Fantastic timing of this theme for the week. Patti has announced this weeks Lens-Artists Challenge of Framing Your Shots… “I invite you to join us and share up to 3 photos that use this technique from your archives or from a photo walk. Be sure to identify the foreground, middle ground, background and the subject in each photo. Link to this post and use the “lens-artists” tag so we can find your post in the Reader. But mostly, enjoy exploring this technique!”
This is something I studied after getting my first DSLR, the various ways to frame shots – especially with kids and pets! Its a fun way to express yourself and now that our kids aren’t young anymore, where did that time go! I get excited to get out in nature and capture its beauty. The trees are incredible, tall and strong. The colours even more emphasized with the rain.
This weekend was the first weekend I had picked up my camera for pure enjoyment in weeks. Last weekend and action packed weekend for our daughters year end hockey tournament, I love sports photography. Five games is a lot of photos. Heart warming and incredibly close to my heart, but I needed a wee break from my camera. Until Easter yesterday and our nature tour today!
Patti has challenged us with sharing only 3 photos – this is an element that I can both understand – as it truly makes you think harder of which images to share and why, and also feel frustrated with only sharing 3 ;)
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams
I love all the elements of the above photo. Farm gates with weathered grasses in the foreground and a lush deep forest in the background. The colours more intense with the rain.
The raindrops on the tree branches, the amazing colours jumping out of the image in the middle and background with the water and trees.
This clump of trees caught my attention. Their colour was more brownish yellow than a white birch and they have a strength aura to them. I love the green forest in behind the field the trees are in. Can you see the forest for the trees. Being there I felt natures peace, even viewing the images brings a peaceful feeling over me.
It felt great to get out with my camera in nature today. A beautiful little reset, yes things on my to-do list have been moved to tomorrow as I think today, relaxing with my camera and loved ones, was exactly what I needed.
Be sure to check out others Lens-Artists Challenge posts here on WordPress. If you would like to participate, welcome! Use the Lens-Artists tag when publishing it on your blog. The next challenge will be posted by Sofia next Saturday! Which is also our final hockey weekend of minor hockey in our household. This is why I capture all the moments, time can feel long and yet it goes by so quickly. Photography is like magic, pure magic to capture the moments forever in time!
I could have added so many more, however I gratefully appreciate the challenge to pick my 3 fav’s!
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Beautiful shots, Pam. The three examples illustrate the challenge with strong compositions.
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Thank you so much Egidio! Its so nice being out in nature.
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Oh Pam, your tree shots are perfection but (no surprise here, I suppose) my favourite is the farm gate. Nicely done you! pp
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Thank you Pam! Isn’t that gate cool! It jumped out at me asking to be photographed!
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The farm gate is my favourite that has all the elements Pam
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Thank you! I really like that one too!
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A great blog Pamela. You made a farm gate look cool. No mean feat :)
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Thank you Steve! I thought it looked pretty cool!
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Hi Pam. Your images use the 3 grounds to draw us into the scene and invite us to visually explore it. Terrific! The farm gate is my favorite, too. I love the mood it conveys.
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Thank you Patti, Im so glad I came across it!
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Pam, so glad you were able to get out in nature to capture these beautiful images.
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Thank you Beth! Nature is so soothing
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Beautiful compositions, Pamela, your attention to the detail in each composition is apparent. Your gate image is my favorite!
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Thank you John! I just love the gate myself!
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Beautiful shots, Pam.
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Thank you Teresa!
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I can see why you love the first one, Pam, it is wonderfully composed. It’s also my favourite.
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Thank you so much Sofia!
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Of course the images are lovely Pam, but your sentence “…relaxing w my camera and loved ones” says it all! What could possibly be better than that?
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Thank you Tina, for me, thats what its all about!
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Very good pictures, Pam. I especially liked your third image. It’s always good when you can get outside with your camera, isn’t it?
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Thank you Joanne, yes it feels so good getting out in nature with my camera!
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I too love rural scenes although I didn’t use any in my entry….love all your photos
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Thank you Cath!
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Wonderful Pamela, nature is a great subject for this challenge, I love the sepia look too, I’m guessing it is natural.
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Thank you! It is natural, it was an overcast damp day, rained most of the time we were out. The colour’s were deep!
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Beautiful photos. They are great responses to the challenge. Apart from that I loved the common colour tone of the three
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Thank you!
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Love the colours and your choices for the challenge. The farm gate is my favourite too!
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Thank you! I love seeing stuff like this too!
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