It was pouring rain last night when I returned home. Not yet ready to settle in for the evening, I decided to spend some quality time with Annie. As we played together I noticed how our favorite maple tree is beginning to turn. The tree is ancient and for whatever reason has become our harbinger of both spring and autumn. It is the first to cast an innocent blush in March and subsequently, the first to turn orange in September.
I decided to engage myself with a photo experiment choosing the maple tree as my subject. I fished out the ol' rarely used tripod and a crazy 400mm lens and played around with some spooky long exposures. Normally during long exposures I plead with the dog to be still because any wag of her tail causes undesirable movement in an image. But last night I was curious as to what might happen if during a 4 sec exposure @ f32 I bounced a tennis ball and Annie jumped to catch it?
The result is the above photograph. Many of the images were not nearly as painterly, but damn if she and I didn't have fun making them.
