May 2011 wallpaper

A little bit late, but here's my desktop wallpaper for May. It's a companion photograph to Gliding, which I shot in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico earlier this year. Both of them were taken near the Fort San Felipe del Morro as I watched people walk along the pathway to the fort itself.

I was fascinated by the different shapes and angles created by the silhouetted people as they walked by and the contrast between them and the low-hanging clouds in the sky. It makes me think they're walking among them.

May 2011 Wallpaper — Desktop Large (2560 x 1600) May 2011 Wallpaper — Desktop Small (1280 x 800) May 2011 Wallpaper — iPad (1024 x 1024) May 2011 Wallpaper — iPhone (960 x 640)

April 2011 wallpaper

Well, it seems I've let a whole month slip by without talking to you. Sorry for that; it's been a busy March, but I promise to make up for it in April.

I've chosen this image for April's wallpaper for a couple of reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that April is the month of Easter, Passover, and other religious celebrations, so it seems appropriate. However, it's also the one-year anniversary of my trip to Italy and the amazing Within the Frame workshop in Genoa and the Cinque Terre with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman. While "life-changing" might be a bit of an exaggerated description of the trip, it's not too much so, since so many amazing opportunities have come from this trip and the friendships I made there. I have some of the best memories of my life from this trip.

I made this image in a church in Portofino after having wandered off from the group by myself, something I did quite a bit of for most of the workshop. (Jeffrey even had to come back and find me on the very first day!) It was a bit dark inside and so I used my newly acquired 85mm f/1.8 wide open to both isolate the cross and give myself a fast enough shutter speed to hand hold the camera. There wasn't a lot of color in the image to begin with, so I chose to process it as a monotone image, but keeping the warm, brassy color from the cross. I hope you enjoy it.

April 2011 Wallpaper — Desktop Large (2560 x 1600) April 2011 Wallpaper — Desktop Small (1280 x 800) April 2011 Wallpaper — iPad (1024 x 1024) April 2011 Wallpaper — iPhone (640 x 960)

March 2011 wallpaper

As I write this, there's still snow on the ground and temperatures are still hovering around freezing, which makes it kind of difficult to think of spring and flowers and warmer days. I thought it would be a good idea to remind us of that.

Despite the unusually snowy winter this year, at least within recent memory, spring is indeed just around the corner. I made this photograph of a few crocuses pushing through the early spring ground last year during my One Camera/One Lens/One Month project, and I thought it would be good to give you a reminder of spring's renewal. I hope you like it.

March 2011 Wallpaper — Desktop Large (2560 x 1600) March 2011 Wallpaper — Desktop Small (1280 x 800) March 2011 Wallpaper — iPad (1024 x 1024) March 2011 Wallpaper — iPhone (640 x 960)