I love photography. I haven’t mentioned it so far but I’m sure i’ll be writing about it in the near future.
In fact, like many things, I got a bit obsessive about photography at one point and invested in equipment and lenses and ‘stuff’ I most likely will never use again. But we travel a lot and I just loved taking photographs. Nowadays, I take snaps – mainly of my daughter laughing. But every so often I drag the ‘big camera’ (technical term!) out of its bag, dust off a lens or two and try to pretend I know how to use it. I don’t really.
The great thing about digital cameras these days is that everybody and their pet dog can become a photographer, a processor, a designer, a printing shop. Everyone can do a ‘bit’ of photoshop, even if its not done on Photoshop itself. And those clever folk at Kodak have created a great app for us to create fantastic wall art. I say ‘wall’ and I mean ‘wall’ – we’re talking giant pieces of work here in which you can print out a photograph on between 4 and 16 pieces of A4 sheets – piece them together or add gaps to give it a bit of panache
Kodak has partnered with Britmums to have some fun with their new Big App and challenged people to come up with a photo that it could work well with.
Now, to choose a photo. If I tell you I have 10’s of 1000’s of photos taken through the years, its not easy task. So I thought I’d whittle it down as quickly as possible and keep it simple. I chose a trip to Mexico and I remembered something I try to do as often as possible – Don’t forget when you’re within a natural environment to always look up. So I’ve found two simple photos where I used that rule. We’ll call one a tree and the other a flower. The fact that they were taken in Mexico – well, that just sounded good!
Please do let me know which one you prefer.
Sit on the floor and look up. Honest!
Looking up - its sometimes the best angle
And if you fancy taking part yourself, you can get some inspiration and enter here
Easy… The tree.
I agree photos taken by looking up can be very dramatic. One of my favourite ways to takes photos too. I also like to take pictures of things through windows so using the window as the frame for what you see through it.
I recently mastered spider webs!!
Aah yes – the window frame photo. I like those too! Spider webs? now thats impressive 🙂
Thanks
Two fabulous photos. The white flower (I can’t remember the name) is all over California and I guess Mexico too. I think I’d pick that one as it would be really cool to blow up onto a wall. xx
oh no its one-all lol. Yeah, those flowers are everywhere and they’re so striking. This was taken in the garden of an old monastry – which had been converted to a lovely little hotel
Both great pictures. I think my favourite has to be the flower though! The tree is awesome too….So hard to decide!
heheh thanks! I really like the flower, but my preference changes by the day!
I love the pic of the flower. I find macro really beautiful. Both are great though.
Thank you! I can’t decide – Its so difficult to be impartial on your own things
I like the flower, but the perspective on the tree is cool. x
another split decision! Maybe i’ll just make both of them!
I’ve always been a sucker for impressive trees, so that definitely gets my vote. Were you using a wide-angle lens? You can practically smell the forest and hear the birdsong.
Hi, just wanted to let you know there’s a new Kodak challenge going, with two new printers/ink to be won for all you crafty mums. All you have to do is post about a photo printer craft, or post a pic you’d love to use in a printer craft. More info here: http://tinyurl.com/d3tre5l Hope you can enter. Good luck! -susanna
Hi Susanna,
thanks for this – wow, another one. But i’ll have to put my thinking cap on for this….sounds like fun.!
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