Fallen Bogenvilla Petals

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Posted for the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Delicate.

Also posted for Jude’s 2020 Photo Challenge #12, March’s theme / technique: Being creative with texture. This week’s assignment – Try to mix your texture with other colors and patterns.

An Agave’s Leaves

Jude, at Travel Words, is inviting us to look at Texture during the month of March. This first week, she asks us to “find something smooth, and get in close.” So here is an up close photo of the smooth leaves of a Swan’s Neck Agave plant.

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Posted for Jude’s 2020 Photo Challenge #9 March’s theme / technique: Being Creative With Texture.

Hands

Jude, over at Travel Words, has challenged us in February to focus on photography involving patterns. This last week in February she has asked us to use pattern as background for a more substantial subject. The challenge in composing the shot, of course, is to let the patterned background enhance the photo, rather than compete with it or overshadow it. Below is a photo of a friend knitting. I wanted to focus on her hands, with her shirt as the background pattern.

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Posted for Jude’s 2020 Photo Challenge #8: February’s theme / technique: Being Creative with Patterns. 

Nature’s Patterns #1

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This week’s assignment is to use a pattern as a background for a more substantial subject. Hopefully I have managed that with this macro. The bright red of the petals should not overtake the photo. They should instead, first catch the viewer’s attention, and then lead the eye inwards to the main (more substantial) photographic subject of the black and yellow center of the flower.

Posted for Jude’s 2020 Photo Challenge #8: February’s Theme/ Technique – Being Creative with Patterns.