Saturday Morning PhotoWalk

Recently NAPP held a photowalk around different cities in the world. I was unable to participate in one but decided Saturday morning to do one of my own. I have often commented on this blog that you can always find new things to photograph even around your own home. Well this time I found a number of things such as the bushel of ripe peaches just waiting to be processed later that day. I had recently read an article in one of my photo magazines that suggested that to continue to improve your photography skills was not only practical but necessary. Then it listed 5 exercises to do to help to hone your skills. So I was also thinking about this as I went out. One of those things was to just look for color and another to just look for light. Well the following images came from that little exercise. I also had fun realizing how different things can be in only a few seconds. I will put more images from this photowalk on the blog later but for now here are three of them that I really quite liked.


My wife wanted to walk over to one of the neighbors and deliver some gifts that she had for them to honor the wife and mother that had recently passed away at age 95. We were waiting for their grandson to come out of the field from feeding their horses so I decided to continue shooting more pictures since I still had my camera with me. I loved this old piece of equipment that is in the yard.



My favorite image however came as I was passing one of the sheds and the sun came out from behind the clouds and shed light through the windows and cracks in the wall on the other side of the shed from where I was walking. This took me back to the days of my youth growing up on a farm with many of the same types of scenes constantly in front of my view. I didn't photograph as many of them as I do now but the images are still very much in my memory,
Finally I wanted to brag just a little. I was honored this week by having one of my images picked as one of 6 editors choice images for the NAPP Portfolio. Go to the following link between now and Wednesday to see the image and others that were chosen. http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/