My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) – week 11
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LAST WEEK’S ENTRIES: My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – WEEK 10 (23 -30 Oct)
Pictures are cropped, please visit the original post (links below) to view the full pictures with the photographer’s original thoughts on them :)
Clockwise from top left:
Top Left: The sillhouette, 1stworlddog.com
Top center: Sunrise on the turkey run, lingeringvisions.wordpress.com
Top Right: Wiccan woman, 2catsandacattledog.com
Bottom Right: Half a view, completelydisappear.wordpress.com
Bottom center: Coins, Ink on Paper, weliveinaflat.com
Everyone went outside for their photos this week! Or in my case, a representation of what we did outside :P
I had always thought that it is hard to capture scenery photos. If it was at a tourist spot, well then, there’s always some other tourist getting in the way and preventing you from a wide shot. You need to be there at the right time of day for the right light, stand at the right spot to get the perfect aspect and of course have the right equipment, if you are aiming to capture something that tells a story rather than what is that mess of green?? What was I looking at when I took it?
And yet, it is often the day-to-day scenes that feature most in our lives, that will give you a little bit on the detail and the context of the culture/environment that we grow up with and operated in. Whether we came from the city in a small island or live in wide open spaces in a country many times the size. Not the touristy places that we have been to all of one time. :P
So this week, as you know autumn comes to some friends like Dawn (Lingeringvisions) and I imagine, Meghan (2catsandacattledog) may be experiencing autumn over at her area as well? Meghan’s is an imaginative photo of a wiccan woman with a cauldron, and you have got to use your Harry Potter senses when you look at that one. Muggles may have some difficulty seeing it :P
Dawn’s picture is a well-composed one of an early morning Autumn road… sans tourist or other photo bombers ;P I would love to walk a long such a road not just for the sights but also for the temperature. It is always hot and wet in Singapore, and I imagine in Thailand as well.
The scenery over at Thailand is slightly different, Completelydisappear’s photo of the scenery comes from the different perspective from a boat, looking at the buildings on the river bank, silhouetted by the roof of the boat . Not so green and open, with a different vibe.
Over in sunny Australia, we see a silhouette of a different kind – Bodhi takes us back out to open, green spaces like Meghan and Down, but thinks you should look at his sillhouette instead ^ ^ Whether the silhouette is the subject, or frames the subject, it still adds an element of interest to the picture doesn’t it?
Last but not least, mine is a picture of something I put together to illustrate what Donna and I have been doing outdoors. A photo can show you what the outdoors look like, it can tell you a story of what we have been doing outdoors, on a boat or on a bike.
Go click on the links above because the photographers will have more detail what they did at the point of taking the picture, sharing a bit about themselves and their daily lives. It’s not the places that we have been to that define us as people, but what we see, think and feel everyday that makes us so. Thank you for sharing :)
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Nature
Apps used: Camera+, vine
While waiting for our lunch to be served, I took pictures of the fishes swimming by. Fishes aren’t choreographed to swim by and look orchestrated for the camera, so the first shot was the only good one that I liked in terms of balance and composition.
Heading into the dark side
Before you know it, we are at week 10. Here are
LAST WEEK’S ENTRIES: My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – WEEK 9 (16 – 23 Oct)
Pictures are cropped, please visit the original post (links below) to view the full pictures with the photographer’s original thoughts on them :)
Clockwise from top left:
Top Left: Afternoon siesta time!, weliveinaflat.com on Instagram
Top Right: It’s all about family, 1stworlddog.com
Bottom Right: Happy Birth Day 1 Year, completelydisappear.wordpress.com
Bottom Left: Sunset Walk, 2catsandacattledog.com
How many sleeping positions does a dog have? This week weliveinadog and 1srworlddog showcased just two of them. With a place to call their own, a dog’s life can be pretty carefree – eat, sleep, play – while the humans have to worry about time to go for walks, time to clean, whether the dog is safe at home/outside, time to train, time to do other human things like work, keeping up with friends, etc. Amidst all that rush and worry, a quick snap to crystallize the moment – Bodhi asleep with toddler, or Copper walking with his human in that sunset hour where the light is low and the shadows are long – perhaps will help us to remember and appreciate, what we are working so hard for… and what we savour in life.
And it’s not just the dogs in our life really. It is the little moments when we take the time to enjoy the world around us, such as food, such as keeping up the endeavour to post once a day for the year. Happy Blog Birthday again, completelydisappear. :D Thank you for celebrating with this challenge ;)
My Best Photo of the Week is not harping so much on technique or what state of the art equipment you have, although you could if that is what rocks your world. This week’s pictures, I do feel, showcases what this challenge tries to be about – looking through the numerous pictures that we took throughout the week and sharing the one that is most significant to us at that particular point in our lives. Thank you so much for sharing with us!
Please do visit and read more about each picture by clicking on the links above. The photographers have provided a little description of the pictures and why it is special for them :)
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Challenger’s Choice (Food)
Apps used: Camera+
The Ocean Restaurant, located in the S.E.A Aquarium at Resorts World Sentosa, gives diners a view of the aquarium along one length of its dining hall.
LAST WEEK’S ENTRIES: My Best Photo of the Week (MBPOTW) Challenge – WEEK 8 (09 – 16 Oct)
Pictures are cropped, please visit the original post (links below) to view the full pictures with the photographer’s original thoughts on them :)
Clockwise from top left:
Top Left: The changes of southerly, 1stworlddog.com
Top Right: Donna is off the best friend list, said hippo, weliveinaflat.com
Bottom Right: Candy, completelydisappear.wordpress.com
Bottom Left: Jumping in paws first, 2catsandacattledog.com
We had more pictures submissions for week7 than week8, but that’s fine because you can join whenever you like. Last week’s pictures are interesting.
1stworlddog and completelydisappear dabbled with image editing apps on their phone on their respective subjects and showed two very different results in terms of the tone and mood of the images.
2catsandacattledog and weliveinaflat explored pet portraiture from different ends of the animal :P Again two very different resulting images in terms of the overall mood and colour palette.
I do think that photography is a process. Through continuous experimentation, one may start to discover favourite angles, perspectives, apps and effects that over time become your personal style. Wherever you are on this photography journey, have fun :) When things get overwhelming, keep it simple. As 1stworlddog says in their latest entry: “It is family and simple things that matter.“
Please do visit and read more about each picture by clicking on the links above. The photographers have provided a little description of the pictures and why it is special for them :)
Blank walls. Patterned floor.
Phoneography Monday Challenge: Black and White
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed
Continuing last week’s coffee shop drinks photos, this week, let’s take a look at the interior decor of a place where these drinks are commonly enjoyed.
Food republic was the first food court in the country to open themed food courts. Subsequently, all the new food courts have caught on to the fad and come with their interiors designed according to the trends.
This photo was taken in one corner of the Malaysian Food Street at Resorts World, Sentosa, named so because the food court and food was planned to simulate that – old-school coffee shops/hawkers in Malaysia. In this case, I guess they were going for a 1960s-70s vibe. I didn’t like the tile floor in colour, but the pattern works for me in black and white :D
I was sitting at a table and simply shot upwards and downwards without moving from my seat.
