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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds
Posted on February 22, 2015
For this week’s challenge, a photograph of some seedpods of an Honesty plant (known in France as ‘monnaie du Pape’ – The Pope’s Money). I do like a bit of bokeh.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone But Not Forgotten
Posted on December 9, 2014
A discarded flower, perhaps given added poignancy by the fact that it had been a buttonhole worn at a wedding I attended last summer.
Photography 101: Double
Posted on November 27, 2014
These popped up together earlier this year in a window box that had been sewn with an unspecified seed mixture.
Respecting the brief for today’s challenge, the image has been rotated 90° anti-clockwise into a landscape view, which certainly looks more compelling than the ‘as shot’ portrait mode (look at it sideways and you’ll see what I mean).
Photography 101: Nature
Posted on November 12, 2014
This certainly comes under the category of nature. Despite appearances, it’s not a cartoon octopus but actually a chrysanthemum bud, which I took in early September this year in our garden.
Thinking about looking at common things from a different perspective, I rotated the image 90 degrees clockwise, which I think makes it a bit more interesting.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
Posted on August 9, 2014
Macro is a good way to discover texture. This is the stamen of a lily. Try not to get the pollen on your clothes: it’ll never come off.
Monet’s Garden
Posted on July 29, 2014
I recently visited Monet’s Garden, in Normandy. You’ve probably heard of it, and of Monet himself, the founder of Impressionism.
The garden itself is rightly famous, although I was surprised to discover that almost all of the plants there are quite common varieties, rather than horticultural curiosities. What grabs the attention is the way they are all closely planted in what is a comparatively small space.
The overall impact is quite stunning, but for me the details were even more impressive. Clever old thing, Nature.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning
Posted on January 4, 2014
Snowdrops traditionally mark the arrival of spring:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated
Posted on September 30, 2013
With ‘Vivid’ settings or Photoshop, of course it’s possible to saturate any picture. But isn’t it better when Nature does the job for you?
Natural saturation
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