Alien Terrain

This picture reminds me of satellite photography, showing blocks of buildings, areas of Autumnal woodland and large bodies of water. There's even scattered clouds in the top right corner. It's actually the top of an old wooden post I'd seen on the bank of the Thames.

This was a way more interesting photo opp than The Shard (I love The Shard, but I've seen it so many times that it can get ordinary-looking) and it's always a nice change of pace to find something less obvious when you're surrounded by tourist attractions.

Spider Hunters

I saw these kids climbing trees in the woods behind my house in the Philippines. What they were doing was looking for spiders, which they would later pair up to fight against each other. Mr. Orange decided to climb the trees, while Mr. Red was on the lookout, directing Mr. Orange to where the big arachnids were.

I kept this shot in colour rather than convert to black & white as the orange and red t-shirts contrasted really well against the green leaves. The colour also helped to define the imaginary rule-of-thirds lines; the picture is divided vertically by the two trees flanking the diagonal trunk, as well as horizontally by the dark green tree canopy up top and light green scrubland down below. The kids sit nicely on the horizontal lines, with the diagonal trunk and Mr. Red's face leading your eye upwards to Mr. Orange.

Welcome Hearts

The recent sunshine is welcome addition to an English summer, we haven't had a dry one for a couple of years now. It also lends itself to creating a lot of high contrast black & white compositions as well as overblowing highlights in certain pictures. I probably should get a ND filter of some kind, maybe a cheaper variable one (I'll be damned if I'm gonna spend serious coin on something I won't use much). For this post, however I thought I'd dig in my archive and find a nice colour pic.

Taken last year around May (before it started raining from June-September, haha). I was drawn to these little doors mainly because of the textures and contrasts between the different colours. Add the clay coloured wall, and it wouldn't look too out of place somewhere in South America. But this was on Regent's Canal, and those are a couple of old door panels from a canal boat.


I'll probably upload a whole batch of b&w photos next time; one-at-a-time is neat for analysis and reflection but some don't need it, they're just nice pictures.