Photo Composition: The Greeting and the Gift

It's not easy to take photos of the sculpture grouping, The Greeting and the Gift.

The two sculptures, one of an American Indian and the other of a Mountain Man, are placed 20 yards or more apart, on either side of a bridge spanning I-25N.

Because it's on a bridge, it's hard to get a panoramic shot of the sculptures - especially if it's a grey day!

I took these photos with my Galaxy SIII smartphone, on a cloud-covered day. I'll have to revisit on a sunnier day and try again.

But for now...

The Greeting and the Gift: click on photo to see full size.

The Robe-clad Native American holding a ceremonial buffalo horn filled with sweet water

Look at the Mountain Man's arm, follow it down, the Indian is the dark spot in the center!

Photo Composition: Welcome to Wyoming Signs

Here are three photos I took of the Welcome to Wyoming sign on the border of Colorado and Wyoming via US-85.

The first photo shows the Welcome to Wyoming sign with the Sand Creek Massacre Trail sign centered underneath it.

The second shows the Welcome to Wyoming sign with the Sand Creek Massacre Trail sign to the left.

(Of course both those photos would be better if you could actually read the text of the Sand Creek Massacre Trail sign, but my Galaxy IIIS wasn't up to the task.  I'll go back eventually with my Cybershot and see if I can't do better with it.)

And finally - and the one I use as a backdrop to this blog - there's the Welcome to Wyoming sign angled so that the wind farm on the opposite side of the road can be seen.  Thanks to Wyoming's ever present wind, there are a lot of wind farms here.

Welcome to Wyoming sign

Welcome to Wyoming sign

Welcome to Wyoming and the Wind Farm across the highway

I've left the Comments section enabled. Which photo do you like best?

Photo Composition: Three different views of the same building

As I stood in front of Borderline, the store on the border between Colorado and Wyoming that sells Colorado lottery tickets and scratch-offs, I took several photos.

I took one straight on, for purely information purposes:

Borderline - head on view

But then I took some photos from different angles, to see if the photos could be made to be more "exciting."

Borderline, complete building, and my car

This angle shows the complete Borderline building, with its drive-thru and a few picnic tables for those who wish to sit outside to enjoy the weather.

The car, a 1998 Toyota Camry, is my car. You'll be seeing that car in a lot more photos during the course of this blog!  It will be one of my "photographic conceits" - always getting a shot of that car in one of my photos.

Windfarm to the southwest of Borderline

I don't have a wide-angle lens on my camera. As a matter of fact, I didn't take these photos with my camera (a Cybershot DSC-HX300) but rather with my smartphone, a Galaxy IIIS. And of course that doesn't have a wide-angle lens...though I could have done a panorama shot.

In any event, working with what I had, I got the name of the business, Borderline, in the photo, and to the left, of course, a shot of one of the ubiquitous wind farms in the region.

I'm leaving the comments section open on this blog - which photo do you like best?