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Looking Up, Looking Down

The world looks a bit different depending on your viewpoint. In taking photographs I’ve always been encouraged to shoot from various angles as a slight change can substantially alter and perhaps improve the resulting photograph…. especially true when using a wide angle lens. And we know sometimes we should get down on our knees to take a photo, but then, for me, it seems to be getting harder to get back up again.

So for this challenge, I want to go for the extremes of Looking Up, and Looking Down, to show the effects of what you can capture at these angles and get a different perspective on our view of the world.

Asymmetrical

Lens-Artist Challenge #274

Last week, I tried to cover symmetry and show some images that showed this reflection about an axis. Now I’ve been prompted By Donna at Wind Kisses blog to consider Asymmetry. Well, I know one thing is that such images shouldn’t be symmetrical but should despite that show some balance. I’ll try with this selection.

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Symmetry

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #273

Symmetry – the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other across a line, a plane or around an axis.

Sofia of photographias blog challenges us to show images that illustrate symmetry …..and more than that those images which show how symmetry is “an important tool to compose strong and appealing photos”.

Living on the Edge

(from Oct 2016)
Down on the rocks near Troon harbour, I looked for seabirds – anything at all. I could see eider ducks, oystercatchers, cormorants and gulls – plenty. Then looking back into the sunlight, I just spotted a little movement on the flat rocks. A family of four little Ringed Plovers were ‘coorying doon’ out of the wind behind a wee ridge. The strong sun behind them wasn’t going to give me a good shot, so I moved in a great half circle round to get the light directly on to them.

One Small Spider

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #29

We’re not keen on spiders in our house. I don’t think I’ve photographed one before. But when I saw this in the sunlight and when the spider was quite small, I thought why not.

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Wild Animals

The first wild animal I thought of for this post was my daughter’s dog, Max. Now he is definitely a wild animal. However, I guess he doesn’t qualify for this post as he is technically a pet. And I don’t have masses of wild animal photographs but I’ve found a few of interest that I had almost forgotten that I had taken.

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Ladybirds

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #27

For Denzil’s challenge, I really wanted to go out to the garden and get some new ladybird photos, but not one ladybug to be seen there. So I’m supplying some archive images here – some were taken indoors before returning the wee charmers to the garden.

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Butterfly Collecting

I’ve just been reading in the BBC History magazine about a wealthy lady of the 17^th century, whose abusive and estranged husband successfully challenged her will following her decease. He claimed that she was not of sound mind when she left all her property to her cousin. Among the evidence he cited of her madness was that she was obsessed with the collection of butterflies and moths.

Nature Photo Challenge – Corvids

This week, Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge is looking for images of the crow family. Wherever I go I seem to come across crows but it’s no surprise to me that I don’t have that many photos of them.

The main reason for this is that it’s hard to get good detailed photographs of black birds unless the sun is really on them, lighting up their feathers.

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Seedheads

Denzil gave us a nature photo challenge to show images of seedheads. I think it’s quite hard to get some good pictorial views, especially now when we’re in the middle of a dull rainy spell.

There are of course many plants which are bearing seed at the moment. So I headed out down to the river to see what I could find.