Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. – Aesop
This week Tina challenges us to try One Photo Two Ways. When I was biking the other morning, I noticed the different looks of the barley field while I was passing by. One single field showed me many faces.
But when the sun came shining through – I smiled, and the whole field smiled back at me.
I also set the focus on the swaying heads…
and then on the stems below. But it is the same field and the same barley we see.
Thank you all for last week’s great inspiration, It Is a wonderful world we are living in! Now It’s up to you to choose your own approach, including the use of editing tools. We look forward to seeing the results – please link them to Tina’s original post and use the Lens-Artists Tag to help us find you in the WP Reader.
An important announcement. We are excited to announce a special event for the month of July. Several of our previous Guest Hosts have agreed to lead the Lens-Artists challenge. We’re sharing their themes in advance and hope you’ll join us and them in the coming weeks. They include:
July 3 John Steiner of Journeys With Johnbo will present “On the Water”
July 10 Anne Sandler of Slow Shutter Speed will present “Black and White”
July 17 Rusha Sams of Oh The Places We See will present “Getting Away”
July 24 Beth Smith of Wandering Dawgs will present “Along Back Country Roads”
July 31 Ana Campo of Anvica’s Gallery will present “Postcards”
Please be sure to check out their always-interesting and beautiful blogs, and join us in supporting them as they lead us each Saturday in the coming month. Until then, please remember to stay safe and be kind.
Leya 
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Such a creative way to look at this theme
Thanks – I had fun with it. ♥
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Remarkable images! I love the shapness and details of the grass, especially the second one. Beautiful straws!
Glad you liked them, Amy!
Hi Leya
As I mentioned in my earlier comment, your post is a great example of the thinking that one can’t step in the same river twice. Or barley field. Your photos are all so vibrant that I can almost feel the straws tickling my shins as I walk theough that field.
I hope its ok for me to play again, this time following the suggestion of one photo two ways, not five ways like last time. 😊
Here’s my submission. It has one picture two ways.
Best, Babsje
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Hi Leya
I really really like the various interpretations of your barley field. Was it Heracletus who said ‘You can’t step in the same river twice?”. Your wonderful post shows that we can’t step in the same barley field twice. Well done!
Heres my photo five ways for this challenge:
best, Babsje
Thank you – and yes, it was Herakleitos.
You’re welcome. For some reason I thought it was someone Eastern like Lao Tzu! Best, Babsje
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Beautiful photos Leya!
Thank you, Lisa!
I love the interpretation of the theme using this one location. Excellent photos!!
Thank you, Nora – thought it would make a fitting way of doing the challenge.
What a gorgeous study of barley – I love every one of them – even the one that isn’t speaking to you is actually all about what’s been left unsaid.
Love your comment! So true.
Left unsaid…
Oh these photos are outstanding Ann Christine 😀 😀
Thank you so much, Cee! How are you in Oregon?? The news tells about the heat – terrible.
I liked your close up vignette of the seedhead, Ann-Christine. Lovely!
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Grass has a special lesson. It looks so different at different distances
It really does – and the more you study it, the more beautiful it is…
Gorgeous pics! I love the simplicity, but the paying attention to detail! Awesome!
Thank you for a lovely comment!
What a gorgeous set, AC. Lovely! I love how you focus on various aspects of the field and reveal the different ways of ”seeing” the same subject. Great post and beautiful examples. I hope you have a lovely summer week!
Thank you so much, Patti, for your lovely comment! And I hope your busy week is lovely as well!
I love your interpretation of this week’s challenge. It is truly a photo essay on creativity.
Now you made me happy, John – so glad you enjoyed them!
I never miss cycling through the wheatfields every week…. they are everywhere here in Bavaria.I watched them from green turns to gold and I am always amazed by their beauty.
great take on this challenge Leya, the metamorphosis is just amazing.
♥ I am glad you love the fields too – and cycling through them every week must be a joy!
Precisely Leya..!
Such an excellent quote, followed by the most beautiful photo essay. I wonder if the farmer sees the beauty of the barley as you do.
Maybe not as I do – but surely the farmer loves his fields too – for bringing him his food on the table.
Yes, that field is smiling with you, Ann Christine!
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Weaving your little bit of magic, as you do so well, Ann-Christine 🙂 🙂
♥ Dearest Jo – I love your way of expressing it – your words make me smile a happy smile today!
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Very creative captures 🙂
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Wonderful points of view A-C. Well photographed and presented. Great color and clarity.
Happy it resonated with you, John – I liked this challenge.
You showed your amazing talent photographing that barley field Ann-Christine! Beautiful images to demonstrate the challenge.
Happy to find it resonated with you, Anne. I had fun with this challenge!
These are beautiful and creative images.
I am so glad you liked it!
Interesting the way you brought us closer to barley from a long distance.
Love the artistic click.
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Thank you so much, philo! I enjoyed doing this my way.
You are welcome AC
Love how you took one field and shared many sights within it. Excellent!
I am glad you found it interesting – I did too. This last year has taught me a thing or two…
The single strands of barley are amazing. You have given us such a good close up and detailed look at the intricate structure of the barley strands. I enjoyed your response to this challenge !
I am happy to hear, Anne! You made me smile too. ♥
An amazing tutorial on finding beauty in different ways from a single scene Ann-Christine. You did WAY morethan ”two ways” and showed how much variety and wonder can be found if only we seek it out. Marvelous!
Happy you like it, Tina. Biking is a pleasure too! You see things in a new and close-up way. Too bad I find it more difficult to bike nowadays – cannot do many miles before hurting. Why aren’t there more comfortable saddles? always wondered…
LOL, here in the US you CAN get a wider, softer seat – for a fee of course!
Well well – good! I guess you might here too…but I haven’t investigated the possibilities. Maybe I should!
These photos are interesting views of the same field, Ann-Christine!
Thank you, Miriam! I tend to focus on every detail nowadays. No traveling but finding joy in nature close by.