You've heard of her indirectly before. My girlfriend is an aspiring potter who is still working an IT dayjob.
She's awesome...
I digress.
We sometimes go on a walks with a list of objectives, as you'd have with a treasure hunt. The difference is that our treasure is visual: the game is like a hybrid between a photo-safari and a treasure hunt.
Here's a set from one such a walk we took a couple years back. Most of these were taken with a point and shooter (canon Ixus) except for a couple that were taken with a mobile phone.
Care to guess who is A and who is B? ; j
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| Small A |
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| Small B |
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| Big B |
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| Big A |
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| Ugly A |
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| Ugly B |
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| Beauty A |
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| Beauty B |
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| Bug B |
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| Bug A |
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| Moving A |
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| Still A |
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| Moving B |
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| Still B |
Ah, I love the juxtaposition of these images and the different perspectives on the same concept/theme!
ReplyDeleteI love Big A, Beauty A, Beauty B, and Moving B. So I guess I think you're both excellent photographers. You should think about compiling a book, so you two can eventually quit your day jobs.
ReplyDeleteI like Beauty A and Ugly A. No one makes trash look as good as you...or beauty :)
ReplyDeleteI bow at the skill that produced such great shots from such unsophisticated devices! O_o
ReplyDeleteLove the idea, by the way. Too bad I'm too lousy a shot with a camera to ever play it.
Being painfully well acquainted with your mitts makes it easy to guess who's A and who's B from that "moving B" pic'. I shall therefore not reveal it, that would be "no fairs". ;)
What a great game, I wanna play!
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Aloha Sangu!
Absolutely the differing perspective on the same subject is a huge part of what makes it so fun.
We laughed when we saw we used the same approach on "Ugly".
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Greetings Theresa!
Thanks! That's very kind of you to say. We both know it takes more than one book to have it made. : j Besides it's more fun to just play it as a game.
Hey! Asides from the moving pic, you've just listed my favorite shots!
The thing about the moving pic is that the blur in the background is a ghost subway station, one that was built and used for three months in the seventies then shutdown. Now you can only see it for 10~20seconds when you ride by it. ; j
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Ahoy Annie! I'll transmit your compliments to my girlfriend. Those are her shots. : j
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Djin dobry, Shi Rong Lang! Lol, actually, resolution and horsepower for low res casual jpeg snapshots like these isn't that big a deal, but thanks for the compliments. ; j
Huh, I would have expected you to have a good eye as a result of your training. It really helps... But I guess that may be less important if you practice solo. Shrug. : j
And did the thought occur to you, mister smarty pants, that moving B was my hands shot by my girlfriend? Hmm?
Of course, you are right. : j
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Heya Eryl! Do you really?
That could be fun!
We could each suggest a theme, pool our 3 themes, and after two weeks post our nine pictures.
We're all busy, but 3 pictures in 2 weeks time shouldn't be that much of time drain. : j
So whaddaya say?
The floating feather pic is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThere's something hopeful yet tragic about the feather. It matches well with the match. I gravitate towards the skewed shots.
ReplyDeleteMy eye is fine, but I suck technique-wise... I don't know why, but no matter how hard I try my pictures' lighting always seems either desperately plain and uninteresting, or way too dark. I almost always have to adjust the contrast and brightness afterwards for the photo to come out remotely the way I intended it. Oh well, I guess it just takes practice, just like pretty much everything else.
ReplyDeleteI must admit I hadn't thought the hands on "Moving B" could've been someone else's than the photographer's. Looks like I still need to work on my "smarty pants" skills - too. ;)
this are wonderful photos. What an awesome objective to go around with purpose forcing yourself to really look at the things around you
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I'm loving your photo postings Alesa - that feather truly is a thing of beauty.
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Great idea, when do we start?
ReplyDeleteOops, lost track of the comments on this post. Sorry for the delayed answers everyone!
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Hey there MP. Thanks! : j
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Tragic, Theresa? In this too, pictures are like writing: it can be experienced completely differently from one person to another... It changes drastically depending on where you're standing when you see the picture. :l
Where are you standing?
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LoL Shi Ronglang. Have you tried taking pictures since last time we talked? You're absolutely right, practice does make a huge amount of difference in photography too. Both in shaping one's eye as well as in mastering one's camera. : j
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Thanks Jillien! But this game is really more like trying to capture and share the things I see that I find of interest, and expressing in such a way that conveys what I saw. I try to See things as they are whatever happens, anything else would be living in illusions... And once those gets mixed up with reality, well you never know which doors need opening before you walk through them. : j
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Aloha Lulu! Thanks! And a great new year to you too! : D
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G'day Eryl! How about starting now? I left a comment on your blog. : j
Yup Alesa, as a matter of fact I have; and I did see some improvement. Thanks a lot for the tips! ;)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pics!!!
ReplyDeleteFavorites: Small B, Big A,Ugly A, Beauty B, Bug A,Still B. Still B plain and simple rocked. = )
Ooo. This is great. I look forward to the next 9 on the 15th.
ReplyDeleteI am seriously, madly in love with your flying leaf photo. It is absolutely gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThe angry face on the coffee canteen also cracked me up!!
What a genius game! My friend will love this and with her photography skills I'm sure she'll only grow to do more with her creative talents! Thanks so much for the idea guys.
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Whoops! I lost track of the comments on this post! Many apologies everyone!
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Hello Clara! Wow, lots of favourites! Glad you enjoyed the pics! Especially coffee-kun, the disgruntled canteen: I have a weak spot for him. ; j
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Aloha Kass! I hope we lived up to your expectations!
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Nihao Tracy! Thank you! That feather really did turn out well.... Especially when you consider how unprepossessing the original was.
It's neat how lenses can beautify, disfigure, or just transcribe reality... They're nimble that way. ; j
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Hello Amy! Thanks for stopping by. I hope your friend has fun with it if she gives it a whirl.