Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
After several weeks without a haircut, the person in the mirror looking back is mostly a stranger to me. Add in the distortion caused by the iPhone 11 Pro front camera and I really look strange.
theonlyd800inthehameau offers us a mystery of a phrase on a painted shopfront that refers to a place that may not exist.
Amy has packed up and is moving to a new place.
Submitted for my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.
It seems that for all participants, including myself, serenity is found in the outdoors. For the theonlyD800inthehameau is just a look over the wall of his backyard. For Amy, a walk is all she needs to find serenity. I could easily find serenity in the spaces they photographed.
Today, Bhavna, Kiran and I went for a walk around the Aunt Molly section of the St. Michael's Farm Preserve Trail in Hopewell Township which is a 15-minute drive from home. The ground was not as wet and muddy as we had expected. Bhavna marvelled at how much the vegetation had grown, changing the look and the experience of the woods. We saw many new wildflowers I had not seen before.
Submitted for my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.
I love watching clouds. Sometimes I think I photograph landscapes because of the clouds. It seems all challenge participants decided to look to the sky this week. I like Amy's interpretation of this week's theme. TheOnlyD800inthehameau looked to the skies for drama finding a moody cloud formation.
I vaguely understood the term "negative space", thinking it was the "blank areas" of an image, Wikipedia informed me further.
Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.
Ok. Wait. What? "Negative space" can be the "real" subject of an image? I hadn't captured anything like this. I had three pictures from the week, which I thought represented my interpretation of "negative space". But which to choose for the challenge. The boring one of a water bottle or the more interesting one of my wife? Maybe I'm cheating a little, but I am submitting both. I think the image of the botted water is closer to the description from Wikipedia. Still, I think the portrait of my wife, giving me her best "do I have to do this" look is more interesting.
I captured my choices for the weekly challenge using the native iOS camera app. The app has a portrait mode which is sometimes doesn't get it right. It uses multiple back cameras on the iPhone 11 Pro including the 6mm f/2 (which Apple calls the Telephoto lens due to its 51mm full-frame field of view) and the 4.25mm ƒ/1.8 (26mm FF). Together with software algorithms, a "bokeh" effect is achieved. I used Kevin Mullin's "Base Film" and "Newspaper" black and white preset.
What do you think?
Submitted for my 52 Week Smartphone Challenge.
