I didn't use to celebrate Halloween (or any other cultural celebration for that matter, but that's a topic outside of this blog's goals).
What I can say, however, is that my wife brought her favorite cultural celebrations, one of them being Halloween. Some of ours years together, we dress up and play spooky, creepy roles and take photo shoots from which I displayed my own creepy self here.
If you suffer extreme arachnophobia, you may not wish to see cobwebs. This is probably only a mild trigger warning to most of you, but I thought it best to warn of this content.
I continue this Halloween throwback series with a few decorations, and as I hope to get better and more recent ones to offer in a few days, I title the entry accordingly.
It's Halloween season, and with it, people of all ages celebrate Life by treat or treating, getting dressed-up/ disguised, and visit cemeteries where their family members have been buried.
For me, cemeteries are places to visit for architectural beauties as well as decrepit, shabby tombs have fallen pray to the damage of time - or occasionally to vandalism.
It's still Halloween season, and for this, I'd like to continue with a series of creepy photos, taken usually in previous years' Halloweens, but not always.
This is the second part of the color mood : whites, started a couple days ago.
You'll see statues, nature (butterfly, flowers), and snowy landscapes.
Trigger Warning : If you suffer from a severe enough arachnophobia that you cannot look at photos, you shouldn't click on the read more button hereafter, as I separated all my phots of them so they don't appear among other photos in my various posts, and thus offer a post to showcase for those who are okay.
My wife suggested gathering photos of objects with the predominant color white and post an entry as if it were a mood board, so here I am, with a photo album with this color as the main focus in all objects.
I took some of these shots while travelling, either for my past work or for leisure ; I also propose white flowers, landscapes with snow, architecture and statues - the latter are a bit off-white, or almost cream, hence the more generic name of "whites", including variants that are close enough to pass.
You may have noticed, I love to take nature photos! You saw butterflies, birds, and now I start a new series, dedicated to flowers!
Even when I didn't have my macro attachement, most cameras allow macro mode to shoot these subjects. My current camera allows me to get as close as 1 CM in super-macro mode, whilst macro mode allows 10CM, which was the same for my previous camera.
Probably my favorite subject in photography, are butterflies (alongside moths). They are beautiful, colorful, not too small to always need my macro attachment on the ready (though it can help a lot), butterfly seasons are my favorite.
I say seasons, because where I live, butterflies have 2 or 3 generations : in spring, summer and autumn. In all my winters, I've seen butterflies very rarely, and only due to global warming which gave us a few very mild, and quite warm winters.
In my first years as a photographer, I didn't edit any photo. In my desire to show the real views I had through a documentary styled photography, I thought it was an unnecessary process which would alter my results and thus create a lie.
However, my wife pointed out that all photographers do it and that my photos usually had an unsophisticated look to them, so after further research, I decided to compromise and started editing, but not too much, to preserve a documentary aspect while also rendering my photos more interesting to look at.
As promised, I want to share with you some of my good bird photos. It's not always easy to get close enough to have them in fullest possible screen, so I have to zoom and then in post-production, edit levels, contrast, saturation, brightness, and crop the image to focus as much as I can on my bird subjects.
As an introvert child, I preferred to withdraw from games with class mates during playtime, and, without permission, would leave school premises. I discovered that I loved observing birds, so one day after winning a scratch lottery ticket, I bought binoculars so I could watch them from farther away.
