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Share Your View: Reflections in Glass (2nd Edition)

window shopping
window shopping by olive.villarreal

After a week of Exploring with a Camera: Reflections in Glass, are you noticing reflections everywhere? My guess is yes! I love how the reflections in these images shared in the Flickr pool transform the underlying subject. The layers give the photographs depth visually, and deepen the meaning in the images as well.

If you haven’t already, take a look through the links in the link up below. You will find some great thoughts along with great photos. I enjoyed Gilly’s Reflecting on Reflections and seeing how this prompt led Gina to reflect on life. I believe our art is just a reflection of our selves, and it is no surprise to see that come through in your posts as you dive deeper into exploring the world around you with your camera.

We have another week with Reflections in Glass! Let’s see what you can find. Link up below or put your images in the Flickr pool. I’ll share a few more here next Wednesday from participants. Enjoy exploring!

Sacrifice
Sacrifice by JennyRain

FYI – Links will be moderated. Please use a permalink, ensure that your linked image is on topic, and include a link back to this site in your post through the Exploring with a Camera button (available here) or a text link. Thanks!

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Passing the Threshold

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hayloft-2-w by Jenn-SycamoreLane Photography
We’ve just wrapped up Exploring with a Camera: Thresholds (2nd edition) and I have to say, you all have wow’ed me! I love how you took this idea and ran with it. It was so enjoyable to take a break from moving craziness over the past week to look at your Threshold photos. Very peaceful!
Enjoy these images from a few participants today. There are also many wonderful images and stories in the link up, take a few moments to hop around if you haven’t already. One of the things I love most are the words that are often put with the pictures. In my opinion, a beautiful image is that much more meaningful with some beautiful words to go with it!
Tomorrow join me back here for another second edition Exploring with a Camera! I wonder, what will it be…
oneyedjacks
oneyedjacks by ginag10
noir lens flare doorway
noir lens flare doorway by Captivus Photography

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Share Your View: Thresholds (2nd Edition)

Leaving the gazebo
Leaving the Gazebo by Dizzy Dress
Have you been enjoying Exploring with a Camera: Thresholds this week? Have you seen any threshold images? I loved this image from the Exploring with a Camera Flickr pool. Doesn’t it just look like a magical window into a beautiful spring day? It could be any season, but cross through this threshold and it’s spring. I love the feeling here and in the image below too. You can link your images (new or archive) on the exploration topic of Thresholds in below and put them in the Flickr pool, if you would like the opportunity to be featured on the blog next week.

portal
Portal by Marty’s Fiber Musings
Tomorrow is the big day! I cross my own “threshold,” as we fly from Italy and start our new adventure back in Oregon. I expected to feel more sad and bittersweet at this moment, but to be honest, what I feel is relief. All of the planning and packing and getting ready is finally at an end. Our container is already on its way to Oregon, we just have to get ourselves plus eight suitcases, three backpacks, a cat and a bike box home at this point. Actually, I’m more worried about getting it all from the rental car parking to the check in desk, but we’ll manage. At 4am. Ouch.

One other thing I wanted to let you know about before heading off… I’m giving away two spaces in my upcoming Find Your Eye: Starting the Journey class through Ashley Sisk’s Rambling and Musings this week! If you are interested in getting in on that action visit her blog here to see how you can win one of these spaces. A big huge thank you goes to Ashley and all of her Scavenger Hunters for particpating in Exploring with a Camera on a regular basis. I’m so happy to have you all here!

Be sure to check back tomorrow too, when I have a great announcement of something really cool for you to do this summer. If you subscribe to my newsletter, you got a hint of it last weekend. Tomorrow is the big reveal!

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Share Your View: From a Flower’s Point of View (2nd ed)

From a flowers point of view
From a flowers point of view by leavesnbloomphotography

Isn’t it interesting to see the world From a Flower’s Point of View? I’m enjoying all of the images that you’ve already linked on this topic and put in the Flickr pool. Keep them coming!

In addition to the wonderful images, I’ve also enjoyed your stories of exploration. Ms. Becky got some un-asked for points of view while she was capturing her images, Jenny encouraged others to try something new and Gina pondered how different points of view might help us get along better. Photography is never just about images, it’s a reflection of ourselves — and I love to see that linked in to Exploring with a Camera too!

We have another week here exploring the Flower’s Point of View. If you haven’t gone out to capture this point of view, you still can! I can’t wait to see what else you share.

snow on the mountain
snow on the mountain by Deborah T

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The Last Form

SHS - Finding Form
SHS – Finding Form by darlenedw

Oh, I’m sad to see Exploring with a Camera: Finding Form end! It’s always amazing how much more I see while I have an exploration going on. Form was everywhere for me, and I’ve realized it always will be. Form is integral to any visual art, photography is no exception. I loved seeing how different types of light show the forms we capture. Just look at the two images in this post, so different yet both great examples of form.

Even though the link up has closed, I posted it again today so that you can click around and explore images of “form” from your fellow readers. Look at how the different light affects the form. How textures or color affect what you notice of form in the image. This kind of exploration is a great way to learn, as much as exploring with a camera on your own.

Tomorrow we’ll start with the first “second edition” Exploring with a Camera post for the summer. Wondering which it will be? Come back and see!

lil boat
lil boat by gina g10

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Seeing Form Everywhere

Since starting the Exploring with a Camera: Finding Form prompt I’ve been seeing form everywhere. I’ve realized that much of the art I love outside of photography, both painting and drawing, relies heavily on form. I love the shading of light and dark, how something so simple creates dimension on a flat surface. You can see that in this photograph from Santorini – it’s all about form. If you didn’t have the light and dark, the various shades, what would you see? Just a blank white rectangle.

Since I’m off traveling this week, you have a bonus week with this exploration topic! Link in below or share your image in the Flickr pool, if you’ve found form in your photographs. I’ll catch up with comments next week when I get back. In the meantime, you can fill my void and visit the links of your fellow participants, and see how they are Finding Form in the world around them.

See you next week!

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