Some Impressionistic Fun

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abstract, flowers, impressionistic, trees

Once I get started, it’s hard to stop!

Week 17: Balanced (Accidental Renaissance)

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#dogwood2019, #dogwood52, #dogwoodweek17, accidental Renaissance, Glade Stream, stream, trees, water

The challenge this week was to shoot a photo in the “Accidental Renaissance” style. I had to look it up. The Golden Ratio is supposed to be involved, but not being anything close to a mathematician, I had to guess at the balance in my composition. There are no Fibonacci spirals in this photo, which was one option. The other uses extremes of light and dark and a bit of soft focus to place the elements of the photo in several non-equal rectangles. I got the light, dark, and soft focus, but I think the balance between my large and smaller (use your imagination) rectangles might be a bit off. I didn’t do the math.

52-Week Photo Challenge, 2019
Week 17: Balanced (Accidental Renaissance)

Week 11: Fill the Frame (with one color)

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#dogwood2019, #dogwood52, #dogwoodweek11, brown, trees, winter

52-Week Photo Challenge, 2019

Week 11: Fill the Frame (with one color)

 

Very challenging as everything you look at is made up of many colors, even those things that seem like only one color. I took some closeups that were contenders for this week’s challenge, but kept coming back to this image of winter’s coloration of brown on brown on brown.

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Week 5: Symmetry in a Landscape

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#dogwood2019, #dogwood52, #dogwoodweek5, Algonkian Park, blowing snow, cold, landscape, snow, Sterling, symmetry, trees, virginia, winter

52-Week Photo Challenge, 2019
Week 5: Symmetry in Landscape

This was a very difficult assignment, particularly as I limited myself to searching for symmetry in a landscape that did not include people or anything manmade. I went out just after a snowfall on one of the coldest days of the year so far and found my shot at a nearby regional park. You can say if this works or not for you, but here’s what I saw: symmetry in the two foreground trees, symmetry in the two background trees framed by the two foreground trees, and symmetry of the shadow created by the left-hand foreground tree. Side note: note the blowing snow. It was cold out there!! 

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Wildflowers

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backyard, flowers, trees, wildflowers, woods

52-Week Photo Challenge, 2017
Week 19: Tell a story about your back yard

My back yard is the woods. I went for a walk and picked a bouquet of wildflowers this week.

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Conflicted (or posting two photos instead of one)

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cherry blossoms, dusk, golden light, lake, lake audubon, sunset, trees

 

52-Week Challenge, 2017

Week 13: The Golden Hour (before sunrise or after sunset)–a story
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Two different evenings (I am not a morning person), two different light experiences. I couldn’t decide between two and so I am breaking what is surely some rule that says to post only one shot. I am posting two this week. Feedback appreciated. Which photo works better within the theme?

Early Spring

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blossoms, spring, trees

Speaks for itself.

Winter Walking

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black and white, Frederick, landscape, Monocacy, Reston, trees, virginia, winter

Monocacy Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland

 

Reston, Virginia

Feels Like November

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autumn, color, trees, woods

A walk in the woods in early November.

Past-Peak Yellow

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autumn, color, trees, yellow

My camera’s auto white balance went haywire, as you can see from the blue tones of the previous fall photo I posted. Lightroom helped me bring this one back to what I actually saw. Learning how to use Lightroom!! A friend convinced me that it can be better (i.e., easier to use) than Photoshop. He was right!