So, for this week, Sofia challenges me to think of mood, and how to convey and create an emotional reaction to my shot. That can be accomplished by capturing situations or occasions, photography styles, or people and their feelings. Never forgetting how moods can be perceived in different ways by different people.
Loving
Silhouette at McKinley Park
On the dock in Old Sacramento
Helping
Can you please give me directions?
Comforting
Helping his son.
Teaching
Docent at the Sacramento Zoo
Docent at the Sacramento Railroad Museum
Learning out in nature
Alone
Local carnival
A bench in Berkeley
Encouraging
At a swim meet
Tired and Broken
Attitude
Not happy to have his photo taken.
Renaissance Faire in Fair Oaks, Ca.
Scary
Animal Moods
Smiling after a spa dayLaughing faceDinner yet? Hopeful
My Moxie’s sweet eyes.
This iguana was out for a walk with its owner. Looks happy!
What’s going on?
I imagined a story by watching these gulls on the beach.
Wolf’s Guenon shows affection, protection, and care.
I’ll end here with the hope that everyone’s mood is positive, polite, and caring.
Anne-Christine tells me that “backlighting is a great way to create stunning, eye-catching effects. Here are a handful of specific images you can make with backlighting: Street and portrait silhouettes, bird-in-flight silhouettes, portraits, and macros with beautiful background bokeh, landscape silhouettes, and sunset/sunrise landscapes.”
Glass
I always enjoy looking at glass objects. I found some of these images in stores, in windows, and in displays.
I first saw an example of Chihuly glass at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The first and third photographs are examples displayed at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
Black puppies are particularly hard to photograph. Lighting is key. Libby was an English Black Labrador Retriever and my very first dog. I waited 40 years for her! It has been 4 years ago this month that we parted.
This is Liberty Love at 8 weeks.
Here is Moxie! Backlit.
Lots of images benefit from backlit lighting. I hope that you may be inspired to look at the world from a new perspective. Positive, beautiful and peaceful.
When I am out and about, I often focus on textures. Getting up close and personal with my subject matter. So this week’s challenge was just up my alley. Jude (Cornwall in Colours) says, “Study the texture and forget about what it is you are photographing, imagine reaching out and touching a photograph. What would you feel? Is it hard or soft, smooth or rough? Texture becomes the subject here.” And so I will meet this challenge.
Animal Textures
Giraffe close up
All the textures of the Lion
Peeling Textures
Plant Textures
Man-Made Textures
Natural Textures
Unidentified Objects
Years ago I subscribed to a magazine for my young son, and on the last page there would be an abstract close-up photo with the caption, “Can you guess what this is?” So I began to photograph with this in mind. Some of these you will be able to figure out easily, others may be trickier.
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