Some things I've learned about myself through Photography

 

I think of my mother often when I am using a camera.  She would be delighted that I finally “get” the fun of photography.

And, I have learned a few things about myself because of photography, for instance –

 

I am drawn to repeated patterns . . .

 

 

and bright colors . . . 

 

 

   (I can’t tell — is it obvious what this is?  If you don’t know, I’ll give you a hint – the color was a pleasant surprise when I played around with editing the hue and saturation of a black and white picture from the zoo.)

 

and the sky . . .

 

 

. . . and sometimes opportunities to show a unique perspective

     A window at a filling station.  A cooler filled with soda pop inside provides the color and is made interesting because it is viewed through a window that is reflecting near-by trees.

   A cropped version of the window above.

   I thought these bushes in the yard, photographed through a screen, looked a little like a painting.

  I was amazed at how much more I liked this simple picture of a bird when I made it a negative.

   There is something a little mysterious about just a glimpse of a pretty girl, isn’t there?

   Bridge girders through the tinting at the top of the windshield.

  A sunset taken in the rear view mirror (as the passenger, of course!)

   I took a picture of clouds from inside the car and inadvertently overlayed them with my husband’s reflection in the window.  When I cropped it to just the reflection, I got a picture I really liked!

I can honestly say that photography has made me look at the world around me much more closely and appreciatively.