thechrisproject photography

This is a picture I winter or two ago. I wasn’t out to be shooting at all, I was just riding my bike to my dad’s house on a weekend. I brought my point and shoot along with me almost as an afterthought. The snow was coming down pretty furiously and the going was a little rough on most of the bike path. As I was traveling under a bridge, I was just suddenly struck by how pretty it was. It was kinda like “holy shit, I’m taking a picture right now because this would be stupid to miss.” My only regret is that I didn’t have my SLR then. This is a good picture for the web, but I can’t seem to print them very well; they always look like overblown low-res digital files.

I took this next picture a few minutes later and a mile or so down the creek. To this date, it is my most popular flickr picture.

I entered both of these in this weeks dane101 MadThemes contest. The theme was “snow”. I had a lot of pictures with snow in them that I considered entering, but I wanted something where the snow was one of the main characters in the shot. I think these two capture that well. I also entered this shot, taken on the bike path on the way to work one morning.

The funny thing about this image is that I still squint sometimes when I look at it. I know my computer monitor can’t harm my eyes like the sun can, but I still instinctively squint, especially when it’s large.

Now I really need to work on the pictures from last week’s My Brightest Diamond/Devotchka show. My new camera should arrive today!

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