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“Night” was the theme this week….
I titled this one, “Insomnia”
These are a.m. times I really don’t like to see–even if they do have interesting blurs and squiggles as I peer at them through bleary eyes…;)
Now, to a photographer, “Playing with light” could simply be interpreted as, “Take a Picture”, since the word photography literally means, “painting with light”. SO technically, every time a photographer happily goes out to make an image they are ‘playing with light’.
However, my interpretation of this week’s theme was to incorporate a lighted object of some kind into an image. I thought of flashlights, LED lights, Christmas tree lights, candles…..but finally went under the house and brought up our set of Bocce balls that have little lights in them. Then I sat in my bathroom with the colorfully lit balls on a black blanket, turned the light off, set the camera on ISO 100, a 4 second exposure at F16, and took about a hundred shots of them at various angles, moving the camera and/or zooming in and out at the same time…until I finally found one I liked…
Definitely was NOT looking forward to this theme–ew…I much prefer shooting–well, pretty stuff!
Anyway, I went out to one of our local airports to try to scout out a plane, but no luck, except for on a sign, which I grabbed a quick shot of. Next, I detoured down a few side roads to see if I had any better luck with finding Trains…*SCORE!* (If I hadn’t found anything there I was just gonna raid my son’s matchbook car collection…
I’m posting two images this week. The first one was picked by three members of my family without knowing what anyone else picked, and the second one was my personal favorite, because, well, it’s “Pretty!!” Even train stuff can be pretty, right?
How ’bout an informal vote–which one do you like the best?
Next week’s Theme is, “Playing with Light”–should be FUN! You should join me!!!
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Chantal Holst - I can relate and yes, the clock looks like that when I can’t sleep! Very nice interpretation