Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #349 – The first thing I thought when I saw this photo

Published on by Yinglan

Happy Sunday! Tina is the lovely hostess for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and she is challenging us to write the first thing that came to mind when I saw the photo.

I took this photo in the garden exactly a week ago. There was a wind advisory in my area that day – 15-20 mile/hour wind with gusts up to 50 mph. I don’t know why I would take choose to take close-ups of this particular flower with my macro lens, which required manual focus. Even with my best effort at focusing on the flower, the photo still came out blurry. So I must ask myself, What the hell were you thinking?

I believe there’s a great story to be told here. This was at the Tulips Festival back in April. I was by the koi pond when this caught my eye. The photos read in my mind as a giant red banner, “Busted!”

In the goose’s mind, it’s probably cheering, “You can do it! You can do it!” In my mind, I saw a whole scene play out between the goose checking it surrounding to make sure no one was watching and then going for it. What do you see?

This is the same statue, just during different times of the year – spring and winter. Does it make you wonder why she’s there? I like to call her, “Girl frozen in time.” When I first saw her, I wondered about her significance to this place. Why’s she here? A step away from the water, yet never gets to feel the water touch her skin. It made me wonder if she saw Medusa in the water and turned to stone.

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  3. I like your post and had to smile with the what the heck were you thinking – because that was my fav photo of the day because it had a softness and such a subtle color – and the mood was one that we could see why you were called to take the photo – and it reminded me that we do not always need to most detailed and powerfully colored photo – because imagining you lured by the beauty and manually taking the shot was about presence and appreciating the simple and delicate beauty that stopped you

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    1. That flower was from some new seeds I sowed in February. I couldn’t remember what I sowed but this flower is definitely new to the garden this year. It’s a little different than the other flowers I’ve grown so far, so I must have a picture even though the wind was whipping the poor thing back and forth.

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