
Notes: I like this image for its similar color palette to the “Shark Tooth Cactus”, and also for how well it lends itself to abstraction.

Notes: I like this image for its similar color palette to the “Shark Tooth Cactus”, and also for how well it lends itself to abstraction.

Notes: Talk about a looming sky! This one changed a charming carnival ride into a menacing, mechanical, crazed-looking calamari.

Notes: In somber tones reminiscent of a platinum print, the shapes and shadows of the gourds signaled summer was over, even on this sunny day.

Notes: It looked as if the looming winter sky was sticking its bright, pink tongue out at me – in a friendly sort of way.

Notes: The winter sky was the perfect foil for this day-glo colored carnival ride.

Notes: I think it was the pink that drew my eye, but it was the form and repetition of shapes that held it.

Notes: Swirls of apricot, pale pink, lavender and lemon form an image that is simultaneously soothing and a bit dizzying.

Notes: Light from the middle of the Twentieth Century was stuck in this showroom. I had to set some of it free.

Notes: I prefer the gold leaves and green figs on a backdrop of antique paper rather than the gray sky that actually engulfed them.
Notes: The green moss on the bare, snow-dusted tree was a breath of life betraying the appearance of wintry death in this snowscape.
All images © 2012 Ron Kaplan