A few weeks ago a friend told me about this book on photography and I just had to run out and get it. This is not a technical book but more of a way of training your eye to see things. I have just started to read it and I am already learning tons about observing, but also about myself. Like how it is really hard for me to not “enhance” the pictures I take...even just a little bit...because I really LIKE to manipulate and control. Now that could just be because visual imagery is a big part of my profession OR it could be that maybe I am just a little bit manipulative and controlling (ACK!!!), the jury is still out on that.
So, here are some of the images I took on my normal dog walk. I must admit, I did edit them...just a tad...really.
One of the exercises in the book has you notice texture. At first I felt like I was “trying” really hard. Then one morning I looked into my coffee cup and noticed this.
And I found this out on my daily walk.
What I find most interesting is that I have looked into a cup of coffee pretty much every day of my adult life, and walked by that tree stump almost every day for years and just now I am noticing how very cool they are...I’m seeing them now.
Holy coffee, Batman!! Seriously the tree stump is pretty amazing. Love where you walk your dog.
Posted by: Wanda | 07/26/2013 at 07:01 AM
Beautiful!
Posted by: carolyn | 07/26/2013 at 07:54 AM
Thee are stunning. Please tell us the name of the book.
Posted by: Eileen | 07/26/2013 at 06:17 PM
I just took a class in Line design and the pre-class assignment was to start to notice line. Led to the same experience as your texture did--noticing old things in a new way.
Posted by: Claire aka knitnkwilt | 07/27/2013 at 12:54 AM
Wow,how extraordinary are ordinary things....;-)
Posted by: Marianne Dubbeld | 07/27/2013 at 02:35 AM
What you said about controlling and manipulating made me think. I've never edited a photo (although I love taking Pictures and am pretty good at "seeing" things)in my life because I think the time it takes to turn something good into perfect is not in relation to the amount of improvement in the end-result. For me this is wasted time I'd rather invest into making another "good" but not perfect thing. Thanks to you, I now understand why I'll never ever be a perfect patcher. I'm happy with "good" results and start a new project and let others do the perfectly matching points.
Posted by: Chris | 07/29/2013 at 01:32 AM
Beautiful photos! It's so nice to see what you see on your daily dog walk. The tree stump is truly amazing!
Posted by: Carole | 07/29/2013 at 06:51 AM