Wordless Wednesday
Month: November 2017
With fronds like these …
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Waking up to the smell of the sea
Buffalo Beach, Whitianga, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Buffalo Beach, Whitianga, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Buffalo Beach, Whitianga, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Buffalo Beach, Whitianga, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
The Big T and I have decamped to the Coromandel for a few days. This morning we woke to the sounds and smells of the beach. And these views.
Regular Random: five minutes at the gannet colony, Muriwai
Takapu, or Australasian gannet, Muriwai, Auckland, NZ. Image; Su Leslie, 2017
It’s breeding season at the Muriwai gannet colony, with many chicks already hatched. Most are still small enough to spend most of their time nestled under a parent bird, and are difficult to photograph.
But the adult birds are as magnificent as ever.
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Five Minutes of Random (the #RegularRandom challenge) is hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist.
If you’d like to join in:
- choose a subject or a scene
- spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
- try to see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
- tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to Desley’s post
- have fun!
Silent Sunday
Fern frond. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Six Word Saturday: relax and re-group before our trip
Posting may be a bit erratic as the Big T and I are off to the Coromandel for a few days holiday. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Friday flowers
Feijoa blossom. Image; Su Leslie, 2017
DP Photo Challenge: experimental
Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu Peninsula, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
There are lots of way to experiment in photography; many in-camera (aperture, shutter speed, etc) and many more in post-processing (everything from cropping to applying filters).
Most of the time, most of us would probably say we experiment to make a “better” photograph. This of course raises the question of what makes one image better than another. Much of it is technical stuff: is it in focus? Grainy? Blurry? Have we managed not to cut granny off at the neck? Is the horizon actually horizontal?
But beyond that, how do we feel about an image? What emotion does it evoke? What story does it tell — about the subject? About the photographer?
Photography is a language which — whether we realise it or not — we are all quite adept at reading. Constant exposure to professionally produced photographic images (still and moving) in newspapers, magazine editorial, advertising, TV shows and movies — and more recently social media — has developed our photographic literacy.
So my experiment for the Daily Post’s Experimental Photo Challenge is to take a single image and create multiple edits. Do these differences in editing affect how you read the image?
You tell me?
Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu. NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Colour shot of Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Aged black and white shot of Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
colour shot of Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Awhitu Central Church, Awhitu. NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Seven Day Black & White Challenge .. and on the eighth day, colour edits
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
During the Seven Days of Black & White Challenge there were a few comments about how various shots would look in colour. Well, here they are.
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Image: Su Leslie, 2016
Both Elsie at Ramblings of a Writer, and Lucile at Sights and Insights invited me to join the Seven Days of Black & White challenge. The rules are simple:
“Seven days. Seven black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Challenge someone new each day.”
If you haven’t already taken part, please consider it — especially if black & white is not your usual “thing” photographically.
Seven Day Black & White Challenge, day 7
Image: Su Leslie, 2016
Both Elsie at Ramblings of a Writer, and Lucile at Sights and Insights invited me to join this challenge. The rules are simple:
“Seven days. Seven black and white photos of your life. No people. No explanation. Challenge someone new each day.”
I’ve enjoyed doing this, and invite anyone who would like to take part to post your own seven days of black and white.
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