Category: Photography
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“Early Bird & Vivid Weekly Challenges”
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge for June 5th 2015: Early Bird & “Vivid.” The early bird vivid colors of a sunrise and one sunset. Vivid The Daily Post Photo Weekly Challenge for June 5, 2015 Early bird The Daily Post Photo Weekly Challenge for April 17, 2015
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Photo101 Day Sixteen: Treasure & Close-up
I love flowers and capturing the colorful beauty of this yellow Hibiscus with surrounding foliage, zooming in close, to view the depth and details of the flowers filament, style and stigma. Day Sixteen: Treasure & Close-up
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Day Thirteen: Moment & Motion
Our lives are made up of big events and tiny moments. Ultimately, life is fleeting, and oftentimes it’s these small moments, this motion, that we love to document. Capturing the movement of water is fairly easy when it is the rainy season in Southwest Florida. Photographing the moment of rains impact with the lake and…
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“Snapshot Stories”
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Snapshot Stories.” Open the first photo album you can find — real or virtual, your call — and stop at the first picture of yourself you see there . Tell us the story of that photo. With hundreds of photos taken over the years from my cross…
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Day Eleven: A Pop of Color
The colors in our photographs are evocative and rouse emotions within us. Color can elevate a mundane image into something intriguing and meaningful, and can tell a particular story within the frame. This photo displays the striking contrast of a pool and the surrounding vegetation. The pools cool color provides the refreshing emotion of a…
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“Weekend Two: Play with Light”
It is weekend two of our photography course! For those who want to practice, revisit these points on the quality of light, and how light varies throughout the day: Dawn — before sunrise — can cast a cool blue light, with no shadows. Later in the morning, the light tends to be neutral — and to…
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“Weekly Photo Challenge”
“Roy G. Biv” is an acronym made of the first letters of the seven colors of the rainbow, to help you remember: Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet. It’s also your photo challenge theme for this week!* Capturing all of these colors is unique in itself and I believe I was lucky enough to…
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Photo101; Day Ten: Mystery & Lighting Effects: “Silhouette”
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Silhouette.” Day Ten: Mystery & Lighting Effects. I share an image that creates a sense of mystery. I manipulated the sunset light to create a particular effect to cast shadows and highlights to create a moody image. Photography 101: The Quality of Light Photo101 Day Ten, Mystery…
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Photo101 / Day Six: Connect & Tag
In this age of social media, we hear the word connect often, don’t we? Connect with us on Facebook! Connect with me on LinkedIn! Given what today’s technologies can do, it feels like the world is getting smaller, and we’re more connected than ever before. There are many ways to interpret this theme: from a…
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Photo101/Day Seven: Big & Point of View
Today, let’s go big. Whether inside or outside, photograph something of massive size. Feel free to interpret big in your own way, and get creative with your shot. Capture all or just part of the subject. Place it in the foreground so it takes up the entire frame. Or shoot it from afar so it…
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Photo101/Day Five: Solitude & the “Rule of Thirds”
We’re excited about today’s theme, solitude. In addition to thinking about what it means to you, also consider the placement of the subject in your shot. How can you interpret the state of being alone, or a lonely and uninhabited place? The solitude of a single sail boat anchored off shore in the calm…
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Photo101 Day Four: Bliss & Captions / I Am a Rock
Is it easy for you to ask for help when you need it, or do you prefer to rely only on yourself? Why? Ever since I was a child, teenager, young adult and adult, I have been advised I was hard headed and stubborn as a rock. I have been known to dive into doing…
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“Forces of Nature”
In response to The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo challenge: “Forces of Nature.” This week, share a force of nature from your corner of the world. I took my first hundred or so photos with my new camera and these three photos identify “Forces in Nature,” in nearby Lakes Regional Park, in Fort Myers Florida. The…
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