My Photo Scavenger Hunt
The assignment was to take pictures of something colorful, something small, something important in nature, something gross and something camouflage.Something Colorful....
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| Maple tree buds without editing |
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I edited this picture by enhancing it in iPhoto. I increased the sharpness and decreased the shadows. I took two colorful pictures because I am not sure which photo I prefer.
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| Photo 2 of Maple Buds without editing |
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On this photo I cropped using the rule of thirds. I also enhanced it in iPhoto by reducing shadows and increasing sharpness. I go back in forth on if the background is too distracting. What are your thoughts?Something Small...
On my journey to find something small, I enlisted the help of Carson, our neighbor, and my son Will. Of course, my two little minions were able to find something so minuscule. They found a little, red insect that I would have definitely overlooked.
As far as editing rules I uses the "rule of thirds" and cropped the picture so the object of interest was not in the middle. I also used size relationship. The boys' fingers lets the audience gauge the size of the object. I also lightened the photo.
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This picture is the unedited version.Something Important in Nature..“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” 
The beginning of spring. A time of the year the gives rebirth to our beautiful nature. Nothing gets me more excited after a long, cold, snowy winter then seeing a little green pop out from underneath the dreadful, brown, winter ground. Spring is the signal of a new beginning for nature. The plants, trees and animals come out from their long winter slumber.
Something Gross, EWWWW.... Finding something gross was more of a challenge. I looked and looked. I couldn't find anything too disgusting. My minions were still hard at work helping me find something gross. They had plenty of ideas, boogers, trash, a dead worm that turned out to be a rusty, bent nail, but nothing stood out. I finally found these dead, contorted roots. The shaped stood out to me. It reminded me of something that would have grown and twisted around a poor maiden in a fairy tale. Something Camouflaged....
There is a reason why creatures have the ability to camouflage and one of them is to hide from me. I surveyed my yard and neighborhood for those organisms that like to hide from plain view. I finally had to think like one. Where would I hide. Under a rock of course! My little bug finding son always knows where to find them, so sometimes thinking like a 5 year old boy is a good thing. Under the pavers around the mailbox is where I find the gold! Pillbugs (a.k.a. The Roly Poly)!
Nature always seems to amaze me. I think about the ways organisms have adapted to their surrounding for purpose of survival.
If you are ever bored or just need a challenge, look up camouflaged animals on the internet. It's a good time!
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