Welcome to our P52! This project is designed to get you out with your camera once a week in a meaningful way. Each week I will post a prompt for you to consider. The prompts are merely suggestions, and you are free to shoot off topic if you wish. All images posted must be taken by you, be safe for work, and be taken with this project in mind. Please do not post archive photos. For a further discussion of the guidelines, please refer to this thread, and you can find the previous weeks linked there if you missed them. Feel free to join in at any time of the year, and you may go back to missed weeks if you still wish to participate.
Week 15: Nature
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Hello, P52ers! This week is hopefully an easy one; we will get back into some more technique themes as we go along, but I tried to sprinkle in some less demanding topics throughout the year.
Nature is defined as “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.” It’s no secret that most of my own photography features nature in some way, and I often take a camera out when I am doing my daily walk with my dog. Don’t be discouraged if you live in an urban area, as there are surprisingly a lot of opportunities to find nature even in the city.
I am lucky enough to have a local park to walk through daily with Halley, and we are just beginning to get a lot of greenery and blooms.
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Yesterday I made my first trip to my favorite local garden center, and while I didn’t buy a lot just yet, I always love to take my camera to photograph masses of flowers together that I just can’t achieve at my own house. If you don’t have a local garden center (even a big box store like Home Depot would be great for this), many famer’s markets are setting up shop now that we have moved into April (of course, this is highly variable based on your location and weather).
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My family takes a trip to NYC almost once a year (it is where my husband and I lived when we were first married) and I unwittingly discovered after one of our recent trips that I tend to find all the flowers smack in the middle of the city. Even the midtown-Manhattan Apple Store has trees underground! You can easily find planters and parks even in the middle of any large city.
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Not quite in the city, and not quite in the country? These images were both taken in a parking lot yesterday (I’ll try to get a pull back of them today, which I didn’t think to do yesterday).
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I often like to highlight the juxtaposition of inside/outside, or you can even find murals that repeat a nature theme (as always, I’m pretty lax with interpretation - just be sure your photo is new please). If you happen to be at a natural history museum this week, I'll allow photos of skeletons and bones, all of which came from nature.
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Feel free to show any extremes your own weather might experience this week. Rain and snow are definitely a large part of nature.
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And nature of course encompasses animals as well as plants. Be open to finding nature everywhere; my husband spotted the hawk in the upper right of this collage this weekend while we were at my son’s lacrosse game, and the 150-600mm lens I had mounted came in handy at that moment.
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As always, excited to see what everyone finds this week.
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Week 15: Nature
Hello, P52ers! This week is hopefully an easy one; we will get back into some more technique themes as we go along, but I tried to sprinkle in some less demanding topics throughout the year.
Nature is defined as “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.” It’s no secret that most of my own photography features nature in some way, and I often take a camera out when I am doing my daily walk with my dog. Don’t be discouraged if you live in an urban area, as there are surprisingly a lot of opportunities to find nature even in the city.
I am lucky enough to have a local park to walk through daily with Halley, and we are just beginning to get a lot of greenery and blooms.
Yesterday I made my first trip to my favorite local garden center, and while I didn’t buy a lot just yet, I always love to take my camera to photograph masses of flowers together that I just can’t achieve at my own house. If you don’t have a local garden center (even a big box store like Home Depot would be great for this), many famer’s markets are setting up shop now that we have moved into April (of course, this is highly variable based on your location and weather).
My family takes a trip to NYC almost once a year (it is where my husband and I lived when we were first married) and I unwittingly discovered after one of our recent trips that I tend to find all the flowers smack in the middle of the city. Even the midtown-Manhattan Apple Store has trees underground! You can easily find planters and parks even in the middle of any large city.
Not quite in the city, and not quite in the country? These images were both taken in a parking lot yesterday (I’ll try to get a pull back of them today, which I didn’t think to do yesterday).
I often like to highlight the juxtaposition of inside/outside, or you can even find murals that repeat a nature theme (as always, I’m pretty lax with interpretation - just be sure your photo is new please). If you happen to be at a natural history museum this week, I'll allow photos of skeletons and bones, all of which came from nature.
Feel free to show any extremes your own weather might experience this week. Rain and snow are definitely a large part of nature.
And nature of course encompasses animals as well as plants. Be open to finding nature everywhere; my husband spotted the hawk in the upper right of this collage this weekend while we were at my son’s lacrosse game, and the 150-600mm lens I had mounted came in handy at that moment.
As always, excited to see what everyone finds this week.
