More Red...

Well I did it again. That thinking out loud stuff that tends to get me in trouble. I know the vast majority of you won't join in on this latest challenge. Even the mere mention of the word "challenge" has you all throwing up your hands and yelling not me, don't pick me.

I want to assure you all that nothing is mandatory on here and I won't be offended. I am just challenging myself more than anything to not get complacent in my blogging and with this next set of 30 days I am forcing myself to pick up my camera more and become more use to it and it's inner workings. I have to confess I have  been extremely lazy and haven't really done much with it except to point and shoot and then become disappointed when my pics don't come out. I expect things to be easier than they are.

Today was no exception when I stepped outside with camera in hand and tried to snap a few shots.

First and foremost, take the lens cap off before turning on the camera. I tend to forget this step... a lot.

Secondly, it's not the camera's fault if everything appears blurry. This will happen when you step out from the air conditioning into sauna like conditions. Next note to self, check for fogged up lens before snapping half a dozen pics and wondering why the world is hazy, but evidently not as hazy as you.

I didn't wander far in my picture taking today. It's humid and heavy with dew outside. It's miserable and now as I am ready to write this blog, the sun is starting to peek out. Oh well, there is always tomorrow, and the next day, and the next 28 days after that.

I snapped quite a few pics and out of those 40+pics I only liked two of them. So I am posting the better of the two. I liked how the sprig or branch of the barberry bush rested against the railing on the deck. The soft against the hard, the smooth against the rough, the natural against the man made.

I have some amazing multiply friends that are photographers. I know that my feeble attempts are not even going to come close to their work. I know that they have a camera in their hands all the time and most likely the last thing they want to do is take more pics.

I am hoping they do though. Just one or two, now and then to keep me inspired and thinking that maybe I will one day come close in at least a few of my efforts of something worth keeping. Something that captures not just the subject, but imagination as well.

 

29 more pics to go...