Photography

I have and always will be in awe of photographers that have an eye to capture moments that not all of us can see with a naked eye. Ansel Adams for his incredible black and white landscape photography and Annie Liebovitz for her photographic portraits are among my favorites.  Those photographers closer to "home" that I admire, Mary Wildridge - incredible nature shots as demonstrated in her book "Seeing through the Seasons" and Kari Von Krosigk - also an incredible eye for beauty in nature and wildlife - LaRoca Range is lucky to have your keen eye.  My colleague Diana has shared many of her amazing photographs and given me different perspectives on shot composition - literally. I have on rare occasion taken a photograph that I think "wow - I got the composition right !"  Funnily enough, 2 of my favorites involve my nephew, Heath.

Now for those of you that know Heath, getting him to smile for a photograph can be a tough feat !  And although he appears in both...he didn't need to smile  ;-)

The first was taken up in Sudbury...the Big Nickel gives it away.  Heath is in the foreground, with my niece Haley midway and friends in the background. There is something about Heath's stance in the foreground, the depth of the others behind and the nickel amongst the clouds ... that really appeals to me from a composition point of view.





In the second, you see the shadow of Heath who has scampered up a tree to have a bit of a self-inflicted timeout. In the shadows it looks as if Heath is in the tree head-to-head in discussion with someone else in the tree.  Heath is actually the shadow on the left.

I didn't realize what a cool image I had captured until later.  At which point Heath said, "Well, Aunt Stephanie, if I hadn't gotten so mad, I wouldn't have climbed the tree and you wouldn't have taken that cool photograph - right ?"

Yes Heath ;-)