Here we are on the downhill slide of 2018, and I'm yet to do a post! Well, not for this year anyway.... I'm just going to flick stuff in here every now and then, just to show a positive attempt at keeping up! Haha........ yeah right! We'll give it a crack.
So, photography has become more of a passion for me over the past few years. I've always liked it, but times change and the passion is a lot stronger now. The digital era has made a huge difference to this I guess, certainly a lot less pressure on that one perfect snap. Mind you, it also means you {me} end up taking a gazillion photos to get just ten! That Continuous Frame button is just deadly.
So the boys are still playing soccer, and I am still playing Sideline Paparazzi, {new nickname from the Hollywood spectator section}. I seem to have surpassed the days of sitting in the car with camera and notepad, whilst trying to do a write up that never got submitted to the local paper (write ups that were submitted to the local paper that were not published). Well, then it all went In Your Face, and we {as a soccer community} found that it was much easier to just upload a bit of a game brief and some photos to the Club's Facebook page. So that's what we did.
As the time went by I was getting less impressed with my photos, more so with the capabilities of my zoom lens. I decided to take myself over to Camera House to grab another battery, and came home with a new 18-400mm lens!! Woo Hoo, Soooo impressed. I have to say, I did not expect the difference this has made to my photos to be so obvious. The mere depth of field/detail is awesome. And so here I am, clicking away each Sunday for hours on end trying to that elusive photo of my boys, and a gazillion others in varying degrees of exotic bird dance stances. This last bit I'm getting really good at haha..
You should always try to put a little bit of yourself into your creativeness, whether it's a style, object etc. I like to include the surroundings, much to number 1 son's frustrations. A bird, a plane, a bee, a tree, a dog, the spectators, the hills, the storms, the frost and the moon, just to name a few. It's my day also, and these are things that bring a bit of balance to what I enjoy as well.
Symbolic "S". The background cloud tinted by the sunset, at Savoy Park
The first of the night game photos of the moon.
Then second as the sun is setting.
Check out the blue background, almost hitting full darkness. The moon really jumps out here.
This one was taken just a few days ago. I couldn't believe that I spotted him, just sitting there in the lower branches of the bushy tree. He was still there when I left work to go home, but alas was gone the next morning.
So that's my start to updating my 2018. Will have to start digging out a few more!
