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Backyard Autumn Expedition in Photography
Fri, 2007-10-12 02:17 — Photographer
The Fall or Autumn season is here, and the change of seasons is always a good time to capture the images of the transition. These are a few of the photos that I took in the second week of October. As explained before, you do not need to plan a big-budget expedition to distant lands in order to create photo opportunities, use your imagination, look beyond the usual and you will gain a new perspective.
The chosen photos show both macro, and medium focal-length views of the changing plans, animal and seasonal manifestations of Autumn.
Mountain Layers on my mind
Sat, 2007-09-08 14:59 — Photographer
This relatively visually balanced perspective of the Canadian Rockies shows three successive views. In the foreground is the more tangible and familiar ground of grasses and other plants of different sizes. In the middle ground is a rocky hill that shows the detail and the texture of the surface. The background shows a bluish view of the distant mountain as it has been transformed by the misty air and the distance.
My motivation for this shot was to depart from the familiar, or to combine different types of familiar perspectives into one shot. Often, we see mountains as distant picturesque blue hills and mountain ranges that are lacking in the character of their constituting rocks. The rocks are not the final story when it comes to mountains and the surface of the earth. The trees and grass are often ignored at the expense of the monstrous rocks and picturesque mountain ranges. This photo provides a fair representation of what really makes up mountains in close, medium and distant perspective.
Converging glacier river
Sat, 2007-09-08 14:32 — Photographer
As usual, I pull the name from the idea that crosses my mind in the very first moments of glancing at a shot and the memories of experiences that it invokes. In this case, all lines seem to lead to the center of the image where the curving road leads to and disappears between the mountains. Also, with a fair understanding on glacier flows and gravity, the idea that the glacier in the background and the liquid river in the foreground are related by the point of transformation where the solid glacier turn into water at that same point places this common convergence point at the center of interest. Interestingly enough, this point is not visually visible, and so it leaves it to the viewer's imagination to visualize what happens.
This photo was taken on the way from Jasper, Alberta to Banff Alberta/Canada between the massive Canadian rockies that span the common border of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
Almost plastic nature flower
Sat, 2007-09-08 13:55 — Photographer
This immaculately developed flower was found in the garden at Canada place in Banff Alberta.
As the title implies, the flower looks unusually healthy, firm and brilliant to be natural although it really is natural and not plastic as suggested.
This appearance of plasticity is further enhanced by the fact that this was an overcast and cloudy day thereby increasing the colour contrast.
The composition applies the two thirds law of photographic composition. This can be noticed in many of my photographs taken during or around the present period. This new conscious trend is a direct result of a decision I made after analyzing my earlier photography (more than 2 years old), and noticing that much as the photos were fairly desirable, the composition was often uninteresting and always centered in a matter that is too visually balanced and stable, thereby devoid of intrigue.
The two-thirds rule is always suggested to create an interesting composition and aid in framing the view and creating a sense of perspective when applicable.
