#icm photo of a rowing crew on the River Thames at Strand on the Green - using the built in ND filter on the #Olympus Em1iii and the 12-100F4 lens.

ICM is far from my specialist subject but I think this gets an interesting balance between movement, abstraction and enough to see what's going on.
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Silent Sunday

Peonies are some of the loveliest of flowers and favourites of mine. They last such a short time, but are so sweet-smelling, so soft.

This was taken through a hole in a plastic bag, giving the soft focus effect. It was inspired by my participation in one of the most creative photographic mentorships I've ever experienced, in #GooglePlus

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Flower #SoftFocus #Canon #Peony #FloralFriday #Friday #EllieKPosts #SilentSunday #Blur #IntentionalBlur #insects

Cafe dream

Remembering when a trip to a cafe was taken for granted. This now is like a dream to me.

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Stained glass window, Milan Cathedral.

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Wind painting

An occasional series

From time to time my fancy's taken by some particular visual tangent or offshoot from photorealistic photography (please don't count the pleonasms and redundancies) using a photographic image as a starting point.

One of these is reflections on water—shapes, colours, patterns;
another is painting with the wind, visualizing the invisible.

I won't dump all of these at once, I'll just add them to the mix with the hashtag #WindPainting (assuming I remember).

This first is actually very close to plain photography, being basically just a long exposure shot with a little artistic post-processing, but the thing that delighted me was the silver trails left by the sun glinting on the gum leaves, and in some cases the sinusoidal patterns they left as individual leaves twisted as they blew back and forth.

Other wind paintings are much further from straight photography.

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