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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #86 – Change Your Perspective
This week Patti shares some different perspectives to try in our photography – ”We invite you to break the habit of shooting photos at eye-level and change your perspective. […] show us your photographs taken from a variety of perspectives -”!
I believe the differences are clearly visible in flower photography –
In the opening photo of my ”Princess of the Night”, I am lying on the floor in the middle of the night to get a view of the inside of the flower.
Close-up – from a low position is one of my favorite perspectives.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy
Eye level – front and side, often looks even better back lit.
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.– David Alan Harvey
Going low from a distance can sometimes create a more interesting picture.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
– Ansel Adams
Looking down is necessary to get the beauty of both the butterfly and the flower.
With tiny flowers, mass-effect can do the trick – and light and darkness of course.
Where light and shadow fall on your subject – that is the essence of expression and art through photography.
– Scott Bourne
Sheer Mass-effect
Thank you, Tina, and all participating bloggers, for last week’s Treasure Hunt – a success with many fun and interesting entries!
And here is a Special announcement:
At Lens-Artists are delighted to announce that the March 7th challenge (#87) will be hosted by our special guest host, Miriam Hurdle at The Showers of Blessings Please be sure to visit Miriam’s site on Saturday, March 7th to view her challenge. For the rest of March, we’ll follow our usual weekly schedule:
- March 7–Miriam of The Showers of Blessings
- March 14 – Ann-Christine of Leya
- March 21 – Amy of The World is A Book
- March 28– Tina of Travels and Trifles
Macro Monday
Macro Monday
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Slope
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Slope
For Frank this week – slopes from Sweden and Spain.
Spanish Sunflower slopes and Swedish Cattle grazing
Macro Monday – The Last Aster
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #66 – Fill the Frame
Filling the frame offers a sense of completeness, clarity, inclusion, and comfort. We essentially “dive in” and experience the true essence of what the subject has to offer.
– Lucas Martin
Last week Tina challenged us to share images of a special place or country. This week Patti is hosting, and she is asking us to fill the frame – what will You be filling Yours with?
Here are some of My filled frames, a variety of choices.
Wooden steps
An umbrella
A quarter of a stone circle
Garlic
Leaves
A poppy
Princess of the Night
Thursday Thoughts – Garden News
So far this Spring and start of Summer has given the ideal weather for the garden: Raining during the nights and sunshine during the days. Such wonderful difference from last year’s extreme heat. Come along for a short walk!
These are only some of my flowers – but I am so glad they survived last summer’s heat! I adore the little rain gauge my son bought for mother’s day.
My wild roses were planted maybe 20 years ago – I got them from a friend who in his turn had got them from a little old lady in a forest cottage.
I love those little ones – a sea of pink! If you study the bumble bees below, you will understand how small these roses are.
This year, the Painted Lady, being a long-distance migrant, caused the most spectacular butterfly migration observed in Sweden.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonizing mainland Europe and reaching Sweden and even Svalbard. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, but never as early as this year. I usually see them in my Buddleijas in late summer.
This year they migrated in millions, and Gotland, our biggest island, received more than 6000 of them in some hours. In my garden now, I have hundreds of them. Some battered and torn – but who wouldn’t be after such a flight!
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #49 – Favorite Things
Our host this week, Patti, challenges us to show some of our own favorite things! They may be old or new – but all of us have favorites…
Many favorites have their own story, and some of my favorites are living things. In the header, a precious tulip I got from a collector, a friend of mine who sold his garden last year – he and his wife are now in their 80’s, and found it too hard to maintain it all.
Voltaire had Candide concluding, after all his travels around the world: Il faut cultiver notre jardin – ”We must cultivate our garden”.
And in my garden, I find the peace and magic I need when life gets too busy. I guess he was right, the old Voltaire…
Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. ― Anatole France
My best friends ( maybe not ”things”… but…) – Totti and Milo – belong to my family, and therefore they are also my favorites, together with my other children. I grew up with animals – so living without them would be impossible.
The orchid is Mother Nature’s masterpiece. – Robyn.
I have kept my grandmother’s geraniums for more than 30 years, and they are my favorites as well. I can see her loving smile whenever I tend to them. The same feeling is there for other flowers I once got from old friends and relatives, now gone. But the orchids are something extra when it comes to beauty – first and foremost this delicate Cattleya, which has lived here for quite some years now. A glorious treat when in flower, filling the rooms with a delicious scent.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
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Not to forget – books and pencils, of course… Favorites for reading, writing and sketching. Preferably outside of a dog…
Welcome to join in the fun! Remember to link your post here and tag it ”Lens-Artists” to help us find your post in the WP Reader.
Next week, it’s my, Ann Christine’s, turn to host the challenge, so be sure to visit!
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #48 – Wild
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” – Henry David Thoreau
Tina encourages us this week to go Wild! And, this time of the year I spend as much time as possible outdoors, in the wild, so my decision was easy – to go for my own neighborhood and use the most common meanings of the word Wild (according to Wikipedia) –
Wild animal – I met this lovely deer on my morning tour a couple of days ago. She noticed me of course, but waited patiently in the sunlit glade until I was gone.
Wilderness – a wild natural environment not significantly modified by human activity.
Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Represented in the header by a wild rose.
One of the most fascinating things in the wild is the metamorphosis of butterflies. Here some caterpillars of the small tortoiseshell, feeding on stinging nettles…
…but later developing into these beauties – Wild Wonders!
Finally, Wildness – the quality of being wild or untamed……easily recognizable even in domesticated animals – such as my dogs running and chasing each other like maniacs.
Would you like to go wild for a moment? Welcome to join in! Tag your entry ”Lens-Artists” so we can find you in the reader. And stay tuned for next week’s host, Patti, for challenge #49!
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