The word was “wild” so of course I went out into nature looking for something “wild” to photograph. I cam across a bunch of trees with red berries on them, so I basically stuff my camera in and took a bunch of pictures. I think the bright red color against the stark branches and the clutter of all the branches make this photo pretty “wild.”
Yes, this picture is from the same pond where I took last week’s picture. But I couldn’t resist taking more pictures of it and I thought that this was a great picture for the word “dry”! It’s crazy to think of a pond as “dry,” the winter snow dried up all the reeds. I really like this because even though the reeds are in water, they’re still all dried up.
I LOVE taking pictures in the snow. It makes everything look really different and interesting. I took a “photo expedition” walk outside in the snow and I came across the frozen-over pond. The colors in the frozen water looked super-weird and the little piles of snow around all the dried up plants really interested me. It’s funny how changes in weather can make everything look so unfamiliar…
“Soft is” kind of a hard word to take a photo of. I tried taking pictures of a bunch of my scarves piled up together, my stuffed animals, my bed, but none of the photos really looked soft. Then while we were taking a walk during the blizzard, I took a picture of my boyfriend walking across a snow covered field to his townhouse. The falling snow blurred everything, especially the town houses in the background, and I thought this is it– soft.
I visited my undergrad college this weekend in southern Maryland. They got about two feet of snow. I was basically snowed in on Saturday, so I went around campus taking pictures. St. Mary’s College is super-beautiful in general, but when it snows, it’s nothing short of gorgeous. This is a small foot bridge over a pond connecting the townhouses to Admissions Field. This picture made me think of balance because of the composition of the photo and the nature of the bridge.
So I got the word “repulsion” and I immediately started taking pictures of trash, cigarette butts, chewed up gum– basically gross things. I even went outside looking under rocks for worms and I wondered why I couldn’t find any. Then I realized, oh yeah, it’s effing winter.
So then I decided to look my word up. According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, repulsion is the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed, the action of repelling : the force with which bodies, particles, or like forces repel one another, a feeling of aversion : repugnance. That made me think about repulsion less in terms of “ew gross” and more in terms of something that makes one jump back.
Then while I was making grilled cheese, I saw a bug crawling around in my kitchen. I ran to grab my camera, and I spent the next half hour taking pictures of the bug. Then I realized I had completely burnt my grilled cheese and almost set my house on fire.
Anywho,
Seeing the image of a bug can be slightly repulsive, but seeing it all up close and blown up like that starltes me every time I see the picture, and I’m the one who took it! I also think there’s something about the positioning of the bug facing down– I tried flipping the image around different ways, but they didn’t have the same effect as this where the bug looks like it’s coming down on you.
Judy Sellner 