tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

As threatened in an earlier discussion *snickers*, these are the rest of the photos I entered in the local museum's first annual photography expo. and contest.

I tried to choose photographs that most exhibited NATURE'S art, but as it turned out (as evidenced by some of the other entries); the interpretation was not that strict. :)

As will always be the case with the photos I share here; Comments/Critiques are always welcome.

T~

Titled: "Art in Nature"


Titled: Before the Storm" (as this is what the sky looked like BEFORE an horrendous storm last summer)


Titled:" Blue on Black"


Titled: " Dainty Dewdrop"


Titled:"Tiny Dragonfly Staring Me Down"


Titled: "Zen"

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

Interesting eye there, ~ . About the only thing I have even remotely approaching your natural artwork is this hunk of driftwood that I spied along the Delaware River about three years ago. I thought the wormwood effect was kinda neat. Then I got stung by a bunch of mosquitos and lost my focus, so to speak.

Wormwood

KishaB Loc: Northern Indiana

I love love the "zen" as well as "blue on black"!

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

Thank you for the compliment :)
Yep, I prefer the quirky stuff... so you HAVE to know... this pic of yours rocks! Thanks for sharing it.
(I was going to congratulate ya on the chance photo-op... but it sounds like you paid a hefty price for it. Yeouch!)

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

If you're on the Delmarva, you know all about our native mozzies - New Jersey state bird, they are.

josoIII

I love the fade in color tones on the butterfly, nice click.

out walking with the kids...

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

Hubby's from the Dias Creek area (SOUTH south Jersey ;) ).
He begs to differ... says Green Heads should be the state bird (and follows his statement up with a few select expletives lol)

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

Thank you... but HOLY CRAP, man!
This photo of YOURS gave me the warm-n-fuzzies... ALL over!

I'm a bit of an arachne-freak and have a few shots that I was (that's... WAS ) proud of.

May I please copy/save and use this for my laptop wallpaper?
*fans self*
Whew!....

josoIII

Thank you for the comment, feel free to right click an save.

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

Dias Creek is down the road from us a bit - and yes, the green head is another hated scourge of the area around here. There's some talk of genetically breeding green heads to eat mosquitos, and then squirrels to eat the green heads, but I don't think it's going anywhere...

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

Well, if my comment is technical, forgive me. Perhaps these photos for a contest require the composition that you've given them. But they all seem rather centered except for the butterfly. And the sunset image, although the colors are beautiful, I would have cropped about 1/3 of the sky out leaving the subject with more interest. The sky above where I cropped lacked interest IMO.

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

*smiles*
Believe it or not, arphot, I have another photo where I did exactly as you did with it... a more panoramic view eliminating the vertical colors.
For me, personally... that cropped out exactly what held my interest in the photo in the first place, and I suspected it would have similar results with the viewers and judges at the contest.

It was coincidence that these are more centered, not a requirement of the contest. In hindsight, perhaps this could be one of the reasons why none of them placed, too!

That particular section of photography was saturated with amazing photos of sunsets/sunrises as it was. I didn't stand a CHANCE lol.

Everyone assumed it was a sunset or sunrise because the title was written on the back of the photo! *snickers*

(BTW- This wasn't a sunset, although it looked like it. It was what the sky looked like JUST before a terrible, summer storm... around 5pm. Typically, storms move west to east where I was living then. This photo was taken of the eastern sky just before that storm got here. I probably should have turned around and captured the darkened clouds, too!)

I am not a fan of centering things, and I often screw around with the rule of thirds as well... but the ones shown as centered in this selection, were zoomed in-on for the detail, which, imo, represented "Nature's Art" in the first place (or else, as in the case of the seagull, were far away and not planning to come any closer and sit still for me to get the details in the feathers. There was little , if anything, around the subjects of interest enough to keep.).

I really liked the juxtaposition between the fragility and softness of the butterfly's wings against the hard, textured asphalt though and the colors worked very well together, so I deliberately left it off-center for that reason.

Thank you very much, for your critique and for tweaking the photo more to your preferences. That's why I'm so smitten with photography... it's crazy-subjective!

Imo, there is no "right or wrong" in photography... it's only what works for the artist (artist FIRST, then the beholder, imo), or what doesn't work.

I sincerely appreciate your comments :)

T~

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

Photography is as subjective as food: some people love Brussels Sprouts & others hate em.( I love em) I like what you did with the butterfly. It doesn't have to compete with a flower, which is usually the case. I don't recall seeing any pavement in nature but it is a good shot. Might want to crop a little to bring it closer to the eye level. Love the zen. Keep shooting & have fun with it!

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

Very interesting shot of wormwood. Like it.
Oh btw, my flikr user name isn't skeeterdelight fo nothing. They prosper in NC too. lol

areyouseriouss

Thanks for the Zen now. What comes later ? Art in Nature is very welcoming.