Love the composition on day 3, it's one I've used myself a few times, but you'll always get the purists telling you it's wrong
. Breaking rules is what makes photography (and life?) interesting
i like the use of the negative space to the left. it looks to me as though your mum is concentrating very hard.
Excellent negative space! I really like this, and I love candid stuff!..
A nice start Toni, I espcialy like the sentiment of #1 and prefer Day 2's outtake. Have to say I don't think I could take a candid of a stranger from that close, although I don't mind a snipe from a distance
Thanks everyone! It's nice getting feedback, good or bad, so thank you for going to the effort of leaving some for me
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I had the idea for this last night. Out of no where, it came into my head and I set to work making the cranes.
I had never, not once, in my life made an origami crane... I'm quite artistic and creative but things like origami have never been one of my strong points; it's too small and fiddly. I have enough of a time of it making those small paper stars (they featured in our wedding; a lot of those were made!). But I done it, eventually.
And I'm very, very happy with how this turned out.
The Crane may conceivably be the oldest bird on earth; there is fossil proof that they existed over 60 million years ago. Greek and Roman myth tended to portray the dance of cranes as a love of joy and a celebration of life. The crane was usually considered to be a bird of Apollo, the sun god, who heralded in Spring and light. Throughout all of Asia, the crane has been a symbol of happiness and eternal youth. In Japanese, Chinese, and Korean tradition, cranes stand for good fortune and longevity because of its fabled life span of a thousand years. Existing in fifteen species which inhabit five continents, the most majestic is the Japanese Crane which stands almost five feet tall with its wing span of more than six feet and its white body capped with its red crown. The Japanese refer to the crane as the bird of happiness; the Chinese as heavenly crane believing they were symbols of wisdom. The powerful wings of the crane were believed to be able to convey souls up to paradise and to carry people to higher levels of spiritual enlightenment. Over time, the crane has also evolved as a favorite subject of the tradition of paper folding origami. It is said that a thousand folded cranes, one for each year of its life, makes a wish come true.
Once I knew I'd got todays shot, I continued playing a bit and broke out the Lensbaby Muse. I'm still very, very rusty with this but I like to think I'm getting somewhere... and I like the results!