The Cutting Edge

These photos are a bit blurry as I only had my iphone on an evening drive home. I was experimenting with placement of the horizon and also with the road placement off to one side of the frame. I do like how the road draws your eye off into the horizon. 

In these pictures I was trying to use the contrast of the trees in silhouette to the light of the setting sun, while keeping the horizon line in the lower third of the frame. 

This is a series of shots getting closer to the subject. I take a lot of macro shots of flowers, leaves and other things I see in nature. The shots from a distance are ones I would probably not taken. I like the first one with the blurred reflection and the window panes in the background, but the close shot is still more interesting with the details of the petals and stamen.

  Here are a few other shots with the main focus off to the side and with the horizon in the upper third. I really like the second shot which gives you the feeling that you are standing on the tracks. The depth of field is clear enough that it brings your eye way off into the distance of the horizon.

Here are several portraits of my daughter. I was trying to express her personality without showing her face. In the top photo she is too far away and there is too much going on on the edges of the frame- although that is her personality (stuff everywhere...).  In the bottom photo I think that I captured her with her drawing in focus, the ducky footy PJs and the fuzzy rug.  I also like the accent of the shadow around her head. I usually would not have taken a picture of her without showing her face and I would not have had her pose like this, but I like the resulting glimpse into her everyday life. 

In these shots of sailboats resting for the winter in Malletts Bay, I was focusing on framing the shots. In the top photo I left the center open with the masts circling the open center. In the bottom shot I was drawn in by the repeating shapes and contrast to the sky.

In these pictures of a silo in Colchester, I used the trees to frame the shot and make it more interesting to the eye. I also took the picture from a low angle and kept the horizon in the background down in the bottom third of the frame.

This is my favorite type of photo to take- man made buildings and items being reclaimed by nature!