For the first time in my project, I have done something "disciplined," which some of you may know is a hard thing for me to do with a camera. If a bird shows up, I'm highly distracted and chasing it down!
This month, I decided to take on Macro-March as a project, and my initial thought was to do a week of "buds," a week of "bugs," a week of "patterns," and a week of "miscellaneous." But after starting with buds, I thought to myself, "I wonder what these buds will look like each week, and if I can track their progress, will the photos show an interesting pattern?"
I also wanted to learn about these trees/shrubs in my area (I did research to find out what they were and what their scientific names were--some are still "to be determined" as the Maple in my front yard could be any variety, and I will have to see what the leaf presents for final conclusions). I have felt rather scientific!
4 of these plants are in my yard, 2 are those of my neighbors (just so I can continue the gossip about the crazy lady down the street), and 1 is from the front entrance to my daughters' middle school--yeah, the kids just LOOOVE that I am going there every Sunday. Let's just say they do "pray" no one sees me and figures out that's Kira and Aidan's MOM!
As part of Macro-March, I used my kit lens (18-55 Canon) plus what I call my "Macro Clip,” a Raynox M250. If you cannot afford a macro lens, this is a very good inexpensive converter. You can see from the calendar view (click on this link to access the photos easily:
http://365project.org/darylo/365/2014-03 ) that the weather was quite different, and I approached the plant subjects from different angles and I used some different processing (and sometimes different buds that could show progress a bit better—but same plant). Some of the buds did not produce a “bloom” yet, and on one of them, the Exbury Azalea, I found a sample from last year’s photos to show what it will look like when it blooms.
This was a fun project. Disciplined. Educational. Fun. Next up is Abstract April, where I will attempt to explore the one area of photography that I love now, but I’ll admit, I had a heck of a time trying to “define.” I don’t think it’s an easy thing to do, but I’ll have a go at it. I will probably have images that others will say “that’s not abstract.” Feel free to say it. I love the conversations that come from this particular area of photography!
Hot Dog. I did it!
Fav.
Lovely array of images and a great sense of achievement too I'm sure.
creative theme, discipline to carry it out and beautiful result! You've inspired me to think about approaching April with a plan. Fav !
Big fav for me!
HOTDOG