A New Year! A fresh start! – Well, I feel it’ll take a bit longer but we can all hope for an improvement in our circumstances as 2021 progresses. I wish you all peace, prosperity and good health for the coming year. While the last year has been hard, I’m very clear that others have had a truly dreadful time and I feel I’ve been very lucky.
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Swan Sculptures
My last post about the Long-tailed Duck, that unexpected visitor to our local park, led me to recall one of my earliest visits to the park pond with a decent DSLR camera.
Read more – more imagesThe Sun will come out tomo…
During our first lockdown back in the spring, the sun shone for weeks on end. Beautiful weather! It really took the edge off those difficult times. We could always get out for a quiet walk or tend to our small garden. In this our second lockdown — well, it’s November in Scotland — we’ve just had the wettest October for decades – and the clouds are still gathering.
Read more – more imagesFocus 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.
More ImagesPeace Artistes
When I left the Gallery of Modern Art that day (link), I ambled down to the Merchant City Festival. Always an exciting event in Glasgow with all sorts of entertainment spread over a two week extravaganza.
Read more – more imagesThe Gallery Hideaway
When I read Leya’s Lens-Artists Challenge was to be about ‘My Hideaway’, I had to scratch my head. The main place I successfully hideaway is inside the covers of a good book, but I didn’t believe I could do justice with photographs of my books.
Read more – more imagesExpress 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.
Continue reading “Express your Feelings”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.
Read more – More imagesNegative Space – a challenge
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge 114
Reacting to Amy’s Photo Challenge, I initially found myself a bit lost – Negative Space??? I do have a tendency to fill the frame, but nevertheless had a look through my back catalogue for images with negative space.
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