tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27002164948584339792024-02-20T02:21:42.865-06:00Natalee Raymond Photography BlogNataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-12721098521522538532022-06-22T20:31:00.005-05:002022-06-22T20:31:48.473-05:00Movie/Song/Book TitleOur most recent club competition was Movie/Song/Book title. The idea was to encourage our club members to step out of their comfort zones. I found myself struggling quite a lot with what to enter so chose a typical "me" photo. One I took of my sons years ago and titled it " You've got a friend in me" from the song from the movie Toy Story.It was now time to decide what I would Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-4648416056919131262022-06-22T20:13:00.003-05:002022-06-22T20:14:23.536-05:00Triptych ImagesTriptych: A set of three images or artworks meant to be appreciated together.We recently had another triptych competition. These are the images I entered.I spent some time one day playing with food colouring dropped into milk. I loved the individual images but when this triptych competition came along I was pleased to be able to show some different steps of the process.This was such a fun Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-23827913896899843902022-06-22T20:00:00.000-05:002022-06-22T20:00:13.911-05:00Quilt PatternsA dear friend of mine is a quilter. Not like the kind of quilts you imagine when I say the word "quilter". I should actually call her an artist. She uses cloth to make the most beautiful works of art. The following images were inspired by her beautiful art.I use macro photos that I have taken of Paua shells and crop them into the shapes I need to fit. I know that Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-11454508532760731742022-06-22T18:35:00.001-05:002022-06-22T18:35:18.372-05:00KiwianaKiwiana: Items or artefacts relating to or produced in New Zealand. Our first photo club competition of the year was Kiwiana. One of the foods I chose to photograph is a candy that is called " Jaffas". There are stories of how people would take these round candies to the movies and roll them from the back of the cinema to the front. With this in mind I decided to set up my Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-41247823769803154842021-12-01T02:32:00.000-06:002021-12-01T02:32:19.460-06:00WeatherA few years ago, we had a competition with the theme of "Weather". It was such a fun competition. I entered this photo I took while we were in Tanzania of a lovely family that was up for a challenge. While I stood under an umbrella they got completely soaked in a massive downpour all while mostly seeing the humour in it.Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-30616573032846380842021-11-30T21:16:00.002-06:002021-11-30T21:16:38.633-06:002021 ExhibitionThis 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. This image was one I entered into our black and white competition at the beginning of the Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-62001002838408996322021-11-30T20:59:00.001-06:002021-11-30T21:00:23.613-06:00Portfolio Competition 2021Our 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 Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-39733829333891792112021-11-30T20:33:00.005-06:002021-11-30T20:35:26.414-06:00Low 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 Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-60594657465495896092021-11-30T20:27:00.004-06:002021-11-30T20:28:13.647-06:00Natural 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. Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-16340969802776734852021-11-30T20:20:00.003-06:002021-11-30T20:21:20.865-06:00PhotojournalismThis 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. The image of the young woman Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-41186363362444954452021-04-22T21:02:00.005-05:002021-04-22T21:19:11.976-05:00Black and WhiteOur 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 Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-31237844405635294292021-04-22T20:48:00.003-05:002021-04-22T20:48:35.172-05:00Portfolio CompetitionOne of my most favourite of all the competitions our photo club has is Portfolio. The goal of this competition is to show the versatility of the photographer. Ideally, the photographer would enter three images that show three different genres of photography. As you probably know from previous posts, I really enjoy doing food photography and portraits. So, two of my entries Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-11094675626205634992020-07-03T20:39:00.003-05:002022-06-22T18:10:36.761-05:00Food Photography Workshop
In May of last year, I led a food photography workshop. In preparation for that, I did two set ups then moved my lighting around and took photos of those set ups with the lights shining on different spots in the images. These are the images I liked the most from that exercise.
Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-45474737449517678582020-07-03T20:26:00.001-05:002020-07-03T20:26:24.672-05:00Natural History Competition
This competition took place in August 2018. I entered them into a Natural History Competition. The deal with Natural History is you can not edit things out of the image. So here they are: A lion and a swallow.
Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-74585658727920319052020-07-03T20:20:00.001-05:002020-07-03T20:20:52.123-05:00Portrait Competition
I realized today that it has been over a year since I last posted.
I will try to catch up on some old images, but I thought you might be interested in my portrait competition images.
My husband says that people might be interested in the behind the image story so I will try to do that more.
This first image was inspired by one pf my photo school teachers, Greg Heisler. He used gels to Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-76664118071548800282019-03-18T20:11:00.000-05:002019-03-17T20:18:28.665-05:00Triptych
The March competition was "Triptych"
These are the images I entered. Both were photographed this year.
Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-46215792739416563022019-03-17T20:07:00.001-05:002019-03-17T20:07:41.093-05:00Travel
Our first photo club competition of the year was "Travel".
Both of these images are from a few years ago. The first is from a trip to Costa Rica and the second a trip to Hawaii.
Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-25640560847213815022018-11-13T02:00:00.000-06:002018-11-12T21:57:35.920-06:00Portfolio Competition
This month our photo club had a portfolio competition. The purpose of this competition was to show the photographers versatility. We had to enter three images. It was an open theme competition so I decided to work on my own theme. I chose to use secondary colours for my theme.
For my orange image, I chose to do a checkerboard pattern combining 8 different photos of Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-65902289123109544952018-11-12T21:26:00.000-06:002018-11-12T21:31:56.184-06:00Photojournalism Competition
In October, our photo club had their Photojournalism Competition.
These are the images I entered. They are both from some years ago.
The photo of the bride was taken at a wedding that I did some second shooting for. As she said her vows, she had to stop and take a breath to get control of her emotions.
While we were in Tanzania, filming music videos for a group of Maasai, theseNataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-53475209435563226022018-09-05T18:09:00.001-05:002018-09-05T18:09:57.750-05:00Macro PhotographyNataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-42351844448399593402018-08-28T00:00:00.000-05:002018-08-29T01:06:20.931-05:00Battle of the Images
Our photo club added a "Battle of the Images" night to our workshop rotation. It was tremendous fun and I think everyone enjoyed the night. The images had to be taken in the last 18 months.
I entered three images:
This photo titled "Honey" was photographed in my garage using clamps to hold the spoons in place while I poured golden syrup out of a plastic bottle. I Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-69474469076727765862018-08-26T23:55:00.000-05:002018-08-26T23:55:00.472-05:00 Landscape Competition 2018
Landscape photography is a very difficult genre of photography for me. I find I don't end up in the right place at the right time.
This photo though, was taken in Tanzania in 2013. We had been in the desert for almost a week and were taking the day off filming music videos. My two friends, Morgan and Natasha and I went for a drive to get away from everything and to scout theNataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-66926608532458231562018-08-26T20:23:00.001-05:002018-08-26T20:23:51.892-05:00Triptych Competition 2018
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A triptych is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as:
A set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together.
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My husband mentioned that you all might be more interested in the story behind the photos than the scoring system from my photography club. These photos were for a competition titled "Black and White".
This photo was taken in Tanzania in 2013. My family and I were volunteering with a media ministry that was filming music videos for a group of Maasai who were raising money to Nataleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17680291117043692521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2700216494858433979.post-83439755580435572032018-03-22T20:56:00.002-05:002018-03-22T20:57:00.117-05:00My Happy Place
My photography club had a competition in February titled "My Happy Place".
The photo I entered was a photo of the still life photos I have taken laid out in grid view in Lightroom. The photo earned an Honours score which is the highest score you can get.
The second photo I entered into our competition is of the view from the actual place that I love to be.
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