Week 3 Thing 5 part 2: The Lie of the Land

The Lie of the Land
Originally uploaded by Mark_Twells

I'm pretty sure I covered the thing 5 exercise properly in my last post, but I couldn't resist posting a photo using Flickr's "blog this" button when I spotted this beautiful image. Someone named Mark Twells uploaded this yesterday; I think I'm going to have to look up his other public photos as well. In this picture, look at the way he's used light and color to add dimension to the scene. It really makes me want to enter the image and go exploring.

Week 3 Thing 5: Advent of the Avatar

I've been playing a bit with a digital camera in a desultory way over the last year. Not much, just taking some photos of my folks, a few nature images, the cat, my husband; primarily creating memory markers or wallpaper images. Flickr is going to change the way I think about taking pictures, though, and I expect I'll be taking quite a few more this year than I ever have in the past. My adventures there have already shown me how much can be done with a little light, a little Picasa, and some imagination.

Here is an image from a set my husband took of our cat, Hunter. She was almost feral when we adopted her a few years ago, but as you can see, she's settled in to near-domesticity. I like the color contrasts he achieved in the image, and the way she seems so unimpressed by the camera.

Following online photo etiquette, I really ought to ask her before posting her pictures, but when I attempt to broach the subject she just flicks her tail and refuses to answer. I have settled on getting the photographer's permission.