September Best of

Steps from Colored Smoke

I so wish I could claim tho photograph as one of my best of September, but sadly I cannot.  This was shot by one of my students parents ( an elementary teacher here) during an Army training graduation.  I was blown away the second I saw this image-everything is going for it-a point of interest, strong color, composition, framing and a strong strong subject (and secondary subject).  An award winner in my judgement anyway.

So even though this post is about our best of, I had to upload this image just to share it with others......photographs like this don't happen everyday.

Shadows

I had given my students a word to use as a theme over the past weekend for their shooting assignment-"Shadows."  When I make an assignment like this, I always keep it open to their interpretation, hoping they'll come up with something less obvious or literal.  When someone does, it's more fun for me as a their teacher to see their creativity.  As usual, some didn't start the assignment until after downloads were due, but others did have some good examples and experimented with light and shadow-great to see.  Since this was all on my mind, this morning I decided to pull out a photo from last winter that really had little to do with nature and everything to do with shadow and composition.  This was one of my favorites from that morning.