All ye who enter here
It’s often the unexpected that ends up making a good photo.
I’ve started on another four-month odyssey on the staff of a state representative during the year’s legislative session. Yesterday afternoon about 4 p.m., as the sunlight mellowed, I walked down the stairs and took my G9 next door to Iolani Palace to see what I could see.
I quickly got immersed in the huge banyan tree behind the palace, where generations of visitors have carved the names and initials of loved ones or just their marks behind for posterity. I assumed one of those end up being the photo of the day.
I had gotten up the stairs of the capitol and all the way to the elevator when a passing image caught up with me, so I turned around and retraced my steps. There it was, an interesting image with a touch of ambiguity. The unfortunate thing is that the placement of the message on the stairs made it impossible to frame a symetrical image. Perhaps I doesn’t really matter. I hope not.
I tried this image in both color and B&W, eventually deciding that the B&W conversion was the best.
Canon G9
f/3.2
1/250 second
ISO 200
Focal length 7.4mm (35mm equivalent)
