When composing a scene in my camera I always look for interesting “patterns.” When I capture some interesting “colors” as well it’s a plus. Here are two examples…the first made inside, the second outside…on a building wall. Why the bike wheels were put on this wall I haven’t a clue. Art I guess.
I set out on a photo walk last week in downtown Roanoke, Virginia with no specific plan in mind, but as I walked the city streets I began to see “tables” and each had it’s own specific character. Here are three examples of those I saw…the best of the lot.
Lounge area in the Hotel Roanoke.
Metal tables in the food court inside the City Market building.
Sidewalk cafe ready for customers.
One of our neighbors decided to paint their mailbox last week…and I thought it looked very nice in the midst of the flowers in bloom underneath. Why “purple” I wondered…why not I answered.
Try to find an image where “leading lines” bring your eye into the scene…such as in this example. Other than that, it’s nothing special.
One nice thing about the recent change in time to daylight savings is that when I go on my morning walk the sun is not as far up as it was before the time change. Thus, last week on my walk I saw this half moon, and since I had decided to take one of my cameras with me that day, I got this shot. Nothing special, but it was neat to be able to still see the bright moon while the sun was rising.
There are times when I get totally weird in terms of photographic subjects…mainly because when I see something…anything really…which I think looks neat…I grab whichever camera is closest to me and take a shot. This is one such subject. Following breakfast one day, after putting my cereal bowl in the kitchen sink (bowl earlier having been filled to the brim with Frosted Mini-Wheats) I noticed the contrast in colors on top of the bright white color of the sink itself. Water droplets on the rubber mat in the bottom made it even more interesting…to me. Being able to do this sort of stuff is why I love photography. It allows me to capture what I see visually, and it makes absolutely no difference if what I saw is a bit weird.
Minor league baseball in Greensboro for the ‘Grasshoppers” has yet to begin, but it’s close. I liked some of the patterns I saw one Saturday during a visit. Note the protective netting between the fans and the field in the first image, taken behind home plate.
Setting my camera at a fast shutter speed, I was able to capture water droplets shooting upward from this fountain. The second image is the one I really like.
This image is interesting in itself, but when placed with the one below that fills the frame, the two tell a better story. I photographed the concrete statue recently in a garden area next to Bachelor’s Hall Plantation in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
