Many thanks to John Steiner of Journeys with Johnbo for hosting this weeks Lens-Artists Photo Challenge “On the Water”.
His challenge immediately made me think of boats and ships. Boats are a common sight on the water where I live in coastal Georgia. There are pleasure boats, working boats, and even giant container ships going in and out of the port of Savannah. The above image is the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle as it led the 2012 Tall Ships Challenge out of Savannah.
I love to see boats on the water wherever we wander.
Tina’s challenge this week is to show the same subject but captured using multiple, different approaches. I chose to include three different images each of which was edited in different ways.
In honor America’s Independence day, the first image I selected is of the Tybee Island Lighthouse flying a giant American Flag. The finished image is at the top of this page. Below are the before and after images. The original photo needed a little cropping to remove the corner of a roof in the bottom right hand corner. I liked the way it looked after cropping but then took an extra step to add a little drama by removing all of the colors except for the red, white and blue of the American Flag.
My second image is an orange zinnia. To me, the background in the original image on the left distracts from the detail of the center of the flower. The cropped image focuses on the deatils.
My final images are of animals in the savanna at The Animal Kingdom Lodge in Walt Disney World. The image on the left is the original photo which shows a chain link fence and a building behind the giraffe indicating it wasn’t taken in a wild place. It also shows three other animals in front of the giraffe. The image on the right was cropped to only show the giraffe’s face and neck with trees in the background.
Amy introduced this challenge using the lyrics to one of my favorite songs, Louis Armstrong’s “It’s a Wonderful World.”
I see trees of green Red roses too I see them bloom For me and you…
Trees of GreenRed Roses too
I see skies of blue And clouds of white The bright blessed day The dark sacred night
Skies of blueClouds of whiteDark Sacred Night
The colors of the rainbow So pretty in the sky Are also on the faces Of people going by I see friends shaking hands Saying, “How do you do?” They’re really saying “I love you”
Colors of the Rainbow
Yes, I think to myself What a wonderful world
I think Louis Armstrong got it right. It’s the simple things around us that make it a wonderful world.
This fun challenge is brought to us by Ann-Christine.
The shadow of the bridge at the top of the page was taken from the Hurricane Turn Train stopped on the bridge over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska. The shadow of the airplane is from a flight seeing trip to see Mt. Denali in Alaska.
Closer to home in Georgia are shadows of a fence out in the country and an Egret flying over a salt water creek at low tide.
During our RV travels we were happy campers when we found a campsite with a shady place to set up our chairs.
This fun challenge is brought to us by Patti. From her blog post: “For this challenge, pick a color and select several photos that feature that color. Start with a photo of a big subject in that color (for example, a wall) and move all the way down to a small subject in that same color (for example, an earring).”
Red is the first of two colors I chose. The image at the top of the page is the largest red image I could think of. The University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium is filled with over 92,000 fans and is lit up in red in between quarters during football games in the fall. Next is a red NASCAR car with the pit crew in red uniforms during a pit stop. Even smaller is the red sweater worn by the University of Georgia’s mascot, a white English Bulldog named Uga. The smallest red items are tiny red Penta flowers in my garden.
My second color is green. Emerald green fields in Ireland are the largest. Next is a the Jolly Green Giant Statue in Minnesota. If you look closely you can see Henry standing between his feet. A female Painted Bunting is next followed by a closeup of a tiny green lynx spider on a zinnia.
Wandering Dawgs 