Creative Photography

Rusty, peeling paint flaky rubbish bin    

This is a great lesson for all of us. A couple of days ago I lost a whole stack of photos.  I am certain they were all fantastic photographs, probably the best ones ever but now we will never know. Yep,  lost the lot, was doing too many things at once and clicked "do you really want to cancel upload now " by mistake ! Or it might even have been that dreaded word delete !  I was too annoyed to notice !  And in disbelief as well that they had vanished into the ether or in my case the card slot ! You know the score, not happening fast enough so you whizz off on to the next interesting thing on your computer while its happening and click back and forth, do a spot of editing, check on progress, zoom back again then wham - too late.  That dreaded red cross where a photo should be.  Not even in the deleted box, well they wouldn't be would they when you have clicked cancel upload followed by  delete. :( NEVER upload your pictures to your computer in a great rush and do a

Macro shot of section of Flax Leaf - called Harakeke in NZ See how a macro detailed image shows the variety of hues to the best advantage and cuts out distractions.  Now I could have edited out the rust "splotches" but I kind of like seeing nature warts and all and I think it adds to the photo.  What do you think ?    

How cool is this ?  Just attended a horticulture course on soil and composition and this was part of the exercise to see how different soils would bind together and spotted this face that looked like an native carving - even the hair is there ! One of the other students created this "sculpture" from his piece of clay from his own garden.   Amazing how simple things can create a great shot. For more images go to blog at http://artblogphotos.blogspot.com/