What’s Your Preference?

pjflan7 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 12:47 AM

Take a look at the first picture and you decide.......your answer probably will be "both". That would be my answer. The yellow flowers are obvious and they catch your attention as you drive by; but the blue ones were beside the telephone pole support wire. It had a yellow protective plastic sleeve on it to make people aware that it is there. I probably didn't spend anymore than 4-minutes there as I had another 8-10 miles to go to get to work. But in all mostg people drive by and do not even notice. I believe that all photographers have a heightened sense of color, space, design and composition and are always "framing" the view. There is alot of experience out there on DPS, what do you all think.....do you find beauty or does it find you?

JFSanders · #2 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 12:57 AM

I was staring at those same type of bluebells? at a customer's house today. A climbing vine pouring over a board on board privacy fence. I even wrote down the address so I could go back tomorrow! You are right about the framing and composition tick. I find myself doing it all the time.

jrdnjstn · #3 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 01:16 AM

I believe the blue ones are Morning Glories
Very beautiful flowers

FDCPR · #4 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 01:22 AM

Great shots Patrick, love the map you have made. Can't see using it for the birds though, you'll have lines everywhere as they move around fast.

shmelly · #5 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 01:43 AM

Patrick I totally agree with you, there is beauty everywhere, in everything, but the trick is to see it. The more I use my camera the more beauty I am beginning to see around me, I drive my husband mad sometimes looking at strange things or saying, Did you see that? One of the biggest steps I made when I was painting is realizing that shadows are not various shades of grey, it was after that I began to see colour in everything around me (and, no, I haven't been smoking funny stuff). And I love your descriptions in the first photo.

Essy · #6 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 01:50 AM

Too funny...I found myself taking pictures of my laundry today. I'm really new at this so I'm still in shock over this new 'sensation'.

Nathan deGargoyle · #7 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 01:57 AM

How did you miss the beauty of the old hydrant? or the contrast between the colour of the telegraph pole and the greenery behind it? Or the rough texture but contrasting yellows and green of the grasses? Or....

There is much more beqauty there than flowers!

fstopMike · #8 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 02:11 AM

Photography opens ones eyes to beauty. It's there, not everyone can see it. Beauty finds you through the viewfinder so you can find it in nature. well, sounds good anyway...

pjflan7 · #9 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Nathan deGargoyle

How did you miss the beauty of the old hydrant? or the contrast between the colour of the telegraph pole and the greenery behind it? Or the rough texture but contrasting yellows and green of the grasses? Or....

There is much more beqauty there than flowers!

Ah Nathan, you are so right and yet I was pressed for time and could not browse that day, but a day or two before, I took a picture of a fire hydrant in the tall grasses.....so I am including this shot just to show that I don't miss these things!

teedlepeep · #10 (**permalink**) 09-05-2009, 02:29 AM

I'm going with both lol It is amazing what you find beautiful when you are behind a lens. You start looking at colors, hues, contrasts, textures, patterns and on and on it goes

Really before you picked up a camera how many times did you really stop to look at the petals on a flower or the wings of a bug ???