Pictures

I took a picture of my fiancée, Laura, over the weekend. She hates it and I understand why. The wide-angle lens enlarges her nose and shrinks her ears. In other words, wide-angles are not good for portraiture. But I look at it not as a portrait, but rather a dynamic picture. In that light, it’s actually a good picture. In any case she asked me not to post it so you’ll have to use your imagination.


This picture was taken during a lightning storm. There were no visible bolts of lightning from my vantage point, but they lit up the clouds. I used 800-speed film and held the shutter open for anywhere between 8 and 30 seconds, and I have no idea how long it was open for this picture, but it is rather interesting. The effect is eerie and looks like I used some kind of weird filter in Photoshop. It’s surprising that it turned out at all because it was extremely windy and I had to hold it open manually for a long time.


This is a skyscape picture I took near Waco, Nebraska, along Interstate 80, about an hour or more before sunset. I wish I could have stayed there until sunset because it would have been a beautiful one. At sunset I was in Grand Island, and there wasn’t a cloud in the west.

Below are some rejected pictures that I took for the cover of my book, which I hope to finish and publish some time in the next year or two. The title of the book is Feathers. There were better pictures, but I choose not to publish them anywhere. Next time I’ll know I need to over-expose the pictures to get more detail in the feathers, which are actually turkey feathers that I bought from a Ben Franklin store.







All images © 2005 Kelly Hoffart