap. All that travel takes a lot out of a hound!

 
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Christmas Tree

 Here is another shot of our Christmas tree in the middle of our dining room table. Again, I love the shadows!

 
Monday, December 18, 2006

Quilling Snow Man

 This is our Christmas tree this year. The holidays have been a little crazy this year so our decorating has been on a rather small scale. This is a little juniper bonsai tree that is on our dining room table. We had some small ornaments and the snowman from last year and it all seemed to go together. I particularly like the snowman's shadow.

 
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Shadows of Paradise

 O.K. if you got here from the "Banana Photos" page I am not going nuts or getting sloppy in my photo categorization. (well, at least not the second one anyway.) The Bird of Paradise is actually a member of the Banana [Musaceae] family. Strange but true!

But wait, it gets even stranger! Like bananas, Bird of Paradise are botanically considered herbs since they do not produce any woody stems. (That's right, even the biggest 25 foot banana tree is not really a tree at all.)

Well that is the botany lesson for the day. The photo is pretty nice too, if I do say so myself.

 
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Shady Daisy

 This is one of my favorite daisy photos. The angle of the light really brings out the texture of the flower.

 
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Shady Hibiscus

 The angle of the light really brings out the texture of this beautiful flower. I had some fun with the little fuzzy things on the top and a macro lens too. I'll take a close look at the results and see if there is anything interesting to put up here tomorrow.

 
Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Rose Shadows

 I particularly like the shadows of the stamen on the petal. The sun was cooperating very nicely on this one!

 
Sunday, April 2, 2006

Alien Flowerscape

 This looks to me like rolling hills on a strange landscape. And, I guess from the fly's point of view it is.

 
Thursday, February 2, 2006

Purple flower

 The light is perfect on this beautiful flower, the angle brings out the texture of the petals. But, the Internet failed me on this one! I was not able to identify it. I'll keep lookin'.

 
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Shadow Puppets

 The Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens is a beautiful place. Never a shortage of subjects. But, I wonder if the plants get bored when the gates close and everyone goes home. At least they can entertain themselves making shadow puppets on the rocks.

The fern is doing his impression of a Norfolk Pine.

 
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Moonlit Lily

 Saturday was a really good show. I pulled out a few new Hummingbird images for this weekend and they were very popular.

This was another image that caught a few eyes. It was one of the first images I enlarged years ago when I was just starting to think about showing my photographs.

 
Saturday, June 11, 2005

El Paseo Bench

 This photo was taken at the same time as the photo of the day for February 5, 2005. I like them both, this one is just a little simpler. Brings out the curves in the bench.

 
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Evening Poppy

 I like to take pictures when the sun is low in the sky. The shadows are much more interesting. These Poppies are always beautiful subjects, but to just snap a photo of a white flower in the middle of the day would make for a pretty boring picture. The shadows here accentuate the shapes of the flower and add even more interest to an already beautiful flower.

 
Saturday, February 5, 2005

El Paseo Shadows

 This is one of many cool photographs I can thank my art director for. I took this while walking with my best friend on EL Paseo in Palm Desert. She pointed out the shadows from across the street. I would have walked right past them (and I probably did many times.)

 
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