Friday, September 13, 2013

Focus on: Motion!

Motion and the suggestion of motion.


This week's Focus on Life assignment sent by Sally Russick of The Studio Sublime is "In Motion." Now - we are dealing with still photography here. Do you see the challenge? Yeah, thought you would!

In trying to meet this challenge, I was torn between taking it literally - using my camera to stop motion, or to try and suggest motion....somehow. Unhelpfully, my camera battery died in the middle of a walk where I thought I might capture something cool. 

So, back to the archives, where I remembered that I had some cool series shots of a Great Blue Heron that are from last year. And some more recent shots of Canada Geese at the local small airport. And a Squirrel, just cuz they're cute. And PicMonkey's collage feature was just made for this..... 






Now let's see how the others handled this challenge.....


13 comments:

  1. LOVELY pictures! thanks for sharing those

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  2. Great job of capturing motion and you are right, the heron collage is really cool. That little squirrel cracked me up, standing at attention in the road!

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  3. I love herons. We had a nesting pair this year and watching them raise their young was fascinating.

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  4. Great photos! I don't know why but I always have to giggle when I see a squirrel crossing the road. The herrons are lovely.

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  5. I love herons - there's something magical about them...
    And squirrels are always cute :)
    Great photos!

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  6. Yep I used picmonkey too! And that squirrel is cute!

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  7. That squirrel is cute!! Love the herons and the geese, too - great capture of motion!

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  8. About that squirrel - Look up in the upper left corner of the first picture, and you will see a blurry glimpse of the deer I was trying to take a picture of!

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  9. What a great idea, Beti! One of those...wish I'd thought of that...kind of things. :-) Love the heron in particular; you could almost make one of those "flip books" of his pictures. I'm dating myself, aren't I??!

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  10. You got some great shots there Beti!

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  11. Great pictures Beti, I love the blue heron. And I really like the squirrel. We have them in Fl, and my husband hates them....I too, think they are cute....Thanks for posting.

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  12. The blue heron is such a gorgeous creature! but that squirrel steals the show :) Thanks for sharing

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  13. Great shots! I do love your squirrel though. Those little guys are fast.

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