For this year I am starting a new personal project which I am calling #5from7photo. Rather that do a ‘365’ exercise where you take and show a photo each day of the year, for this project I intend to show a selection of 5 photos taken, or processed, in the previous week. For some of the ‘365’ projects I have seen, many of the photos shown seem to have been taken out of desperation to get something. With my approach I can make a selection that enables more creativity or interest.
This means I can show 5 photos of the same subject on the same day, or 5 different subjects on different days – it all depends on what is happening and my reaction to it at the time. So, to start, I am showing some of the snow that we have had this week:
On Monday we woke up to about 3 inches of snow. As it was fresh and not icy we went for a walk along a nearby lane into the countryside. This is a panorama stitched from 3 images. Each image was taken holding the camera upside down (so I could see the screen) above my head (so as to get above the hedge).
This next one was taken a little further along the lane looking back towards the estate where I live – somewhere to the left of centre! This is a ‘letterbox’ crop rather than a panorama.
Before we left for the walk I took some photos of the snow in the garden and of the trees at the back of the garden:
This view below is of the bottom corner of our garden taken as a record shot. I include it here as it not only shows the snow in the garden but allows you to see the trees that I frequently photograph from the garden. I usually set up my tripod in the corner behind the trellis work.
This final image is of the same stump shown earlier but at dusk on New Years Eve – the colours were muted but attractive with the low layer of mist:
Now to see what the coming week holds…