Sometimes my eye is drawn to the shapes and colors and textures of objects more than to the objects themselves. The result can be a somewhat abstract looking photo, which is very different from what I usually shot. Here are couple of photos of that ilk from a trip last week to a local garden.
The first was taken looking through a ground-level weathered weathervane and the framing of the shot is just as it came out of the camera. I like the contrast between the light and the shadows and between the rust and the blurry natural colors in the background.
The second is a shot of a feathery looking yellow plant in which I narrowed the depth of field to isolated a few of the yellow needles and the reddish branch. I like the variations of color in the photo and the blurry repetitions of the foreground shapes and colors that can be found in the background.
Weathered weathervane
Abstract yellow
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Something different
Posted in commentary, Gardening, Photography, tagged Alexandria VA, amtique tools, Canon 100mm macro lens, Canon Rebel XT, clamp, rust on April 16, 2013| 1 Comment »
I almost always take photos of nature and wildlife, but every now and then a man-made object will catch my eye, like this rusty, industrial-looking clamp.
I was visiting a friend as she was cleaning up her back yard, preparing for the flowers that will soon be blooming there, when I caught sight of clamp. It was sitting on a rough-sawn stump and, as she told me, is used to attach a plant stand to another object.
The shape reminds me of a question mark, an industrial question mark. I really like the solidness of the piece, a solidness from which the rust detracts little. The light casts an interesting shadow and the scattered red buds are a nice complement to the rusty tones.
This was a case of shooting what caught my eye, without too much thought at the moment. I simply knew that I liked what I saw.
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