Category: photography

One Way or Another

Thanks to Amanda for setting the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge this week a challenge called ‘Two Ways‘. Amanda’s looking for two presentations of the same thing – two different ways. Perhaps photographs taken of the same place at different times, or a single photograph processed in two different ways.

It’s true that when you take photographs you have choices of when to take, how to take it, how to process it and how to present it. Here are a selection of my images that, I hope, fit the brief.

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Focus on Nature

Generally, a nature shot focusses on a particular subject, perhaps a bird, an insect, or a flower. To get a good image, it’s best that the subject in sharp focus, and often the use of automatic camera focussing is essential.

But even if it is a sharp image, there are some other strategies to help ensure the viewer will not simply glimpse at it and move on to the next image, but instead to linger and examine the image more closely.

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Express your Feelings

I’ve put together this post in response to a challenge set by a horse. What!!!!

The subject of the challenge is Communication. What does “communication” mean to me? — so many many things – and we’re all on communication overload at the moment, except for one thing.

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Startling Symmetry

The search for symmetry, and the emotional pleasure we derive when we find it, must help us make sense of the the seasons and the reliability of friendships.

Alan Lightman

In taking photographs, I more commonly seek to change out of a symmetrical view. I try mostly to get an angle on the subject and to achieve some flow through or around the image.

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