A simple practice I’ve learned along the way is changing the view. Stepping back, moving closer, lying sideways, standing on my head. The object can change in subtle and sometimes radical ways, even become something else.
The upstream end of a perpetually soaked tree stump I crawl over by necessity (it is very very slippery) wears patterns and collects colors amid a rushing stream at the Tokatee Klootchman beach access; south of Cape Perpetua on the Oregon mid-coast. I imagine the pug nosed visage of a sea ogre, ready to gulp anything coming downstream…
An outing on a day following heavy rains gave me this first close view of Bear and Raven playfully in spray as I wormed my way across a swollen creek to deep to wade. Once home and dry, the wonders of a computer screen allowed me to safely play with the image and not have to stand on my head.
There are as many ways of perceiving this world as there are eyes to observe. Changing the perspective can change how we see it, and how it sees us.
What might you see?
Great photos…such beautiful colours
Thank you! Two different types of green moss growing together, had there been sunlight the richer hues of wood might have emerged.
Are these really photos! They look like paintings… Beautiful!
Truly photos! Taken on a grey day; I darkened them a smidge and added a bit more contrast, mostly to eliminate some of the glare.
I see a mini-bear about to take a bite out of your ogre’s nose….
Good eye Gunta!
Have you seen the orangutan yet?
Nope… can’t find the orangutan – unless that’s his eyes under the ogre’s eye? That one was a bit of a stretch.
It is perhaps a stretch, yet if you look at the ogre upside down, the ogre eye becomes the orang’s hooting jowls with the pair of eyes above…
That explains it. I’m not awake enough to stand on my head just yet.
Safety first!
Great shots!
Hard to miss when the quarry is literally under the nose!
I’m always amazed at the colors wood gains after being soaked or immersed for a long time.
Yes, but first you have to notice it, and then you have to frame it. I stared at it for a long time trying to comprehend it. I like that!
Thank you Tim!
My favorite view is that comprehension isn’t even required…
When the composition so resembles an abstract that it requires careful comprehension, I think it is very compelling, Unless, it is a crappy out of focus picture, but that is entirely a different subject. You pictures are great!
Thanks… and to give credit where it’s due, my Mother graduated with a degree in photography (in 1950), and basically gave it up to raise a family. Still we always had a darkroom at home, and at an early age I had a lot of encouragement. The least I can do is carry on…
Your mom done good.