Just these ones

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Lens-Artists Challenge: Picking Favourites

This was a difficult challenge. Most people would expect that I would choose a bird photo or perhaps flowers but this time I have gone into not what makes this a great photo but why.

Sarah provided a brief that was quite prescriptive wanting to know: – “Tell us a bit about each of your three photos please. Where you took it and when. Why you are pleased with it and have chosen it for this challenge. Does it evoke some special memories that influenced your choice of it as a favourite? Has it won a competition perhaps? Or is it simply a shot you love and are pleased to have taken. It doesn’t matter, by the way, if you’ve shared it before. The best images are worth seeing more than once, after all.”

Earlier today I was looking at the posts of people I follow and from Ann-Christine She wrote “…I can see that I photograph more with my heart than with camera and lens….” This resonated with me and I commented “I must agree that when you take a photo with your heart, it shines through the lens, captured forever. Looking back that sense of heart glows ever bright remembering the moment”

This first photo is a place of calm and is one of my favourite places to go. The peace and looking over the rest of the Gibraltar Range from Raspberry Lookout. I am lucky that it is not far from my place. This is a place where my heart does feel at peace and the photos I take shine through.

Coming back into the urban environment, I was sitting in the Byron Bay Bakery where the windows are almost floor to ceiling with seating waiting for my bestie. In front of the bakery the street plantings are Lilli Pilli bushes which at the time were flowering. The colour of the flowers against the grey of the street took my eye.

Always with camera at hand, I focused to get the photo I saw and then just then, what could be called a zen moment, a Stingless Native Bee cruised over to check out the flower. Stingless Native Bees are about 10mm in length. A macro photo using telephoto with the camera just set on auto.

I love sunset photos when the sky is special. This photo takes in another part of my life as I live in the bush or countryside and cattle are in nearly all of the farms around. A silhouette against a coloured sky makes a strong image. Sometimes cows tend to pose at the right time in the right place.

OK I am sneaking in just one more so I can break the “rules”

It is not often that a Moon Flower opens in the Full Moon as they are supposed to do but when they do they are spectacular. I cannot remember the camera settings, probably hand held night scene function on my camera. I had my bestie as my assistant and she held the torch so I might get that just right photo

42 thoughts on “Just these ones”

  4. I adore these photos, Brian. You did brilliantly to pick from so many! Tongue in cheek there. 🙂 The bee cruising by makes that flower photo really special. I would have picked the silhouetted cow for one of your favourites. I have never heard of a moon flower. It is truly spectacular.

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    1. Thank you ever so much Tracy. I was doing a sort of photos a few days ago and decided to look how many I had to pick from. Just over 78,000 photos or 333GB of photos. 😲

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  13. If you’ve been to Spain you’ll surely have seen the black bull silhouetted against the skyline which appears on some hillsides (mostly in Andalucia), the 46 ft bull is was originally erected as an advertisement for Osborne Veterano brandy. Your cow reminds me very much of that (you can Google it go see the resemblance/contrast). Love the moonflower.

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  17. Love your set, Brian. LOVE. That bee and the bull at sunset! Gorgeous captures. And the moon flower looks almost like my Princess, doesn’t it! Stunning shot!

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