After a long week of work visiting my favorite park keeps me afloat.
You can see other interpretations of ‘afloat’ at the original post. Or see a few of my favorites here, here and here. I like this one too. And this.
OK. I have to stop now. But this one made me giggle.
Care to share what floats your boat? This challenge lasts till next Friday. Let’s see what’s floating near you!
This wasn’t what I expected to find.
At the car wash.
But I like it.
You can see other interpretations of ‘blur’ at the original post, or here, here and here are a few of my favorites…so far. I have another one that I might share with you.
We’ll see.
You can see other interpretations at the original post, or see a few of my favorites here, here and here. And of course here.
Iconic wall in Ann Arbor MI
You can see other interpretations of ‘wall’ at the original post. Or check out a few of my favorites, here, here, here, and here. The challenge runs till Friday. Look around. Do you have an interesting wall in your life?
Share!
Creepy.
Oddly enough this week’s photo challenge is ‘orange.’ It’s ironic, because I used orange as a unifying color in a photo challenge a couple of weeks ago. So of course I can’t use my photo of oranges from that post. And that would be too obvious anyway. So I spent Saturday and a bit of Sunday scouting out orange things that represent life here in Michigan in March. When there aren’t any orange things blooming.
Once I started looking for orange I found it everywhere. From my toast in the morning, to the bittersweet vine on a bush down the street, to the orange snow fencing everywhere, the gumballs at the mall, the lights on the side of a restaurant, the Detroit Tiger English D, the New Balance shoe in a shop window, to the ever present orange barrels, orange is everywhere! And the orange car? I followed it for a few miles before it turned into a Wall-mart parking lot. Then I circled the lot until the driver went inside. Couldn’t resist showing you an orange car, right? Cars + Michigan. Can’t beat that.
You can see other interpretations of orange here, here and here. And I bet, if you look around, you’ve got a little bit of orange somewhere near you! It’s nice to look for some color during these last long days of winter. Show us what you found!
If you look at the latest Wordless Wednesdays on this blog you’ll understand why this is a reward.
You can see other interpretations of ‘reward’ at the original challenge. Or stop by here, here, here and here.
And don’t miss this one. It’s the kind of place I’d use as a reward myself.
What’s a reward for you? Have you treated yourself lately?
It’s time.
Some of you have heard about the rule of thirds; the placement within a composed photo of the point of interest near the intersection of lines drawn dissecting the entire image into thirds. It’s one way of adding interest to a photo. Katie the sheltie-girl and I went out to see what we could find that was fun and interesting. And though I took plenty of photos of her sitting dutifully in her lower right corner, the photo I like best out of all of them was this, a hurriedly composed shot, with only one chance to get it before he moved out of sight.
Going for a walk
It was the man’s orange hat that caught my eye just as I was putting Katie back in the car. I rushed her back out into the parking lot and grabbed the shot. This is not a classic rule of thirds image as the rest of the image surrounding the subject is not empty. If I’d had more time I’d have raised the camera a bit and had less snow, (you know, about a third of the photograph) in the foreground. But I only had one split second, and I like the result.
If you go to the original challenge post you’ll see an absolutely beautiful redbud leaf and the description of doing the rule of thirds while also focusing on creating a bokeh, that interesting and beautifully blurred background. I messed around at home trying for something similar. This is as close as I got before the afternoon sun sank and my kitchen reverted to uninspiring.
Orange afternoon light.
This also is not classic. The background isn’t blurry enough and the subject is certainly taking up more than a third of the foreground. I’ll be trying this technique again. But still. I like the color and the warmth and the light.
The fun about these photo challenges is that they make me think a little bit about how to answer creatively before I run out to find the actual image. I like the adventure of finding new photos, trying new things, and the challenge both gets me out of the house with the camera (and sometimes the dog) and makes me see the world around me in a slightly different way. Today while driving I was looking for something that divided into thirds. This morning at the grocery store I was looking for something interesting for a an indoor bokeh.
Without the photo challenge I’d probably have spent the afternoon doing laundry, and how fun is that? For more fun rule of thirds images go here, here, here and here.
And this one too.
Katie’s kind of miffed that she’s not the star of this post. But she’ll get her turn.
She always does.
Never ignore a princess.
If you go to the original post you’ll see inspirational photo which is gorgeous…and looks just like shots we took of a similar fort in Maine this past summer. Friday I had lots of ideas about things to photograph that show symmetry. I had plans for heading out on Monday, a holiday from work, to see what I could see. But it’s 5 degrees Fahrenheit (-15C) right now and it’s going to get colder the rest of this long weekend and the wind is blowing making it even worse. So it’s very possible I won’t be going anywhere. I figured this would be yet another photo challenge that I missed because I just can’t get out of the house with my camera.
Then I looked out my kitchen window, watching the wind whip snow across the back yard. And I saw it.
Alien?
I have no idea what sort of animal would make tracks like this. It looks like a giant turtle pulled itself up to the bird feeder and then back out to the woods. But it’s certainly not turtle weather at the moment. Here’s a closer image. What do you think made these?
Two aliens
Maybe it was Winnie the Pooh’s mysterious Heffalump, but whatever it was I like the symmetry.
The wind has now covered up the tracks; I was lucky to notice it when I did. If you’d like to see some other images of symmetry, try here, here, here and here. Or go to the original post and look at all that have been submitted so far. The challenge lasts for a week, so check there again later and you’ll see even more!
What’s symmetric in your life? I hope it’s a warmer image than mine. I, for one, am thoroughly done with all the winter snow and wind. I’d like to photograph a symmetric field of corn or the symmetry of a dahlia blossom. I might still go and try to find some colorful symmetry. We’ll see.
How about you? Can you find a bit of symmetry somewhere around you?
It’s February 1st, a snow storm is upon us and everyone is huddled inside to wait it out.
Right?
Weekend fun
In the depth of winter fishermen remain passionate about their sport.
Go see other interpretations of dept at the original WordPress post.
Or go see a few, here, here, and here. And of course one more here.
Stay warm out there!
Brrrrrrrrrrrr….
Change Is Hard 