Winter sun

I photographed these images, experimented with different types of tuning, edited and named them. I know them. I think they know me by now.

Yet seeing them published for the first time reminds me of the butterflies somewhere in my stomach. The ones that sleep most of the time, yet now - they are definitely up, fluttering around.

A bit like sending your child to the park by himself for the first time. Will he be OK? Will he find his friends there?

Here it is. Israeli lens #6. The first unveiling of the "Winter sun" portfolio. 

Enjoy

When light meets time - experiments in photography

One of the things I like most about photography is that it sits right at the junction between science and art. A bridge between logic and emotion.

The image above is not a result of Photoshop. This is pure in-camera photography. Proof that the camera doesn't 'know' what it records, it just records light. It is up to us to control what is lighted and capture it in the frame. Nothing new here, right?

This week I started to experiment with controlled light (using the most basic flashlight, the 3$ type...) and long exposure. The results, can probably be much improved, but the potential is amazing. To literally show the invisible. Explore realms our eye can not see, but the lens can help us create.

And the best of all - a way to really have fun.

since leaving the hi-tech world, I am struggling to redefine the notion of success. I think the answer starts emerging. In flashes of light :)

If I had a sister - photography by Amy Kanka Valadarsky

Dancing

Just you and me

Who needs Photoshop when it's raining?

When it rains, it pours ....for the last 2 days it has been raining non stop.

The back yard, which used to be a lawn is now a puddle. Most of the time sitting quietly at home, but now it's Friday morning, when I always go buy sweet treats at a local bakery.

Sneaked out of the house when rain seemed to take a rest. 2 minutes later, still sitting in the car in the parking lot near the bakery all hell broke loose.

The only thing to do was to take my phone out and take pictures. Through the moving raindrops on my cars windshield.

Who needs Photoshop when its raining ??? ......

Follow the sun

For the last few month I've been spending time with the camera in a forest park. Being literally 5 driving minutes away from home, whenever the sun is blinding me when I drive my son to the train station in the morning - I know I should hurry back, grab the camera and go to the park.

Regardless of how many times I've been there, every time I go, I see something new.

This time, I wanted to go take some pictures of the rain pond before it dries up. Walking towards the rain pond, I suddenly saw the path created by sun rays streaming through the trees.

It was there for a few minutes, then the sun moved and the path vanished. Reminded me of the stories where the sun hitting the opening in a cave wall shows the way to the buried treasures.

Pure magic, painted by the sun. A first glimpse at a new portfolio coming up soon ...