WeeklyPhotoProject2013

Well… I Thought it was a Plant

I had begun to see less and less well as I got closer to my eye surgery, but I was determined to get a photograph of a flower or plant for the week's theme. So I called into the local florist's shop and asked if I could photograph the flowers and plants. They were happy to oblige, saying that the flowers were in the cold room at the back, but the plants were in the front. I thought I would try the plants and was so delighted with the hanging spider plants that I spent my time photographing the little spider babies. They all looked so healthy and heavy with baby plantlets that, when my phone rang and I had to get on my way, I decided not to bother with the flowers but to go with one of these photographs.

It was not until I got home and got these onto the computer that I saw that…. they were not real. They are fabric. I am just so glad that I didn't buy one, which I had been tempted to do. Or comment on how easy they were to care for… which I might have done. :-/

Hopefully I will be seeing much better, very soon, now that my surgery is done. Time will tell. 😀

#WeeklyPhotoProject2013 +Weekly Photo Project 2013 curated by +Andrew Willard , +Iain Harley and  +Tiina Niskanen
Week 48: Flowers or Plants

Negative Space

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The theme of this week's Weekly Photo Project (for those who don't know) is Negative Space – in the photographic principle sense, or however you want to interpret it.

I took this after leaving the peace of the wetlands habitat where I was photographing the mallard. I had been looking for some negative space in that environment, but all I found was positive space everywhere I looked. Then I came up the hill towards the car and saw this. It seemed as negative a space as I had come across that day. But of course it has the negative space above it, photographically speaking. And that does serve as a foil to the complication and intricacies involved in the subject of the building and title…. 

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Week 39: Negative Space

Canning, Nova Scotia, Seen From the Banks of the Habitant River

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My (Current) HomeTown. Can you imagine this as being a busy shipbuilding hub? The river you see here was the site of a major shipyard. The wikipedia entry describes the town as "much diminished in importance in recent years". I suspect the writer was perfecting his use of understatement in that sentence.  As I was taking these photographs, there were birds walking on the green algae growth on the surface of the river. 

1866 July – Schooner Escape

"When fire swept Canning's main street in July 1866, a small schooner was under construction on the stocks in the Bigelow shipyard. The wooden ship was ready for launching except for her spars, rigging, and sails. As the fire drew near, Ebenezer Bigelow saw the tide was high, and made a snap decision to launch immediately. Quickly, a crowd of people clambered on the vessel's deck, seeking to escape the flames. Later, the vessel would be named Escape. In 1874 Escape's luck ran out. She was lost with all on board near Digby Gut, Nova Scotia.
— Source: Stanley Spicer, in The Canning Gazette, Issue #127, July 1998"

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Week 32: My Hometown

Also for My Town Tuesday ~ #mytowntuesday   local
Curator(s): +Melanie Kintz +Jamie Furlong 
G+ Page : +My Town Tuesday 
#mytowntuesday +My Town Tuesday by +Melanie Kintz +Jamie Furlong
and 
Coastal Thursday  curated by  +David Polzine +Jon Kahn #CoastalThursday +Coastal Thursday
FlowingWaterFriday  curated by  +Rolf Hicker +Kate Church #FlowingWaterFriday +FlowingWaterFriday
HQSP Landscape  curated by  +Delcour Eric +***** #hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape
Landscape Photography  curated by  +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +Ben T #LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography
Landscape Photos  curated by  +Robert SKREINER +Landscape Photos
#novascotia   #canada  

Sunset at the Shore in Silhouette

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After taking the photograph I posted the other day, on that same evening at the shore, I started back up the beach and saw my dear husband, Steven sitting on the bench, waiting patiently for me. He was silhouetted against the sky with the setting sun behind him. I hadn't even realized that this would be the theme for this week as I have been rather out of things. But it fits for my submission.

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Week 31: Silhouette
and
Sea Tuesday  curated by  +Julia Anna Gospodarou #SeaTuesday +Sea Tuesday
Sea- & Lakescape Photos  curated by  +Robert SKREINER +Sea- & Lakescape Photos