365 Challenge

A photo a day to keep stagnation away!

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going t0 get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures” – Don McCullin

So how do you make and Orange interesting?? This was my first 365 photo and it was difficult. I had a plan/idea in my head to have the orange cut into equal segments and take the photo from above but sadly that really didn’t work out. Luckily the shots leading up to that did seem to work out quite well. 

This little chap stayed long enough for me to get this shot. Birds are not my forte but there is still a great deal of satisfaction when I feel I have done justice to the subject. 

A friend suggested the theme ‘candle’ for me as one of my 365 and again, like the orange, I wanted to make it as interesting as possible. I chose to add some other items to create a composition that was congruent with the candle and something I could create mood with. Again by desaturating all the colours except for the red enables the candle to stand out and be the main focus.

This gift was brought for me by my daughter. I chose this as the theme of celebration as I felt that it was to celebrate the role and power of motherhood, the strength of Mother’s all over the world and the special relationship between Mother and Daughter and particularly that of me and mine. Together we have fought and won and our relationship is what it is because of the challenges we have faced together.

I have taken quite a few of these shots just as practice whilst I am trying to get shots of some food dye being dropped into water. Some of them surprised me in their artistic composition. This is one that I really liked. the movement, the mix of focussed and blur drawing the eye around the base of the glass.