It was another morning that I had difficulty falling back to sleep and another morning leaving the house earlier than planned with my camera. This time, I chose to travel to Chapman Park with explicit plans of playing with the ultra-wide Laowa 10mm.
When I arrived, the light was pleasant and – after underestimating how close I had to be to the fishing pier to find the framing I most-desired – I was able to take a very pleasant picture of the subdued sunrise.
I continued to play with the Laowa, but I had to take a brief break to capture this image with the 25mm. I saw him putting his boat in the water, swapped lens, found the right composition, and waited to see if it happened. It didn’t and I would have preferred that the boat had traveled through the frame a little lower to complete a golden spiral-like composition. I probably could spend some time in GIMP and get it prefect, but the light is still lacking and I don’t want to cheat.
After that, I continued to play with the ultra-wide. I took some uncompelling pictures of tree trunks as the light played with the bark …
… but my favorite image of the day was the flagpole.
It certainly isn’t an award-winning image, but it pleases me. It is a unique perspective that most photographers would not consider and I like how playful the rope is as it leads my eye through the frame. And there is that little dandelion seed on the right. So yeah, this image tickles me. Since posting it to Flickr, I have also cloned out the little bit of distracting cloud at the bottom of the left side of the frame too.
I am submitting both the Feeling Lucky (fisherman) and Summer Breeze (flag) images to the camera club’s June competition … in part because I don’t have much else to share in the way of new images (and I refuse to submit old ones), but mostly because I like them, even if they aren’t exactly award-winning material.