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Come Visit!

I’m over at Shutter Sisters today, with a guest post sharing the Photo-Heart Connection. I’m excited to have the chance to guest post there, and to share this project with more photographers. I would love to have you come visit.

Have you been thinking about your Photo-Heart Connection more this month, since I announced the project? I have. I’m looking more closely, more critically at each photo. Not to see what is technically right or wrong, but to notice how I feel. That’s a very good thing.

Today’s photo is from our recent snowstorm. I don’t know what it is, but there is always something about a lone tree image that gets me, right in the heart.

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Finishing those Opposing Lines

Curves in OppositionWe finish up Exploring with a Camera: Opposing Lines today. This topic was a bit more challenging, wasn’t it? It had me looking closely at my images with lines, to see whether there was that feeling of tension, of lines moving in opposition through the image or not. I found it’s much more common for me to use leading or converging lines in my photographs than opposing lines.

It was fantastic to see all of the different interpretations explored for this theme. I have to admit, the one that made me laugh the most was a photo of two football teams (american football, that is) lined up and ready to play. What a creative interpretation of “Opposing Lines” in that image! Here’s another great observation of opposing lines, from the Flickr pool:

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Have fun visiting your fellow participants, and see what they saw as opposing lines. See you back here tomorrow with a new Exploring with a Camera topic! (And by the way, I’m feeling pretty much normal today, thanks for all of the get well wishes the last couple of days.)



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The Habit of Being

As I was reading in Simple Abundance this morning (yes, there’s that book again!), I was struck by the concept of the habit of being. As opposed to the habit of doing, constant movement on the “to do” list, or the habit of brooding, focusing on the past or the future. The habit of being, just existing in the moment. Such a simple concept, yet one I am constantly re-learning. I keep turning back to this idea of late – of being in the moment, conscious of the now. There must be something to that.

So this morning, this image from our Bath hotel room jumped out at me. Seeing the beauty of light and dark, the monochromatic composition that presented itself. No other reason to take this photo, than to capture an observation of the moment. And yet, it pleases me. Brings me some peace and stillness, even now. My eyes wander over the details brought out by the light and the shadows.  Marvel at the beauty of the simplicity and the artfulness of the composition that the designer created in this space.

A reminder that along with the habit of being, you gain the habit of seeing. A good habit to have, as an artist.

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Back with a Bell

I love the monochromatic scheme of this photo… in the weathered bike and bell, and wall, in Brescia. What stories do this image tell you? We each make up our own. That’s what I love about these images.

We just got back from our week long vacation to Rome and Umbria. I had every intention of scheduling blog posts for the entire week we were gone but time got away from me. It was a wonderful week of experiencing something new (or ancient, depending on your perspective!) and I look forward to sharing some images after I sort through the gazillions of photos I took. I don’t even want to think about the number!

(By the way, try explaining a word like “gazillion” to a non-native speaker sometime, it makes you realize how much a language is absorbed, just soaked from the environment, not intentionally learned.)

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