2013 - Kristen Westlake landscape and wildlife photography - original fine art - luxury canvas prints

Mr. Hahn's Hands

Amen

A mowed path revealed an interesting subject in this area the week before but not interesting enough. Today the path of short grass was covered in yellow dandelions, making for a delicious scene. The clouds were puffy in the blue sky. Black and white revealed the feel and emotion that presented itself best via shapes and tones, without the color.

Dandi Path

Untamed

Prairie Summer

The lines in the cut rows of hay intrigue me and I saw in silvery black and white what lay before my eyes in color. The long gravel drive separates the two fields, as if intersecting two thoughts. .. While the storm clouds add to the intensity of the idea that stemmed not in front of the lens, but from behind it in the 'thought' of the artist.

Intersecting Thoughts

Wild chicory graces the sides of rural highways. It has a nostalgic feel to it, drawing me in, beckoning me to explore.

Chicory

Humid

Quench

Shortcut

long pier at sunset on lake with golden water and whispy clouds

Triangles

long pier at sunset on lake

Calm

I've always loved the long road to nowhere images from the long roads in the western deserts ...

here in the midwest, where that scene is not as prevalent, I embrace the patterns within the landscapes.

A grassy intersection between a field and a long drive becomes my focus of interest... it teases .. the road is the obvious choice and the plowed field the second (on a tractor), but my interest is wondering about wandering, .. or running, through the grassy mystery of the often ignored intersection.

Wanderlust

Tonight after my run I stopped for dinner .. Not really, play along with me here. .. I really stopped to make this image ( I ate at home later :)

"How long is the wait for a table outdoors?" He asked. "Oh, only a season or two ... " said the hostess....

Table for Two

Double Exposed, a deer ran out just as I tripped the 30 second exposure for the headlights. Standing nearly perfectly still, he watched me as the car vanished behind me.

Deer in Headlights

multiple exposure in camera of one egret

Summer Egrets

Road Home

Night Photography with Star trails and abandoned house

Sweep