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Cuba Colour

Cuba is a stand out location for street photography - everywhere you look there are colourfully dressed people standing by colourful buildings, which they often match so well you could almost think they had been professionally placed by an artist. 

Even the sea seems to compliment the colours worn

and I love this blue and white combination

The stalls  at the farmers market look colourful too.

Despite my love of colour I am going to end this final post about our Cuban adventures with a couple of desaturated pictures. Why? because I like these particular images better like that, and I wanted to include them! Enjoy!

tags: cuba, street photography, colour, people
categories: Photography, travel
Tuesday 03.22.16
Posted by Barbara Evans
 

Garden Colour

“To-day I think
Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,
And bracken, and wild carrot’s seed,
And the square mustard field;

Odours that rise
When the spade wounds the root of tree,
Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,
Rhubarb or celery;

The smoke’s smell, too,
Flowing from where a bonfire burns
The dead, the waste, the dangerous,
And all to sweetness turns.

It is enough
To smell, to crumble the dark earth,
While the robin sings over again
Sad songs of Autumn mirth.”
— Edward Thomas

Whilst autumn has arrived around here, its not really at full stretch in the countryside yet. The native trees are still to reveal themselves in their full glory and its early to be crunching leaves underfoot. In the garden, however, things are a bit different.

There are browns and golds, seed heads and sedums

pots hanging on by the skin of their teeth.

The colours are glorious, there are rich reds

and pinks

and things that shine

Whether naturally or with the intervention of man.  Almost certainly our last autumn here I will savour every moment.

tags: autumn, garden, plants, flowers, poetry, Edward Thomas, colour, reflections
categories: Nature, Photography
Monday 10.13.14
Posted by Barbara Evans
Comments: 10
 

Photographic Simplicity

“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
— George Sand

This month I have joined a Flickr group called 'Photographic Simplicity' It is the brainchild of Kim Manley Ort and is a public group so you can all join in! 

The aim of the Group is to 'remove unnecessary and distracting elements to get to the essence of your subject'

Lambretta

sometimes this seems quite simple, other times you realised you have posted a picture because you just took it and you really like it but it doesn't really meet the criteria. Which I think is true of this next one.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci

Back on track with this though!

I usually fail fairly early on with an of these post a picture a day challenges so I am really proud to have reached day 14 without missing one.

hands 2.jpg

I have to admit though I have cheated just a little bit! I find it really hard to take photos every day especially when I am at work and its dark most of the time when I'm not - I sometimes manage to get out at lunchtime but not always. Also I much prefer taking pictures with my DSLR that my iPhone or iPad.

Taken with my iPad 

though sometimes I just spot something that seems to fit the bill and capture it with what I have to hand!

Taken with my iPhone 

So somedays I take more that one photo which I then use on subsequent days if I don't manage to take one - all photos are new though and taken within the last few days so I hope I can be forgiven.

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
— Walt Whitman

The garden has been a great source of inspiration with a few blossoms braving the December chill

I don't particularly plan what to take things just catch my eye like the girders at Waterloo station that I spotted yesterday when I was trying to photograph the crowds and the Christmas tree (which worked well in the end but definitely didn't pass the simplicity test though it could turn up as next years Christmas card!)

Doing this has really made me really think more about the essence of photography - I am often naturally drawn to complex subjects and bright colours so this has given me the opportunity to rethink, and appreciate the simplicity of the  monochrome or muted colour.  

It's also got me really thinking about light

“The spirit’s foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication”
— Georges Santayana

both natural and artificial

so 14 down 17 to go - my feeling is that the challenge will get more difficult as the run up to Christmas gets more hectic, so fingers crossed I manage to keep going!

tags: simplicity, challenge, nature. garden, photography, flowers, momochrome, colour
categories: Nature, Photography
Sunday 12.15.13
Posted by Barbara Evans
Comments: 5
 
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