Walking around Lady Bird Lake recently, we (my hiking group) passed a couple of wildflower pastures. One had several of these blooming plants. After I got home, it took me a few minutes to find it online: Basket Flower, Centaurea americana.
The object of this photography session was to get a moving object in focus while blurring the background. I’m still working on it. Even so, I like the way some of the wheels appeared, as well as some of the backgrounds.
Assignment: Pick a vantage point (with a one-step radius), stay there for at least an hour, and photograph. Find or make interesting views out of ordinary or usually-ignored items.
I took close to 100 photographs and decided 6 were good enough to keep (with one being the photograph of my tripod to show my vantage point).
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This is where I stood.
Weeds with yellow flowers, panned.
The side vent of the grill.
Where the driveway segments meet.
A composite montage of sunflowers and the hurricane fence.
A lily pad with rain drops. The yellow lily is in a plastic barrel and was still closed at that time of the morning.
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is in Belton, Texas. Our urban hike crossed through the campus.
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
Photo copyright Sarah Potter
Unfinished Business
The desk. It was still there after all these years. The young girl who had sat for hours at it spilling out her heart, it was that Louise who looked at the desk through adult eyes as though time had stood still, commanding her to return.
Even her jar was still there. She remembered a menagerie of pens standing in it, each one waiting to be chosen, eager to create words that created sentences that created paragraphs, gushing out pages at a time. Oh, yes, Louise had a lot of unfinished business to attend to, now that she was back.
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