Photo Friday: Slowly
Today Photo Friday tossed an interesting challenge out to the public. If you examine back over the archive, you can see that most often they push out Adjectives or Nouns. This week they gave us 'Slowly' which is one of the first adverbs I've seen them use as a competition theme.
The difficulty with such a topic, is that you need to show something about an action, in a still photograph. This topic is even more challenging, in that not only do you need to capture a description of motion, as well as opposed to 'quickly' or 'hastily' blur can't be used to emphasize the action. Differentiating slowly from 'still life' is the challenge. You need to show off movement of something that is moving very slowly.
I had also considered a sheep herder in Peru, as well as a lackadaisical stroll along the beach. Both of which didn't quite have the same adherence to the theme as the picture above. Somehow the foggy water shows off that it is moving, and the penetration of the rocks, particularly in the front of the frame, show that this is not some raging river with roaring rapids.
If you are interested, I have a slightly larger version I'm willing to share on the internet.
