I'd been reading the chapter in the August book club book about observing -- seeing the familiar in new ways, getting away from 'rules' in photography (he called it learning to 'think sideways'). And I had a tag challenge starting today (nature + red). So I decided to use only what was in my study/guest room (where I was sitting at the computer looking for a distraction) to try to capture something that involved nature and red. Nature wasn't that hard -- I had collected 5 feathers on the golf course this week. But, nothing was red. I took several macros of the feathers into the light from the window. I noticed in one of them, the sun looked quite big, round, clear, and very bright white. About a half hour later, I noticed the sun turning red and got my idea for today's shot -- red sun is a part of nature, as is the turkey feather! Posting in main album is from a small symmetrical feather and reminded me of a fan ( http://365project.org/taffy/365/2013-08-01). Posting in extras album is more solid and reminded me of a wing.
How inventive! Really should try to think sideways too! It is like a wing, really love the silhouette against the red, you answered the challenge great, thinking outside the box!
Thank you all so much for encouraging my experiments! It's made me glad I joined the book club this month!