Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Weather
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
2021 Exhibition
This year we were able to hold a photographic exhibition in a local library. We had about sixty entries from our club members. Each member could submit six images and up to three would be chosen to be shown in our exhibition. Three of my images were selected for exhibition.
Portfolio Competition 2021
Our portfolio competition is a competition that is supposed to show our versatility as a photographer while if possible having a theme that runs through the images. One of the other requirements is that these photos are supposed to have been taken within the last 12 months.
I did not actually see that there was a sort of geometric theme running through these images until after I had finished them and turned them in.
Low light
The brief for out lowlight competition was not complicated. Take a photo with a long exposure time. I realized I had not taken any long exposure photos in a few years. I found some I had taken about 5 years ago.
The first is of a tunnel that we drove through on a visit to my friend in Hawaii. The second of a firework display I took while photographing a friends birthday party.
Natural History
This year for our natural history competition I entered this image of a squirrel. I love this image and think it has so much personality. It was taken at the height of summer in Texas so it was around 102 degrees F (or 39 degrees C). We were taking a walk and I saw him laying there on the ground looking just as hot as I felt.
Photojournalism
This year in our photojournalism competition, I entered two images that I had taken years ago.
One of my nephew when he was probably about 4 or 5 years old and one of a dear friend that I got to know in Tanzania. The idea of this competition was to make sure each image told a story or made you want to know more of what was happening in the image.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Black and White
Our first competition for this year was Black and White. I love this competition because the only guideline is the colour and you can enter anything you like. I chose to enter images that were taken in the last year.
One image I chose was of seed pods. They can look menacing or dangerous or otherworldly. I found a whole pile of them outside our community centre months ago and collected them thinking that I would eventually make an image of them. I went home that day and started to consider how I would photograph them. My husband carved a dome for me out of styrofoam and I painted it black then went about threading the stems of the seed pods into the dome. I placed it on a black back ground and started photographing away. As I spent more time looking at this group of seed pods I noticed how the group of them actually looked a lot like one of the individual seed pods, I thought I would make a diptych out of them. But I wasn't happy with how it looked I wanted them closer to each other. I ended up cutting each image in half and had them touching and lined up. I loved how they turned out. Click on the image to zoom in.