Project Hard Standing by maggiemae

Project Hard Standing

its the changes in the landscape of our garden to enable a hard standing for the caravan to park. Out goes a whole rhododendron a whole lavender, lots of bulbs…. but never mind - we have to put our caravan somewhere other than by the front door!

Three good things:
1. We got several square metres of good soil to put on a veggie garden.
2. My wonderful book that John gave me also gave me some information on how to take better photos, and I took some by focusing on the front of the picture, lifting the camera and getting the blurred subjects - John and one of the workmen.
3. It was so hot here today 26deg and it was really too hot. I didn’t feel like a bike ride down to get some seed potatoes.
fantastic focus and delicious dof. but why? why? get rid of the plants???
October 17th, 2016  
I like this type of photo where the focus is on the front subject with a blurry background. Sounds like big changes but I can see you don't want to look out on a caravan all the time. Hot at this time of the year, thought you had snow still on the hills!
October 17th, 2016  
great photo, i like that tecnique
October 17th, 2016  
@summerfield We don't have much space in the garden and the caravan has to be put somewhere other than on the driveway, Vikki! We have many rhododendrons and more lavender elsewhere!
October 17th, 2016  
the lavender will grow again from cuttings and the bulbs will transplant elsewhere, not sure about the rhodo, might be too big?
October 17th, 2016  
@kali66 Most of the lavender in our garden has been grown from cuttings, Kali - its very good. And we have more rhodos elsewhere! Got about 8 or 9.
October 17th, 2016  
Well done with your newfound skills. It makes a terrific photo. Sorry about your horticultural sacrifice
October 17th, 2016  
Sounds like a lot of work, but it will be nice to be able to park your caravan where you want.
October 17th, 2016  
@dsp2 It is a lot of work but we have contractors in to do it and its expensive too but good to have the caravan in a secure part of our property!
October 17th, 2016  
Great focus and dof
October 17th, 2016  
Great dof!!
October 17th, 2016  
I feel as if I'm spying behind the flower in focus on a very important conversation. A good photo for sure.
October 17th, 2016  
Love the focus, great capture
October 17th, 2016  
Great capture with great focus & DOF. It is good that the caravan is going to have a special place, but it is sad that the plants have to be taken out.
October 17th, 2016  
interesting focus experiment. It worked, I think.
October 18th, 2016  
@daisymiller I did transplant a lot of flowering shrubs some time ago from this area, Daisy so all was not lost!
October 18th, 2016  
Wonderful focus and dof
October 18th, 2016  
I'd be transplanting everything- I hate getting rid of plants and cutting down trees! Silly me- but so glad you already had plenty more. Our friends also bought a caravan recently and had to do the same thing. Good work on the photography lesson!
October 18th, 2016  
Wonderful image
October 18th, 2016  
Men at "hard work" love this shot.......
October 18th, 2016  
Great focus, and love the Dof Maggie.
October 18th, 2016  
@tonygig Its very domestic Tony but I liked the bokeh that this choice ended up with!
October 18th, 2016  
@olivetreeann This is John and a 'worker' discussing - I think John's very happy that a 'worker' actually turns up!
October 18th, 2016  
@maggiemae I like how you only got a small amount of the Photo in focus Maggie.
October 18th, 2016  
@tonygig That was the idea - to get these guys just blurred as they really were not working!
October 18th, 2016  
Lovely Maggiemae, great image.
October 18th, 2016  
Hard choice, bye the flowers.
October 18th, 2016  
I like your focus here. Sounds like you have a project on your hands.
October 18th, 2016  
super dof
October 18th, 2016  
now you have a guest house.
October 18th, 2016  
Wow lovely shot - fave
October 18th, 2016  
Beautiful bokeh xx
October 18th, 2016  
@chard That was one reason why we got the caravan, Richard - a fully self contained guest cottage!
October 18th, 2016  
great use of DOF maggie
October 18th, 2016  
Leave a Comment
Sign up for a free account or Sign in to post a comment.