One of my pet projects is photographing ghost towns and other abandoned places. This blog post really caught my eye when I saw it, I'd love to visit these places.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
My daughter the photographer
When my daughter chose to enter the her schools Reflections contest in the photography category I couldn't have been more proud. The theme "The magic of a moment" seemed perfect for the medium. She's been running around with my old Olympus 2020, one my first digital cameras, and snapping away, I think she has quite a bit of natural ability for a third grader. Some of her photos are better then a lot I've seen from adults. This is the photo she chose to enter.
The Magic of a Moment
Here is what she wrote about it...
"The magic of photography is that each photo captures a moment, The rose in my picture is the last rose on the bush, on the last day before it died, in the last bit of daylight on the day. Photographers have two special hours each day. They call them the golden hour and the blue hour. The golden hour is in the morning. My rose picture was taken in the evening and that's when the blue hour is. That's how i got it to be blue. To me it's magical that this rose survived when the other ones hadn't."
All of this she came of with on her own. She made it through the school and council levels to district but didn't get further then that. Still pretty good for a third grader going up against fourth and fifth graders. My daughter is only Nine years old and she's already winning photo competitions. Is that cool or what?
Sunday, January 13, 2013
A New Year
I've been neglectful of my posting over the holidays, but now things are getting back to normal and i have some blogging to catch up on. Several of my subjects over the last months wanted photos for Christmas gifts. Now the holidays are over I can post a few with out worrying about ruining someones surprise.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)