A Different Perspective

This is my second response to a photo challenge this week: that’s what happens when you get a bee in your bonnet.  I’ll settle down soon, don’t worry.

This time, Patti invites us to change our perspective when taking a photo.  Don’t just stand, point, shoot, she suggests.  Crouch, squat, get above the action, take a tour round it.

The weather being what it is, I can’t get out much with my camera, so these are all from the archives.

This first one is perhaps my favourite, taken in Gloucestershire.  I had to lie at the edge of a flower bed to get this shot of a house barely glimpsed through the ox-eye daisies.  Photography as exercise class.

Our friends Sue and Brian’s garden at Horton.

Here are some more shots, taken in much the same way, in gardens and fields.

I wish those alien leaves poking above the dead sunflower in Leran, France weren’t in the shot. This is a photo that’s not quite successful, technically, but It’s a shot I’d like to try again, because for me it’s very evocative of the place where it was taken.
Drystone wall, North Yorkshire.
Nosterfield Nature Reserve, North Yorkshire.
A meadow in Grewelthorpe, North Yorkshire.
Gasholder development at King’s Cross, London.

And here are two more.  The back end of a festive lunch, and flags at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg.

This really wasn’t a drunken orgy…
The EU Parliament, Strasbourg.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 86: Change your Perspective

 

Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

45 thoughts on “A Different Perspective”

  2. Oh yes, I think these are all very successful. I hope you do more, however, it can be tricky can’t it? It’s not always appealing or possible to get down on the edge of flower beds weather, people, dogs!

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  4. You successfully captured the photographs as challenged and the results are amazing. My favourite too turned out to be the house peeping through the daisies. Great job!

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  5. I enjoy taking photos like this, adjusting the perspective. And I enjoyed your collection, Margaret. Some evocative reminders of sunnier days 🙂 (Though I do think the weather is improving. Slowly…)

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  9. Beautifully captured, Margaret! I totally fell in love with the first one – but all great perspectives.

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  11. Wonderful collection, Margaret! I’m delighted you joined us. I especially like your first shot through the grasses. That’s a wonderful perspective and adds a bit of mystery about “what’s beyond.”

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  13. These angles really do add context and textured layers – I really like them. A bit too muddy for you to attempt anything similar currently unless you happen to know a Walter Raleigh type to accompany you?

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      4. Isn’t it? It was a lovely day with friends, but I made an effort to bring different mood to the photos on a grey day with the promise of rain always there. 7.45 p.m. here. Tired. Achey. But feeling good after an energetic day.

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      5. Hopefully its the kind of tired and achey that leads to a good night’s sleep after a rewarding walk. Here its nearly 10 p.m. and the nearly full moon is rising in the sky and the resident fiery-necked nightjar (heard but not seen) has just tuned up and is now in full song – repeating a pretty phrase that is commonly represented as “good Lord deliver us”. (A phrase that seems rather apt for these times but we won’t go there …)

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      11. I just looked up the woodpecker to see a pic (beautiful bird), and I read that rather being up in the canopy they are usually on the trunk of trees, but move around to the other side to avoid being seen, so now I better understand. That tap, tap tapping sound can be very difficult to locate.

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