4 years ago, 9Apr2020, the black lines of Winter are giving way to the new leaves of Spring...

I'm always looking into/through the trees and foilage when I'm walking, trying to capture what I'm seeing with my eyes, with my camera. The different tools in my editng software have been fun to play with, and sometimes I get results that I like. I shoot in Auto, and I push the shutter button just enough see the auto focus points. Moving the framing to what looks interesting, and adjusting the lens manually, I often take multiple shots with different focal points. In this post, I cropped and zoomed in with each edit without any "creative" computer software tricks. I did like the black and white photo though.

When I was walking over the bridge the other day, I remember thinking "it's time for some more bridge Wood shots"...

UW campus 7 tears ago, on 2Apr2017...another looking through trees photo

This is a shot similar to the one I posted on Sunday, from a few years ago, with different weather.

from my walk along the river this morning...

more shots from our visit to Alona Beach on Panglao Island, Bohol last month...

I like looking at trees through trees. This time of the year, early Spring, the black lines of leafless trees are still here, but add in some early morning sunshine like the background in these shots... I'm seeing lines, texture, color, and layers.

I went over to the wooden walkway across the street today. It meanders through a wooded area that allows pedestrians to bypass a narrow stretch of the roadway there. Lots of bare trees still, but the leaves and greens are coming back. Spring...

I went out for my first photo walk since our return this morning. 44F, the warmest temp this year so far, but for me, Cold!! The temp in Cebu was 77F. The Sammamish River walk was nice, and the early morning sun gave me some nice shadows and colors.

We arrived back in the US 3 days ago, following a 48 hour journey. We had two long layovers en route. Today is Thursday, the 14th, and we get to walk our 6 yo twin granddaughters home from school this afternoon. Joy... It's a balmy 53F outside right now, and sunny! It's 75F in Cebu. I like going back and editing photos I passed on the first time around. Thinking about my tree photos over the years, these are from our excursion up to Toong above Cebu City in January. The views were amazing, and I love the coconut trees...

"leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again..."

"Spaghetti wires" are an issue here, but I often played with them as just lines in the images I chose to shoot. In the first two shots, the buildings windows and their colors compete with the chaos of the wires. In the taxi window shot, the torn window sunscreen did the same thing. The humor in the last two shots was priceless.