Archive for November, 2017
Wordless Wednesday: Scarf
Posted in Humor, Nature, photography, Wordless Wednesday, tagged photography, scarf, winter, Wordless Wednesday on November 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday: Need a Ball?
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Wordless Wednesday: No Golfing
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Temporary
Posted in challenge, Inspiration, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, writing, tagged Fall, historic preservation, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: Temporary on November 14, 2017| 1 Comment »
I recently drove by a school with a historic preservation sign out front. What photographer can resist an ivy-covered brick building in the fall (or something that you know is going to change)? I had a few minutes so I pulled in and snapped a few shots. Unfortunately I only had my zoom lens with me.
I shot the bright red leaves, and the vines trailing over windows and the front steps, but it felt like it deserved so much more. I was determined to come back with my normal lens to get different shots.
But I only have time for these photo trips on weekends. The weather turned during the week; a mild fall suddenly became winter.
I went back a week later and the beauty was gone. The red leaves had all dropped. The weather was gray and the place looked dreary. I tried to jazz it up by taking a picture beneath a nearby colorful banner.
It is the nature of photography that conditions are never the same, though the place may be. The light is different and small changes have occurred: someone could have left a glove or trash. In this case, the bright red leaves had turned brown and littered the ground.
Photography is a moment-to-moment depiction of the world, and every moment is different, like snowflakes. What we capture is a temporary moment and nothing more.