photos from the past 40 years
My contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge Hands, Feet or Paws.
I thought of a shot of a Racoon that wandered into the yard one afternoon. After getting some shots I started trying for something a little different. So for one of the shots I focused on the animal’s front paw.
I did a monochrome conversion, blurred the background and added a vignette to focus attention on the paw.
Monochrome Monday is only going back a couple of years.
As the image is almost timeless I decided to make it look like an old film image by adding a film type border and an uneven vignette.
The new Weekly Prompt Photo Challenge is Yellow.
My first thought was the various species of flora and fauna subjects with yellow in their common English names. I then decided that idea was to obvious before remembering the giant yellow butterfly garden ornament I had photographed on a walk last winter.
A Giant Yellow Butterfly over wintering on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
The new Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is Harmony.
This got me thinking about the colour combinations in some of my photos.
Starting with a winter sunset where the predominantly cool blue foreground and sky is split by the warm yellows and reds of the setting sun. It’s a section of the Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area in Saskatchewan, Canada.
A male Rose-breasted Grosbeak. You may wonder why I have included this in my selection. It’s because I planned the shot, timing it so that the bird was in the shade with sunlight illuminating the background.
Autumn colour with a blue sky background. Taken with a fisheye lens to get as much of the foliage in the frame as possible.
Finally, lines of ice on Lake Huron at dusk. The remains of the winter ice is reflecting the blue sky overhead while the water is reflecting the colour of the sky above the horizon.
A shot from last year, it’s one of the few species that I see out of my hospital room window this spring.
The new Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is Less is More.
As I had been in a minimalist mood for a while before my accident I thought it was a good excuse to review some of the photos.
First, a group of berries. I’m surprised nothing had eaten them.
A Maple leaf on the snow.
A seed head in winter.
Some old wood piles sticking out of Colpoy’s Bay.
Seed pods in winter.
Finally, snow on a twig.
