Scott Blackwell Photography

I've been taking photos for as long as I can remember.

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I love running some of my pictures through #Prisma. The filters are adjustable, so you can either go with a full-on effect, or just a subtle touch. Love it.

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Monday blues. I try not to consciously think of how I want to photograph things. I find that planning it takes the spontaneity & the joy from it. So generally I just pick up the camera and go.

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I love when a picture just happens. I really didn't put a lot of thought into this. I just saw it next to my car at lunchtime. Simple. Beautiful.

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5ive Vintage Market, Prescott, Arizona

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Untappd by Scott Blackwell Via Flickr: I love craft beer. I am always seeking out new beers and breweries, and then (of course) posting about it on Instagram (@scottb211) and Flickr

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Sometimes I like to stop off somewhere on the drive home from work, and try to find something to photograph. There's a western art museum, the Phippen Museum, just north of town, so I grabbed a couple there. I like this one.

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<untitled> by Scott Blackwell Via Flickr: Stopped at the Phippen Museum parking area, and found that it's also the parking area for the Constellation Trails system west of Hwy 89

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Happy Hour

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One thing I like to do to continue to feel creative is to kind of 'challenge' myself by taking an older picture (or even a recent one) that wasn't overly interesting by itself, and find a way to add something to it. This was taken years ago in my hometown of #WellsboroPA. Post-processing effects via #Snapseed.

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Driving up the 395 along the Eastern Sierras.

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My Saturday night My Saturday nights usually consist of a craft beer (or two) and a movie on the TV. Taken on my Moto X and then heavily processed in Snapseed.

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Electric

One of the things that I love about applying filters from my favorite apps is that sometimes you go deep with an effect (even over-processing it), and it goes beyond the original image and becomes something else, something unexpected.

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Relics

Cropped and silhoutted from this pic

Going back a few years from my Flickr page.

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Country roads

When I lived back in PA, Sundays were the day I'd generally wake up late and quite often hungover. Since I'd already spent most of the weekend with friends, and household chores would be too tedious (or painful), I'd end up jumping in the car for a impromptu drive. Windows down, music playing... it was like therapy.  

The great thing about these drives is that I could just pick a road and take it, because I knew that wherever I ended up, I knew how to get back home. :)  

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Ethereal

One morning I was driving to work, and as I drove up towards the lake, I saw that a woman had pulled over and was taking pictures of the fog (a rare sight for us) over the boulders at the end of the lake. I quickly realized it was too late for me to pull in where she was. So I drove a little further up, and quickly jumped out to take these.

It was well worth it.

More at my Flickr page, www.flickr.com/scottb211.

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Grazing herd.

Another circumstance where I was driving home on Glassford Hill Road outside of Prescott Valley, and saw a group of antelope grazing near the road and just had to pull over.

Of course, as soon as I pulled over, the antelope quickly moved back from the road. Luckily they didn't go far, so I just rolled the window down and started snapping. Too cool.

You can see a couple more that I took of these guys on my Flickr page.

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"Blue Sky"

One of the things I love about Arizona is that quite often I will walk outside after work, and the sky is just beautiful — full of color and fluidity. You just never know what you're going to see.

With this particular photo, I was so inspired I didn't even wait to open up my car and grab the DSLR — I just whipped out my cell phone, snapped this, and sat in the car for the next ten minutes tweaking it in Snapseed to get it to what you see here. Sure, there's a lot of noise in it, but I wasn't going for a pristine image. I just wanted to capture a moment. :)