Whilst out in the local beech woods on Sunday morning I wanted to try and capture not only the autumnal colours but also the movement of the leaves to express how windy these past days have been due to a storm system crossing the country. I used a slow camera speed to try an capture the flutter of leaves in the cool October wind. I know this kind of contradicts what we try and do in photography, which is to attempt to capture the world perfectly still, between bouts of wind, but I thought I would just run with it, go with the flow of the wind and see where it took me 🙂
October 2017, Staffordshire, England.
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You did it, nice job.
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Thank you, David 🙂
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Got to be a renegade once in a while!
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Indeed! 🙂
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Lovely effect!
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Thank you, Belinda 🙂 It was nice to try something out of the comfort zone.
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This looks like an impressionist painting.
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Thank you 🙂
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Oh, yes Pete… you must try stuff like that and keep pushing the boundaries. It does have a very fluttery effect, and personally I think its very artistic. I’m kinda laughing at myself here because I’m hardly qualified to make such pronouncements! But the effect reminds me of Susan Enwhistle’s art which Nigel and I saw at the only Chelsea Flower Show we’ve ever attended. Do you know her work? If not, she’s at https://www.susanentwistle.com/
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Thank you, Liz 🙂 Thank you for the link to Susan’s site, too. Very impressionist and pure beauty!
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I really like the kind of impressionist feel of your image, Pete. Keep breaking the rules. 🙂
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Thank you very much, MIke 🙂 It is nice to do something different once in a while, just to see how it turns out 🙂
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Very soothing sight of the foliage, Pete!
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Thank you, Indira 🙂
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I like the sense of movement you’ve captured there. It makes quite an artistic picture!
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Thank you, Helen 🙂 It was so windy that day, and I wasn’t sure whether it would work out or not.
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While it’s true that many of us like crispness in many or most of our photographs, no hard-and-fast rules exist about what must be done or can’t be done in a photograph. I’m suddenly reminded of the line from Rabelais: “Fais ce que voudras,” “Do whatever you wish.”
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A very wise line indeed 🙂
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You captured the beauty of storm ‘Brian’.
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Thank you, Brian 🙂
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Nicely captured. Every time I try it ends up looking very blurred.
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Thank you very much, Jill 🙂 You know, I took quite a few photos about this and rejected most of them. This was the first photo of the bunch I took which I thought kinda worked.
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