Good morning from a cooler but calmer Hastings day.
I love doing challenges. It means stretching myself to finding new photos and interpretations. I have now got them written down to keep an idea what is coming up. In particular for Cee’s challenges and Jennifer’s One Word Photo challenge. Jennifer has finished with her colours and has now moved onto the weather. Most of the weather phenomenon is easy – sun, clouds. storm. But wind is invisible. So I have been trying to get photos of branches and leaves moving in the wind. I tried to slow the shutter speed but my fixed lens doesn’t stop down enough so I got some horribly over exposed images.
On Wednesday the weather was very windy so over the day I kept trying to get some photos of the branches bent over and blurry from movement. This was the most successful photo of the day.
I will keep at it. My next idea is to peg some towels on the washing line and take photos of the towels blowing in the wind. Puts a whole new spin on Bob Dylan’s song “Blowing in the Wind”.
Anyway it is appropriate for The Daily Post‘s challenge today – Forces of Nature.
#FridayFoto: Scottish Weather – A Force Of Nature Not To Be Reckoned With…
https://nowathome.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/forces-of-nature/
https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/forces-of-nature-lightning/
https://hopethehappyhugger.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/forces-of-nature/
https://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/wpc-the-force-of-a-mighty-wind/
https://marshaleith.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/wordpress-weekly-photo-challenge-forces-of-nature/
The Daily Post: WPC Force of Nature
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Very evocative wind shot, Raewyn! 🙂
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Thanks Paula. I took so many photos. The wind was really bad that day.
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I have to admit that I am not a big friend of wind, not lately with my sinus problems, but as a kid I liked the sound of wind.
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Actually I am not a fan of wind. It upsets me a little but I am getting around that by trying to get some good photos. It was really bad that day. When I was at Cornwall Park yesterday I noticed a few branches lying on the ground and a few broken branches still on the tree. So it was a bad day
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Great job…can feel the wind. 🙂
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Thanks Gigi. It was actually hard to do. I think I will hang some towels on the line and take photos of them for the wind prompt from Jennifer.
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great capture of the wind
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Thanks.
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We get wind most of the time here in the Chicago area, so I’m used to it, although I don’t always enjoy it. It can also make taking photos of things like flowers much more difficult, as they keep dancing around rather than standing still!
janet
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I know what you mean. I have always thought of Chicago as the windy city. It does make floral photography really, really hard.
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It IS called the Windy City, Raewyn, and for good reason. I’ve also heard the name comes at least in part from the hot air put out by the politicians. Either way works. 🙂
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Lol. We have the same with Wellington – Windy Wellington with our government based in Wellington so the sentiments can be based on them too.
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If you have a steady wind, you can focus on a stable point, like a rock, a wall, the tree’s trunk, or something like that. Then let everything move while you shoot. Sometimes you catch the wind motion. The trick is to focus on something that doesn’t move … and take a LOT of exposures, rapidly in a row. Sometimes the magic works, sometimes not, but I’ve gotten some good results that way.
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Thanks for the tip Marilyn. Will work on it.
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very successful!
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Thanks Aletta
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