Nature Photography by Pam Kelso. 2018 - Ephemeral Light Photography - Plantings and vistas that reflect the beauty of nature, it's abundance and neutrality in human projections. It is not bound with myth, politics, tradition or current fads. Ephemeral Light. Light that is transitory. Dappled shade, wind, moving clouds, rain and pollinators buzzing around flowers. These create an image where the light and movement can change the whole image from one moment to the other. The human eye is capable of extraordinary precision and color dissemination. It can differentiate between about 10 million colors and is possibly capable of detecting a single photon. The images I capture are ones that I would like to see connect or re-connect people with the beauty of earth. Those images that delight the eyes and awaken the senses.

Cave Paintings In the recesses of caves, people begin to decorate the rock face with an important theme in their daily lives, the bison and reindeer which are their prey as Ice Age hunters. Cave paintings: from 31,000 years ago, Prehistoric cave paintings have been discovered in many parts of the world, from Europe and Africa to Australia. Africa has some of the earliest paintings and rock engravings to have been securely dated. Nearly 30,000 years old, they are discovered in 1969 on the rock face in a cave near Twyfelfontein in Namibia. But the most numerous and the most sophisticated of prehistoric paintings are on the walls of caves in southwest France and northern Spain. In the United States prehistoric images from indigenous tribes in southern states date back over 6,000 years. In Mexico images dating back 5,000 years have been found. About 150 painted caves have been discovered in this region. Perhaps the most startling of all are the paintings in Chauvet cave, found as recently as 1994 and thought to be as much as 31,000 years old. But far better known, as yet, are the ones of Altamira and Lascaux. Read more: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab20#ixzz4ffOx6hzm https://www.pinterest.com/EphemeralLightPhotography/wall-prints/ 2018 - Ephemeral Light Photography - Plantings and vistas that reflect the beauty of nature, it's abundance and neutrality in human projections. It is not bound with myth, politics, tradition or current fads.

Fine Art I have always struggled with this defination so I will defer to Wikipedia. In European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork. Historically, the five main fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry, with performing arts including theatre and dance. Today, the fine arts commonly include additional forms, such as film, photography, video production/editing, design, sequential art, conceptual art, and printmaking. One definition of fine art is "a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic and intellectual purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture. In that sense, there are conceptual differences between the fine arts and the applied arts. As originally conceived, and as understood for much of the modern era, the perception of aesthetic qualities required a refined judgment usually referred to as having good taste, which differentiated fine art from popular art and entertainment. The word "fine" does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons. This definition originally excluded the applied or decorative arts, and the products of what were regarded as crafts. In contemporary practice these distinctions and restrictions have become essentially meaningless, as the concept or intention of the artist is given primacy, regardless of the means through which this is expressed. 2018 - Ephemeral Light Photography - Plantings and vistas that reflect the beauty of nature, it's abundance and neutrality in human projections. It is not bound with myth, politics, tradition or current fads.

Spring 2018 The Abundance of spring. 2018 - Ephemeral Light Photography - Plantings and vistas that reflect the beauty of nature, it's abundance and neutrality in human projections. It is not bound with myth, politics, tradition or current fads.

Spring 2018 The Abundance of summer. 2018 - Ephemeral Light Photography - Plantings and vistas that reflect the beauty of nature, it's abundance and neutrality in human projections. It is not bound with myth, politics, tradition or current fads.

When I moved into my apartment in 2001 my garden consisted of my pots with houseplants moved out to the porch. In 2007 I began it in earnest. A lot of work goes into planning, creating and planting a garden. Twice the weather in the winter was harsh enough to kill most everything to the ground and once after a prolongued time of -15 degree weather some of my older established plants died. I changed the inside color of the gate every year, for no special reason, it just made a nice different backdrop for the plantings. installed a soaker hose irrigation system, used a low-lying area of the yard for a sump garden, gathered seeds for my favorite plants for other years and used water holders for potted plants watering. Lot's of succulents and drought resistant plants helped cut water usage. I kept a detailed journal about planting, pots and designs for the yard. The "yard" as such was a plot 19 feet long and 6.5 feet wide. It was situated so that it was a micro-climate. The furniture I used on the porch and in the yard varied. Most of it was seconds furniture that was already damaged and the weather could not make it worse. In the images here are also birds, dogs and insects. They shared the yard and due to organic gardening I never had a problem with insect infestations. This gallery is arranged by the date the images were taken. The last shot of Libbi is shortly before we left. I found a nearby gardener to take my large pots and the rest went in the trash. The furniture was donated to a local charity. I dismanteled the irrigation system and the management removed all the shrubs and plants. When I started cruising the city for images a man shooed me out of his yard and told me if I wanted to take photographs of flowers, grow my own garden. So I did. I love my home now and a balcony garden is incredible. Being off the ground floor is wonderful. As beautiful as it was there is nothing there that I would go back to or have again as furniture etc. The following is a defination from Wikipedia about Microclimates. A microclimate is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas. Because climate is a statistic, which implies spatial and temporal variation of the mean values of the describing parameters, it is clear that within a region could occur and persist in time, sets of statiscally distinct conditions, i.e., microclimates. The term may refer to areas as small as a few square meters or square feet (for example a garden bed) or as large as many square kilometers or square miles. Microclimates exist, for example, near bodies of water which may cool the local atmosphere, or in heavy urban areas where brick, concrete, and asphalt absorb the sun's energy, heat up, and re-radiate that heat to the ambient air: the resulting urban heat island is a kind of microclimate.

These images are a rare glimpse into my editing process. I capture in RAW and finish them in post processing with several different software programs. I have changed my process of storing them and now I lock them up because I realize that professionalism also extends to the care I have for my equipment and my digital assets. El Paso sits on the border of the United States and Mexico. Street photography here is a little different than other cities, especially tourist cities. We had a drug war here for many years and it is possible to capture what you think is a street scene or actually no scene at all and have it be something very different. Some Street Photographers like Steven McCurry are well known. There was information that several years ago he had a lot of blowback on the subject of editing (and over editing) his images. The degree to which we process our images has always been a hot debate. All the way back to Ansel Adams and his proficiency at dodge and burning his images. There are two days here, August 27th and August 31st. They were captured in RAW and finished in post-processing. If you like you can compare the RAW images to my finished ones.

I have not a camera that flies. (thinking about it though) These images are from Google Maps (copyrighted) and NASA (uncopyrighted). Google parses maps from several satellites into one image so there are sometimes differences in color and sharpness. The time of the images shot, cloudiness, pollution and other weather factors will influence an image also. Aerial images are fascinating to me. No matter if they are just of terra firma or places that are populated with living people. The textures, lines and colors are amazing and can be looked at for hours. I was never into maps drawn from the surface but aerial maps are fascinating. None are for sale, although NASA's are royalty free and many times the originals are available for downloading. They even have galleries to upload the ones you edit to.