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- about dan baxter by: danbaxter
July 16, 2008, 13:51
When I was a child, young, around 6 to 8 years old, my family and I (that is, my father and my siblings except my youngest brother who I had not yet come to…
- home by: danbaxter
July 28, 2009, 10:00
Soma-Sema Creative Photography features the artistic works of Dan Baxter. You will find a range of different types of images, from macro to landscape,…
- purchases by: djbaxter
August 12, 2009, 09:55
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- table of contents by: danbaxter
January 2, 2010, 12:56
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- General (1)
- Soma-Sema Creative Photography by: danbaxter
July 12, 2009, 13:09
Soma-Sema Creative Photography features the artisitc works of Dan Baxter. You will find a range of different types of images, from macro to landscape,…
- Soma-Sema Creative Photography by: danbaxter
- Abstract (7)
- The River Acheron by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:50
A great rusted chain hangs loosely across the gap of stiff metal bars that border the concrete of the Oxford Mills dam. A cheap hand-painted “No Trespassing…
- Black and Emptied Hearts by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:32
“…As we shall come to stop awhile upon the sorrowful shore of Acheron.” Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno. pg. 89, Lines 77-78,…
- Vexilla Regis Prodeunt Inferni by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:27
“Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni,” my master said, “closer to us, so now look ahead and see if you can make him out.” Translation: The banners…
- Ominous Silhouettes by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:22
And when I looked beyond this crowd I saw A throng upon the shore of wide river, Which made me ask, “Master, I would like to know: Who are these…
- O Lucifer, Son of the Morning! by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:19
stepped aside, and stopping me, announced: “This is is he, this is Dis; this is the place that calls for all the courage you have in you.” Alighie…
- I am the way into the doleful city by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:13
“I AM THE WAY INTO THE DOLEFUL CITY, I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL GRIEF, I AM THE WAY TO A FORSAKEN RACE. JUSTICE IT WAS THAT MOVED MY GREAT CREATOR; …
- ...And so I looked and saw a kind of banner... by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:10
“And so I looked and saw a kind of banner Rushing ahead, whirling with aimless speed As though it would not ever take a stand; Behind it an…
- The River Acheron by: danbaxter
- Architecture (3)
- Sanctuary by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 20:48
This is a church, which jars out of the ground in the center of the web of windswept streets of Ballater, Scotland. I ventured out on my own from under my…
- Pandaemonium by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 20:46
This is the reciprocal shot of Celestial Church. Pandaemonium is the first fortress Dante and his guide, Virgil, encounter in Hell. It is home to those…
- Gospel Torch by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 20:44
I got this while visiting a friend who, at the time, was attending Queen’s and living in a house in Kingston, Ontario, with a crazy group of guys. The…
- Sanctuary by: danbaxter
- Floral (33)
- Day Lilly VII by: danbaxter
July 28, 2009, 11:11
This is a photograph of a Lilly, one of seven such photographs. Each one of these was taken with my Nikon FM2 using Kodakrome colour positive slide film (100…
- Yellow Lilly by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:49
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- Untitled II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:48
My curiosity was aroused by this odd yellow flower blooming out of a much larger red flower. I still do not know what the species of genus is, but it is an…
- Untitled I by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:47
I visited the Botanical Gardens with a friend of mine, Josh Brown, whose own work can be seen at www.josbrownphoto.com. We were, unfortunately, not permitted…
- The Forlorn Petal by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:45
This shot was taken in Murphy’s Point Provincial Park just 45 minutes from my hometown of Kemptville, ON. I was using Fuji 400 ISO Sensia slide film at…
- The Cycle Respun by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:43
This is another photograph I took while visiting my cousin, Robin Rutherford Baxter, in Southampton, England, along with my other cousin, Chris Duguid of…
- Snow Blooms by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:42
Although it does appear that some black, skeletal plant is blooming frost, it’s actually just a fresh winter storm caught on a long dead cap of Queen…
- Scarlet Lychnis by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:40
This scarlet lychnis (Lychnis chalcedonica) flourished with a partner beneath a young and healthy poplar tree, content now that it can reach above the wall of…
- Purple Buds by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:37
I enjoy this shot because of the blood coloured stalks and blades, and because of the brown ones already dead foreshadowing the fate of everything within the…
- Phalaenopsis Orchid II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:36
This was shot in the Montreal Botanical Gardens after my battery died and took my exposure meter with it during the Phalaenopsis I shooting. At this point I…
- Phalaenopsis Orchid I by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:33
Although I had to take some stepping stones that weren’t open to the public in the Montreal Botanical Gardens to get in position for this shot, it was worth…
- Flower Reflection by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:31
This shot is a multiple exposure of a daisy and some blue-eyed grass of southern Ontario. I used 400 ISO T-max Black and White film using a slow shutter…
- Day Lilly VI by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:28
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- Day Lilly IV by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:27
This is a macro shot of the stamen of an orange Day Lily using my Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens at full zoom, my Nikon 6T close-up filter, taken at f/5.6-and-one-hal…
- Day Lilly V by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:25
This is a macro shot of the stamen of an orange Day Lily using my Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens at full zoom, my Nikon 6T close-up filter, taken at f/5.6-and-one-hal…
- Day Lilly III by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:24
This is a photograph of an orange Day Lily taken with my Sigma 70-300mm apochromatic zoom lens, my Nikon 6T close-up filter at 200mm from two feet away in the…
- Day Lilly II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:22
This is a photograph of a Yellow Day Lily, or Lemon Lily, which is actually an escaped Asiatic species of lily. I took this shot using my Sigma 70-300mm…
- Day Lilly and Scarlet Lychnis by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:20
This is a multiple exposure of a Day Lilly growing around a boulder and some rocks arranged in a small lily, tulip, poplar sapling and wild violet gathering…
- Day Lilly by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:18
By using the shade of a nearby tree as a backdrop and zooming in close enough to the flower by using a +2 close-up lens on my 135mm Nikon lens to allow the…
- Beauty in Waiting by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:08
It is part of human nature to strive to adapt to ones environment and eventually become as best suited for that environment as possible, or self-actualize, a…
- A Sinister Mystery by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:04
This is a macro photograph of the single deep scarlet floret of a Queen Anne’s Lace flower, which is the top, flat bundle of small white florets resting atop…
- Apple Blossom II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:03
The last dew drops perch anxious atop the infant apple blossom who laps up what she can before the late spring sun takes them all away. Soon, she’ll open,…
- Amongst the Daisies by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:01
I got down on my stomach, used my elbows as support to get his perspective, and used a slow shutter speed and wide aperture to blur the background flowers. I…
- Buttercups by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 07:35
I am not entirely sure - which happens sometimes! - if this is, indeed, a buttercup. I very much welcome anyone else's input (provided it is educated and not…
- Rose and Carnation II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 07:18
This is the third photograph I took of the rose at my cousin Robin's condo on Moodie Drive about two years ago. For information on exposure and equipment,…
- Blue Flower III by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 06:59
This is the third variation of the Blue Flower series. For information on exposure settings, tactics, etc., please refer to "Blue Flower I" in the Floral…
- Blue Flower II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 06:40
This is another shot from the same Blue Flower from the experimental farm gardens in Ottawa, ON. All the same equipment, exposure settings and techniques…
- Apple Blossom by: danbaxter
July 26, 2009, 18:42
This is a photo of an apple blossom taken at late dawn before the dew had a chance to melt. The shade of the tree's leaves ensured that the dew on this…
- Violet Echo by: danbaxter
July 26, 2009, 18:36
I believe these are African Violets, but I am not 100% certain. This photograph was taken during the same outting to the experimental farm gardens in Ottawa,…
- Rose and Carnation by: danbaxter
July 26, 2009, 18:26
This is a photo of a rose in the foreground and a white carnation in the background. It was taken using my Sigma 70-300mm at about 200mm zoom and near its…
- Blue Flower I by: danbaxter
July 26, 2009, 16:01
Unfortunately, I do not know what species of flower this is. It was taken at the experimental farm gardens in Ottawa, ON. I was using my Nikon D200 and my…
- Rose Portal by: danbaxter
July 26, 2009, 15:48
This is a photograph of a rose taken straight on. I took it indoors, but the light source is overcast sunlight streaming in through a glass sliding patio…
- Hibiscus Flower by: danbaxter
July 26, 2009, 15:39
This is a close-up photograph of a Hibiscus flower I took in my cousin Robin's backyard when we lived together in a condo on Moodie Drive, Ottawa, ON. It was…
- Day Lilly VII by: danbaxter
- Nature (33)
Scenes of animals, birds, insects, natural landscapes, and storm photography
- One Winter's Dawn by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:12
In the frozen calm of a mid-winter dawn, after mounting my camera on the tripod and getting all my gear ready, I walk briskly across my driveway and into the…
- Autopator's Secret II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:11
This is a companion shot to Autopator’s Secret; to see a full interpretation, visit the description of this photograph. For more information on Autopator,…
- The Flames of Autumn by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:09
This tree began blossoming into fall colours much sooner than the rest on my property. It was buried within the hedge of thorn trees and vines that segregates…
- Oak Leaves in the Fall by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:08
I took this shot using my Nikon FM2 loaded with Fujifilm 400 ISO, a blue filter on my cokin mount, my 50mm 1.8 Nikkor lens, and a shaded patch of rain soaked…
- Oak Leaves in the Fall II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:06
This is the companion shot of Oak Leaves in the Fall I. A detailed description of technique and set-up can be viewed in the description of this companion…
- Autopator's Secret by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:05
This is a shot of a small section of the famous fall foliage of Gatineau Provincial Park (http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/bins/ncc_web_content_page.asp?cid=1629…
- Eclipse II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:02
This photograph was taken during a lunar eclipse in the winter of ‘04-‘05. I took this using a long exposure, about 5 minutes, with a wide aperture. …
- Eclipse I by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:01
This photograph was taken during a lunar eclipse in the winter of ‘04-‘05. I took this using a long exposure, about 5 minutes, with a wide aperture. …
- Pannanick Pond II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:58
This is the partner shot of Pannanick Pond. For my personal thoughts and interpretations of these shots together, see the description of Pannanick Pond. I…
- Pannanick Pond I by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:57
This pond and the hills that span the background of this shot are the old proving and roving grounds of my cousin Chris Duguid’s youth in the lethargic town…
- Caterpillar Drinking from Raindrop by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:53
I caught this little guy stretching out, perhaps to take a cool drink from the fresh raindrop caught in the pine needles. The criss-crossing of the pines…
- Caterpillar Nest at Sunset by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:51
I took this shot at sunset, hence the golden glow to the caterpillar and the background. I underexposed by a stop, shooting at f/5.6, 1/30 on Kodak Elitechrom…
- Long-Horned Beetle by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:50
I took this shot using my Sigma 70-300mm apochromatic zoom lens at full zoom and my Nikon 6T close-up lens from a foot and a half away, using a shutter speed…
- Orchard Mason Bee Female by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:48
On the yard of an old house I used to live in with my father and older brother, there are several apple trees that blossom around the same time (though there…
- Sweet Nectar, Food of the Gods by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:46
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- Vengeance by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:43
Generally, I’m not a die hard fan of disaster photography, though I can understand the importance to document certain occasions. However, there is…
- Universal Microcosm by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:40
Knowing your camera’s metering system is crucial. Nowadays, with digital cameras, one has the option of being able to switch between varying degrees of…
- Gemini by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:38
In the shadows, in the blades of light that pierce the thicket of thorn and leaf, seeds grow. Possibility is everywhere. These apples, weathered as you can…
- The Dead Wood by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:36
This photograph is from Panannick Hill, one of a towering, ridge-like series that forms the nest around Ballater, Scotland. An hour from now and a surprise…
- Milkweed Buds by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:34
This is a close-up of a batch of milkweed buds on a luminescent summer day. I took this on 400 ISO print film using my 135mm Nikon lens with a +2 dioptics…
- I Dream of Life by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:32
This is another botanical gardens shot. By a small pool of water, and by the polite pattering of a small stream sliding into it, I took out my Nikon 6T…
- Eden's Apple Tree in Blossom by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:30
The idea of man’s fall from his original Utopia is not an invention of Western religion. Before there was an Eden, there was Pandora of Hesiod’s…
- Dawn on the Frost by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 22:27
The ground dips between my house and the neighbours. Nestled in the shadow of the cedar line between my house and the road, a patch of fine bladed grass…
- A Fire in the Distance by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 21:52
A sunset seen through the shade of a poplar sapling. To take this I used a polarizer, and an orange filter mounted on my 135mm Nikon lens with my cokin…
- Female Red Crossbill by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 19:06
This is a photograph of a female Red Crossbill taken in the winter of 2008. Since I was young, I have always been an avid birdwatcher. Admittedly, I have…
- Wild Cherries by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 18:53
I have often seen in very amateur photography a picture that is black and white except for a single rose in colour, or a stop sign that sticks out in bold…
- A Vibrant Transition by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 07:50
This photograph was taken using large JPG format on my Nikon D200 with my Sigma 70-300mm zoom set to 200mm from around 2m distance. I kept my depth of field…
- The Vain Chickadee by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 07:41
I can't be entirely sure, but I'm fairly certain this chickadee knew he was being photographed. He really does appear to be coaxing me into photographing him…
- Lightning III by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 07:16
When compared to Lightning II, you can see how you can choose, in the post-processing of a photo, to boost either the blue or the violet spectras. For this…
- Lightning II by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 07:13
This was taken at the same time as Lightning I. With digital photos of lightning, you kind of have your choice as to whether you want to boost the violet…
- Backlit Leaf by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 07:07
It was a tiring and off day all the way through; but, in the mid afternoon, I mustered the time and energy to go out for the first time into the woods near my…
- Lightning I by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 06:56
Storm photography is definitely wrought with its own difficulties and dangers. To begin with, you usually want to set your ISO to 400 or so, something fast…
- Water Droplets on Leaves by: danbaxter
July 26, 2009, 18:47
In all honesty, I took this photograph for a friend because she told me that her favourite colour was green. By manipulating depth-of-field and choosing an…
- One Winter's Dawn by: danbaxter
- Portraits (3)
- Window of Opportunity by: danbaxter
July 29, 2009, 09:06
This photograph is of my oldest friend with whom I have since had to part ways. I have known him since I was two and half, or three years old, and he is…
- King Mountain by: danbaxter
July 29, 2009, 09:01
This is a photograph of another friend that I would not say has had a usual life, and so her story is not easily estimable; nevertheless, the elements in this…
- Arias by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:24
Unfortunately, none of the portraiture I'll be posting on this site will be for sale. I am posting them so that I can discuss how to do well made portraits…
- Window of Opportunity by: danbaxter
- Stonehenge (5)
- The Mystics of the Stones by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:22
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- The Trespass by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:21
This shot was taken with a Cokin filter system red filter on a 50mm Nikon e-series lens and 400 ISO print film with my FM2. I used a shutter speed of 1/125…
- The Seduction by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:20
This photograph was taken with the same set-up as The Trespass: my 50mm 1.8 Nikkor, my cokin filter system and my red filter. I kept the aperture small…
- The Cleansing by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:18
I took this shot using a circular polarizer, a cheaper variety of Kodak 400 ISO print film at a shutter speed bracketed between 1/500 and 1/2000 of a second, a…
- Exodus by: danbaxter
July 27, 2009, 23:15
This is the last installment in the Journey of the Stones series, for which I will post a link soon. Exodus shows us a guiding light leading the ever-silhouet…
- The Mystics of the Stones by: danbaxter
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Soma-Sema Photography- Window of Opportunity July 29, 2009This photograph is of my oldest friend with whom I have since had to part ways. I have known him since I was two and half, or three years old, and he is essentially a third brother to me. In all the nearly 20 years we have known each other, this is the only photograph […]danbaxter
- King Mountain July 29, 2009This is a photograph of another friend that I would not say has had a usual life, and so her story is not easily estimable; nevertheless, the elements in this photograph capture some of the places she’s been, but more of where she is now, and of where she is travelling in the future. Like […]danbaxter
- Day Lilly VII July 28, 2009This is a photograph of a Lilly, one of seven such photographs. Each one of these was taken with my Nikon FM2 using Kodakrome colour positive slide film (100 ISO) and my Sigma 70-300mm apochromatic macro zoom lens. I had to use a tripod for this shot because both flowers were in the shade of […]danbaxter
- Arias July 28, 2009Unfortunately, none of the portraiture I’ll be posting on this site will be for sale. I am posting them so that I can discuss how to do well made portraits that capture a person’s personality and history in a frame. Arias is the angel of sweet smelling herbs (though, also considered a demon in some […]danbaxter
- The Mystics of the Stones July 28, 2009©2010 Soma-Sema.com. All Rights Reserved.. […]danbaxter
- The Trespass July 28, 2009This shot was taken with a Cokin filter system red filter on a 50mm Nikon e-series lens and 400 ISO print film with my FM2. I used a shutter speed of 1/125 bracketed through to 1/1000 at f/8-f/16. I had to sacrifice some over-exposure in the sky to bring up the right level of contrast […]danbaxter
- The Seduction July 28, 2009This photograph was taken with the same set-up as The Trespass: my 50mm 1.8 Nikkor, my cokin filter system and my red filter. I kept the aperture small (f/22), my shutter high, and underexposed by a stop. For a metaphysical interpretation of this in a series of Stonehenge photographs, I invite you to take The […]danbaxter
- The Cleansing July 28, 2009I took this shot using a circular polarizer, a cheaper variety of Kodak 400 ISO print film at a shutter speed bracketed between 1/500 and 1/2000 of a second, a 28mm lens and my usual Nikon FM2. The polarizer was angled for maximum effect (90 degrees from the angle of the sun’s light, giving a […]danbaxter
- Exodus July 28, 2009This is the last installment in the Journey of the Stones series, for which I will post a link soon. Exodus shows us a guiding light leading the ever-silhouetted procession to finally pass out of the place of ancient mysticism and walk renewed in the living, visceral world (note: the procession enters The Trespass to […]danbaxter
- One Winter’s Dawn July 28, 2009In the frozen calm of a mid-winter dawn, after mounting my camera on the tripod and getting all my gear ready, I walk briskly across my driveway and into the southwest corner of the yard. I set up, compose the shot with the available space provided by my 28mm Nikon lens, and calculate my exposure. […]danbaxter
- Window of Opportunity July 29, 2009
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