Photo Friday threw up the challenge of 'Distant' and I figured I'd use one of my more recent photos from Dorothy Alberta. The photo is taken using an infrared converted D70s. I found the highway intriguing as it was straight for what seemed like forever, before taking a sharp turn out of the valley.
The only post processing done was to convert the RAW into a Monochrome.
Photo Friday threw out the challenge of Damaged this week. The first ideas that came to mind were some photos I had of broken down farm equipment, and some old vehicles. Once I was in my photo library, however, I remembered that I have photography that involves high speed captures of things getting destroyed. This photograph was taken around the time we started moving past the technical hurdles of high speed capture into the more artistic considerations of background, lighting and composition.
The idea for this shot was to hit the top of the glass, which was filled with water. We were successful in finding our target with the other shots of the night, but this show we fired a bit low. If memory serves, we were launching spent batteries as they were the perfect diameter and weight to fire out of the pneumatic cannon. The projectile was edited out of the final shot, giving an impression that the glass just descided to break.
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.
I've been unusually busy recently. So busy in fact that I didn't even get a chance to look at the Photo Friday website until Monday. The challenge excited me, as the recent aquisistion of a 105 Macro meant that I would have some fresh photos to use for the challenge.
