Submitting to Jude’s Macro in the Garden challenge.
012 April: Macro in the Garden
Author: Sharon
I like to travel and take photographs. I like to blog about both.
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‘The earth laughs in flowers’ said Ralph Waldo Emerson some time ago.
Does it still?
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Texture + Colour + Shape = Beauty
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There is a ‘prettyish kind of a little wilderness on one side of [the city]’. It’s a most unexpected sight, but really quite delightful.
With thanks to Jane Austen for the inspiration.
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Walking through a rainforest over Easter was good for my soul.
So was capturing this moment of beauty.
Interlude #4
We spent the morning playing with light and light sources …
Interlude #3
I came across Lily quite by accident, and I knew from the moment I saw her that I wanted to photograph her.
And so I did.
Hair and make up: Missie Villamor. You can find Missie on Instragram @missievillamor
Interlude #2
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 #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.
Musings from the cold 