Latent Potential #6 Bozeman, Montana 2013

I’m sure there a more correct name, but I’ve always called these foxtails.

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Latent Potential #5 Bozeman, Montana 2013

The same grass stems as in yesterday’s photo in a more intimate arrangement.

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Latent Potential #4 Bozeman, Montana 2013

Besides their simplistic minimalist shapes, these grasses whose name I do not know are of interest to me because they are tall (probably averaging 18″), slender and flexible yet  stand quite upright even with the mass of the seed head perched at the end. Pretty amazing.

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Latent Potential #3 in B&W Bozeman, Montana 2013

I don’t think this imaged showed the same degree of difference in “depth” compared to the color version as did the same B&W vs. color comparison of Latent Potential #2. Still I think it is noticeable here as well, so I believe I will continue with the series in color.]]>

POTD: Latent Potential #2 in B&W Bozeman, Montana 2013

So this series started out as color images (actually partially desaturated color images to be more precise) but that black and white bent of mine reared it’s head today so I decided to take a look at them as monochrome images. Comments?

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Latent Potential #3 Bozeman, Montana 2013

I was lining up some Arrowleaf Balsamroot seed heads for a photograph when I got distracted by (or should I say attracted to) the wrinkled leaves on the stems, so I ended up shooting them instead. I just like the flow of their shapes as the eye moves from left to right across the image. Since the seed heads themselves aren’t actually in the photo, using the Latent Potential title is a bit of a stretch but what the heck, I think that’s part of what artistic license is good for isn’t it?

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Latent Potential #2 Bozeman, Montana 2013

Back in December I posted a photo called Latent Potential. I called it that because the subject was seed pods, which contain the possibility of new growth. I thought at the time that photos of various dried or drying plants gone to seed would also make a good series of images. Other than collecting some additional plants to photograph, I only just got around to actually photographing any yesterday. So you might say the series itself has had a lot of latent potential the last few months.

I don’t know what kind of flowers these puff-balls are from. Some relative of the common dandelion with very long stems I suppose. I do know these are very tough subjects to work with–they keep wanting to go about their business of dispersing their seeds at inopportune times while I’m trying to collect or photograph them.

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Was Superman a Commie? Budapest, Hungary 2013

This sculpture in Budapest, a leftover from the Russian occupation of Hungary during the Cold War, is an example of socialist realism art. Socialist realism was a U.S.S.R. approved artistic style that celebrated an idealized vision of the life and industriousness of workers. The photo below is George Reeves, the original Clark Kent a.k.a. (sans glasses and suit and tie) as Superman. Is the resemblance just a coincident? We report, you decide. ]]>

Lectio #43 Budapest, Hungary 2011

A two-for-one reading shot, three-for-one if you count the woman reading/writing something on her smart phone. On the steps of the Hungarian National Gallery.]]>

Beauty and the Beast Budapest, Hungary 2011

Actually, they’re both good looking in their own regal ways.

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