Colour Leaves at in-law's backyard - NEX-5N & Kern-Paillard Switar 50mm f1.4. Click for larger.
Monday, October 8, 2012
My In-Law's Backyard
It's unbelievable how many hours I have spent in my in-law's backyard taking pictures over the last 15 years or so. Considering that it does not even have a garden, what makes it so attractive to me? Boredom, really. We visit the in-laws once a week on the weekends, with very little interruption. Most days, my kids can hang out with their many cousins, and I usually just go out and take pictures, and in the backyard I spent countless hours, taking mostly close-up pictures of whatever look interesting. I actually was thinking about making a photobook with the many pictures I took there. Interestingly, I never get bored doing it. There is always something that I can find worth photographying.
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you're a doting dad and a nice relative! you just gave me an idea what to do during visits to in-laws...
ReplyDeleteThanks Emmanuel! Never leave home without the camera :)
Deletehi! when's your lenses book coming out? maybe another book in the making: backyard photography! most of the time, the everyday, common things photographed in a creative way presents drama most people (including myself) overlook.
ReplyDeleteI have done choosing the pictures. The book will end up with only cine, enlarging, projection, and a few DIY lenses, and it will be 120 pages. I have left out the "normal" lenses for another project. I am now writing captions for the lenses/pictures. Hopefully it will be done in a couple of weeks. As for the backyard book, I don't think it will be interesting. Too many pictures of the same subject, though lighting is different, but not interesting enough for a book.
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