I mentioned yesterday that I love taking portraits, and that my husband is my only model.
I don’t think I told a fib because the beautiful girls in this shot didn’t model for me.
I just happened to catch them in a candid moment …
Interlude #2
Month: March 2016
Interlude #1
Second on my list of favourite things to photograph, after flowers, is portraits.
I am not at all skilled in the art of portrait photography, but I am keen to learn.
Here is an early attempt at a black and white portrait (my favourite kind).
My husband, Tim, is my one and only model. If you’re keen to let me practice on you, sing out!
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The flower’s head droops.
Its petals weighty
with age
and fragile beauty.
Captured.
Its age
and fragile beauty
linger.
This is the final in my seven-day series of posts featuring flowers.
I love taking photos of flowers. There are challenges to photographing flowers. I think carefully about the story I want to tell through the image – usually one of fragility or subtlety or beauty; how much of the flower I want to capture; the angle I will shoot at (eye-level with the camera, or from on-high, or perhaps down low, or from the back …); the part of the flower to focus on; how to shade/light the flower to accentuate its core characteristics … and much (much) more.
The challenges, as well as the technical elements and the processing decisions, keep it interesting for me.
I hope this little series has allowed you to see flowers anew – in all their fragile, subtle beauty. Perhaps it has also inspired you to get your camera out, seek out a flower or two, and make some technical and aesthetic decisions of your own.
If it has, please feel free to share your images with me – I love to see how others interpret/represent the flowers around them.
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We emerge from the cool of the rainforest to the dusty heat of a different type of Australian landscape. Lizards stretch full length on the rocks above the waterfall and soak up the sun.
And paper daisies lift their heads and spread their warmth.
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Imagine a morning.
The sky is blue and wide
and the breeze is wistful
and perfumed.
We wander under the canopy of the rainforest,
And then out into the light.
And flowers.
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It’s a part of a flower that often remains unseen.
We are captured by the outer, showy petals
where the colour is.
But the insides are worthy of our focus too.
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The rain leaves a delightful legacy on its sunny yellow petals.
In the afternoon they were gone – both the rain and the flower.
One had moved on to bring relief to other gardens.
The other lay scattered over the path.
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Icons of Melbourne #16
To finish the Melbourne icon series we have decided to focus on what is perhaps the most iconic mode of transport in the city: the tram.
Over time, the trams have changed, but here’s one of the older types.
Here are two other photos … one more abstract than the other.
Tim’s image of the new-look Melbourne tram is here.
Musings from the cold 