My husband took these stunning photo of a Swallowtail Butterfly quite a while ago. I was tempted to crop the photos to create a cryptic photo, but I like the photos too much as they are!
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- Swallowtail Butterfly
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- Stunning Swallowtail Butterfly
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- Swallowtail Butterfly
Here’s the Weekly Photo Challenge details;
This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Quintin Lake of Quintin Lake Architectural Photography. Read on for more about this week’s theme and his photography tips!
Geometry. This challenge is about the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world. Many photographs of any genre have an underlying sense of geometry, but I often like to make this the main subject of my work. I think it’s the most important aspect of a photograph’s success. This could be the patterns of the natural world up close and personal, or the rhythm of your local buildings. The above photograph, “Positive Negative,” depicts the Paula Rego Museum in Lisbon where the sky created an equally strong element of the composition as the building. The image has a totemic quality, softened by the passing cloud. I had waited for this cloud to move into the perfect position within the frame. The colour, light, and form of the image emphasize this geometry.
Share a photo that means GEOMETRY to you!
Tip: Once you have found a good subject that contains an interesting geometry, try to crop tightly into the subject to make an unexpected composition. Your goal should be to create an abstract composition so the image is more about underlying shapes than a literal representation of the subject matter itself — by doing this you create art rather than a snapshot.
I’m Quintin Lake, an award-winning architectural and fine art photographer based in Cheltenham, UK. I’m a former architect and author of Drawing Parallels: Architecture Observed. Visit my blog to share my enthusiasm for architectural photography.
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I love your butterflies, am a huge fan. Thanks for this.
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No worries! I love them too 🙂
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Nice entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge !!!
You can see mine here : http://sebastienouvryphotographies.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/253365-2-novembre-2012-p-l/
See you
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All be over later! 🙂
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I like yours… but i can’t find the ‘like’ button…. have you disabled it?
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Barbara, why not make a copy of one of those photos and then crop it as Quintin Lake suggests? I look forward to the results later in the week.
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Good idea! Will have a go later 🙂
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What a great interpretation.
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Thank you! 🙂
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Great macro photography. You and Peter might both be interested in looking at this video about the “butterfly alphabet”. I bought one of these and had it framed for Patty’s birthday many years ago.
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Sorry. Forgot to give you the link for the video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ViSxg9HRcQ
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I spent ages trying to find it! That is really amazing!
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