On a Wander

For one of our tasks we had to go on a 30 minute walk and take pictures. So here some of them are.

This one I focused on the water droplets on a blade of grass. I made sure that the background and foreground were out of focus so that it would not detract from the water.

I wanted to show the textures and shapes in the lichens on this branch of the tree. By putting the lichen in the centre of the picture and using flash, it has darkened the background to the point where you can't really make it out and so you focus on the lichen.

 These two are the same plant but I decided to see which would work better and give more impact. I think the bottom one works better as you can see more of the habitat the plant is in. Also the background is darker and I think this lends itself to the overall image.

I really like the colours in the ivy leaves at this time of year as they start off a lovely deep red with just the veins in green. The red fades as the leaves grow older and they are plain green.

This is a decaying puffball fungus that I thought looked really interesting as not many people take pictures of things when they are decaying and often they look really interesting.

The top one is an ivy flower and the bottom one is the seed head. They both have a drop of water on them and I think they work really well as a series.

This is another of my favourite images that I took. The image itself is very plain but I think that it is a very powerful image with just the branch through the middle and the drops of water on.

These two are of the same tree. The bottom showing the flowers properly. I really like the strong contrast between the pale flowers and the dark green of the plants they are resting against.