Images from my travels
All along the edge of the sea front in Brightlingsea are colourful beach huts. I rather like beach huts, though opinion is out in regards to Brightlingsea. These images were taken on a particularly cloudy day using a filter on my Olympus camera.
The churches in Valletta tower over the apartment buildings which in turn tower over the ramparts of the city. An interesting place to visit if you are at all keen on history.
Paula’s black and white Sunday this week is all about Composition. The way we consider a subject before pressing the shutter is very important.
“the art of arranging all the elements in your frame in an aesthetically pleasing way”
This is an India Ink version of a photograph of my eldest grandson just about to jump down from a granite stone gate post. I have used the ‘rules of thirds‘ to position the figure on the lower left-hand side of the image so that he is seen to be jumping into space. I like how I managed to capture him with his legs bent freezing the moment he is about to leap. I also like the spires of the foxgloves piercing the blank sky. I don’t particularly like the way the cloud on the left appears using this effect, but I have left it in because on reflection it rather looks as though a swarm of midges is heading his way and he is trying to out run them!
Unusually, I am posting a photo that I have not taken. This is my grandson, Lorenzo, who was born 5 weeks prematurely in April, 2014 weighing only 1.2kg.
Last year on his way home from Europe to Perth, Australia, he had a stopover in the UAE and Oman (Muscat) where this photo was taken with him wearing the traditional Kandora. One of my favourite photos of him.
I have edited it and converted to black and white. And in case you were wondering, he doesn’t actually travel alone yet, Mom and Dad were accompanying him.
Just for Paula, a few shots from above San Francisco Bay.
All photos taken from the 210 foot high Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Apologies for the poor grainy quality of these images – they were taken through glass.
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