Anne is urging us to try ICM – and I agree with her – it is great fun once you give it a go!
In 2016, Sue of Wordsvisual taught me how to do when she was here in Sweden. I immediately fell in love – the results are close to impressionistic. I have had some fun with it maybe once a year – but now, I really wanted to give it a fair try. (What wouldn’t I do for Anne?) Please visit her beautiful site to find some great inspiration!
As I am closing down my garden and glass house for the winter – I took my inspiration from there. The colours are still alive and here are my results from a couple of hours’ joy!
No laundry – but vines! I let them climb there because I love them flaming, and the two following pictures are also from those lines.
In the left one I drew the camera sideways and down, trying to catch the colours in the clothes pins while they went towards the ground. The right one was made by making u-formes with the camera to get the feeling of yarn hanging out to dry.
These two pictures are from the open place under the trellis. I still have some trees standing there, but tomorrow they are moving inside. The left one is a Plumbago and the camera was moved upwards. The right one is the Ginkgo tree and some different leaves on the ground, and camera was moved downwards.
These two are from the last of my Asters. You can guess how I moved the camera. The diagonal lines on the left side are from straws leaning over the flowerbed.
This last pair is from my fiery Yellow Ginger Lily – the last flower standing, and to the right is the soft Acacia buds waiting to bloom in January.
I was so inspired by Anne’s trellis ICM, that I had to try catching the last grapes out there. I thought the thrush had eaten them all, but here they are!
I took all photos in evening light and at low shutter speed. Mostly 8.
I had a lot of fun preparing for this post, and I hope you do too. My biggest smile and thank you to Anne, who made me take this up again! Please share your thoughts and images. I took hundreds of photos, and it doesn’t have to be flowers…so count on it that you will have to throw away 90% of what you produce.
We all had a great time last week as Sofia had us looking back. I enjoyed experiencing all your thoughts and memories. When you share your post for this challenge, please link back to Anne’s original post and use the Lens-Artist tag. In the meantime have fun learning and experimenting with ICM.
Leya 
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A wonderful idea to focus (or not🙃) on your amazing gardens Ann-Christine! Loved your choices this week. Loved the first image especially. Your post and the way you described your subjects made me think it would be fun to show an image before and after ICM.
Thank you, Tina – yes, I thought of it too, but as my pictures were from very common things I did not do it. Maybe I should. I saw many other do that.
Inspirational, Ann-Christine. Your post makes me want to try and try again. Beautiful photos.
And I am glad Anne brought it up, because practise we need to manage it…always difficult but fun!
Beautiful images. ICM is a nice thing to play with. It gives you wonderful abstracts. I got a sense of the colours of your garden just before winter even with this. The time of mists and fogs will soon give you other ways of producing abstracts.
Thank you – it will. Glad you liked these.
Dear Ann-Christine,
We really appreciate these pictures. Art requires alienation to help us truly see and understand. These artefacts compel us to pause and truly observe. Unfortunately, we mostly encounter images on the internet that we have seen many times before and don’t really look at them.
Thanks for showing your arty photographs
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you for your kind and uplifting comment! All the best to you ♥♥♥♥
Lovely images and great to have the explanation about the different camera movements too. My favourites are the pair of asters, probably simply because of the colours!
Thank you, Sarah – my colours too…
What a wonderful explosion of colors, shades and shapes! Simply beautiful… After my first very poor attempts with a phone camera I am humbled.
Why thank you! And, don’t give up – you will get the hang of it. But I have never tried with a phone!
Yes, I will keep trying. It’s great fun, indeed. Thanks so much for the encouragement!:)
Excellent photos and good explanation. I’m trying and as you say you delete so many. I haven’t mastered this yet will keep trying.
It is difficult but fun – must be prepared to throw away 90%!
gorgeous artwork!! almost impressionistic!
Thank you, Chris.
you are right , these are fun, colorfilled full of movement, you shine at this style too. Many of them look like old fashioned curtains
Thank you, Ritva – old curtains!
You created some pretty abstracts!
I am glad you liked them, Nora!
Great photos A-C. I’m blurry-eyed looking at them! LOVE those reds!!!
Thanks, John! Red is red…and everything is shaky…
And john – I found one of your comments in the spam – sorry!
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These are some fun and beautiful images Ann-Christine!
Thank you! I had fun!
Such an interesting and varied selection. I’ll have to give ICM another try. My efforts some years ago weren’t particularly good and got deleted at the time of shooting.
I was surprised that some of the grapes still retained their round shape.
Thank you, Vicki! Tes, there are still edible grapes…this autumn has been warm like summer and some flowers begin to bloom again. It doesn’t feel right.
None of the weather feels right anymore. We’ve had some very cold days in the last week or so. I’m talking about cold rainy days like we get in winter. Surprising as we’re about to go from Spring to Summer in a couple of weeks. I planted my heirloom tomatoes on my balcony only last week – 5-6 weeks late as the winds were so blustery and gale force in September. I have the tomatoes staked and also, loosely tied to the stakes with string in case of more wintery temps. and ferocious winds.
Yes, nothing is the same anymore, is it…I am in agony over the fires in the Amazon.
Oh, Ann-Christine, how beautiful these images are. I like the fact that you told us how you took the pictures, giving me hints on how to have more fun the next time. Now let’s see, what wouldn’t you do for me??? Well…………………..!
Haha, thank you, Anne! You really set a challenge that made me work!
I guess it’s all in the word ”challenge!”
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Ann-Christine, these are outstanding. The vines are my favorites. I’ll have to try some u-shaped ICM in the future. Perfect photos!
Thank you, Egidio – I had lots of fun!
Excellent! I had forgotten about the 2016 ICM experiments! You’ve shown some great images here
Thank you, Sue! And for the lesson!
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Niceee
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Fabulous Ann-Christine. I love them all
I am glad you liked them, Brian!
Oooh, aren’t you clever? These are lovely.
Thank you – had fun!
Some very impressive work there
Thank you.