Enjoy the sun. Relax. Mow the lawn. Harvest the fruits. Rake the beds. Invite your friends.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Signs
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Rules of the Garden
Tag: garden
See How They Run
Nancy at A Photo a Week asked for a photo or two with unexpected point of focus this week.
On Sundays, I sometimes take my camera on a run and take photos along the way. I have to be fast and the autofocus doesn’t always understand that it is about the people I’m with. The results are often unexpected.
And autofocus is usually not thinking like I am thinking when I spot something behind a fence.
Although the effect is not always the worst.
A Photo a Week: Unexpected Focus
Instant colour
I enjoy flowers. I enjoy gardens.
I do not enjoy gardening nor do I have a green thumb.
But in spring pansies and forget-me-nots are a fast way to fake it.
Linked to the On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Start a garden.
My, how you have grown!
That’s the last photo on my SC card for March. A parting shot of the magnolia tree in our back yard before turning in for the day.
It was planted seven years ago and is going from strength to strength.
That’s vor Bushboy’s Last on the Card.
Garden
Behind the fence there is a garden with a stall selling drinks and snacks.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Garden.
Go forth, my heart, and seek delight
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Gardens.
The title is the English translation of a German church hymn, written by Paul Gerhardt and published in 1653:
Geh aus mein Herz und suche Freud
Go forth, my heart, and seek delight
In all the gifts of God’s great might,
These pleasant summer hours:
Look how the plains for thee and me
Have decked themselves most fair to see,
All bright and sweet with flowers.
The trees stand thick and dark with leaves,
And earth o’er all here dust now weaves
A robe of living green;
Nor silks of Solomon compare
With glories that the tulips wear,
Or lilies’ spotless sheen.
Evil is as evil does
“Perspective” and knowing what your main topic is – or, in my case, this often means only finding out later when I review my photos what the main topic was.
When I am out and about with my running friends I often snap photos – literally snap because I’m there to participate in the fun and taking pictures comes second. Usually my main objective is to capture the people that are there with me. We were having a break from our jogging/hiking day at the shores of Lake Constance. Beer was waiting for us bobbing on the waves. I like the fancy clothes people are wearing at these occasions and I am particularly drawn to runners’ socks and their messages.
The next four shots were all taken at a pre-wedding party. I was there with my camera and my brief was to take pictures of the guests as unobtrusively as possible.
In the first photo the focus is very obviously on the people and the overall garden setting showing off the newly acquired house of the soon-to-be-weds and the party area in front. Not a great shot per se but one setting the mood and showing the crowd. The second photo was taken from the same position but focussing on the balcony with its pretty flowers and the bird cut-out and reflection in the window.
The following two shots are again taken with completely different objectives in mind. The first one shows three guests on a cigarette break, totally unawares of being photographed. I liked the way they were standing next to the little amorette all in white. It would have been better if the third person had not been blocked by the one in the middle (I could have moved to the right to avoid that). The second shot focusses clearly on the head of one of the women. I found the colours of her dyed hair fascinating. Coming to think of it, this would have been a good photo to illustrate the 2/3 rule, bokeh and all.
CEE’S COMPOSE YOURSELF PHOTO CHALLENGE: WEEK #13 Perspective
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