Since I’ve been doing a bit with the garden this year, I’ve decided to document it to remember, especially the dye flowers.
This time I’ve edited a teeny bit, unlike my last garden photo session. And I had a “helper” who thought it was a great service that I’d lie down on the lawn to relax together.
I found out that my new to me little pocket camera actually does quite good macros. I can’t see a thing on the display outdoors though, so I’ve developed a new (to me) style of taking pictures. I simply wave it around, try to point it in the general direction of something and click. Play with over- and underexposures in the sun etc. The macro lens I have for my SLR is a 90 mm and gives a completely different perspective compared to the wide angle of a tiny camera.
For starters I’ve been doing garden walks since so many things are in bloom right now, but I’ll continue to explore this method time and again just to get out of my regular groove. How about deliberate out of focus for instance? The columbines are going now, so I promise next time it will be something else…
The photos are unprocessed apart from resizing – exposure and colour are all from fiddling with camera settings. No crops. Some have been more deliberately composed, most are randomly aimed at the target.
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Just a few pix of the critters living around the property apart from my sassy tame ones. I spent yesterday spring cleaning the garden (first step), and frankly I’m too exhausted to talk. 😉
“Your existence has many doors, and each serves a purpose
that ultimately helps define who you are.
Sometimes it is hard to open these doors.
Often you would think it just wonât work.
It takes patience and perseverance, but you must believe
that you already have every key for each door you encounter.
Imagine your heart as the keychain where all the keys you will ever need
in your lifetime are dangling, waiting for you to use.”
~ Dodinsky
The weather is too dark and dreary to be taking photos today, so you’ll have to wait a while for the first dye results I promised.
Instead I stumbled across an old photo, it was scanned from a negative many years ago when internet connections were much slower and hard drives a lot smaller, so I don’t have these images any larger.
I never could decide which version I liked the best, how about you? (maybe you don’t like them – that’s ok too)
I have so many negatives, so even if I can’t afford a new camera house when my current fails (hoping not to jinx it here, it’s definitely a senior), I do have image material enough to last me a lifetime of play in Photoshop. I just know I’d miss the thrill of the click…. 😉
