June 17, 2024

This is really an unusual photo and one that not everyone likes. Why? I think because they figure out what it is pretty quickly, and they don’t like it. I found this bounty of red and yellow at the bottom of a local campground/city park trash can. It is of course, a bunch of McDonald’s trash. But at least it didn’t end up on the ground, but where it belonged after use. The round symmetry and the red forms are really great to me. I hope you like it. Olympus EM1.2 12j-40/2.8…….as usual

More portraits of the Asphalt paving machines outside my house a few weeks ago. The warning symbol was on the huge machine that mills the street, grinding off the top layer of asphalt before it gets repaved. The third photo I thought very cool, which is the hub of one of those big rolling machines that flattens the asphalt.

They were paving my street a few weeks ago and on Saturday/Sunday the paving equipment was sitting around, waiting for the Monday crew to use it to actually pave the street. I went out there and there were lots of red, yellow, orange, and asphalt. While not a typical subject, I love the bright colors, hard lines, and interesting contrasts. It also often is great in direct sunlight, unlike many other more typical subjects. These all with my trusty Olympus E-M1 Mk 2 and 12-40/2.8