Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

17 Aug 2014 15 Comments

by The Amateur Camera in It's all about the sea, Nature, Weekly Photo Challenge Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

This week’s photo challenge is silhouette.  The photo’s below were all taken locally to me recently… 

Evening meander on the sea
A fisherman sorting out his nets and ropes
Evening boating bliss!
Heading home after an afternoon of fishing
This guy was on a surfboard paddling out to his boat!
This was taken on the summer solstice evening
Soaring with the suns rays

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

23 Mar 2014 20 Comments

by The Amateur Camera in Weekly Photo Challenge Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This weeks photo challenge is reflections…

This boat was obviously on someone’s bucket list!
Reflections of rowing boats as the sun goes down
Reflection of the lens cap in my camera lens!
Boat and tree reflections
Tree reflections… love weeping willows!
More tree reflections!
Calypso reflection!
Elegant swan in Hyde Park, London
Mutley reflection!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: One

23 Dec 2013 19 Comments

by The Amateur Camera in Weekly Photo Challenge Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

This shot was taken in Mevagissey, Cornwall.  I was meandering along the harbour and crouched down to take a photo of the rowing boat with all the other boats and cottages providing the wonderfully colourful background and reflections in the water when the Seagull landed and posed for me!  So this is my One for this weeks challenge…

Fishing boats and Seagulls... typically Mevagissey!

Fishing boats and Seagulls… typically Mevagissey!

Quotes that speak to my soul…

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
What you have caught on film is captured forever...
it remembers little things,
long after you have forgotten everything." - Aaron Siskind

"You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes." - Ernst Haas

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by Dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs

“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank

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