Simple Twist

The first summer after I got my camera, I had a lot of fun taking picture. Sometimes, they are very artistic and pretty and other times they looked like a high school girl was just goofing around a fancy camera.

This photo I was sort of just testing out angles and perspectives. As I was walking through my back yard, I was playing “Ansel Adams” (a famous landscape photographer) and taking pictures of trees, and plants, and birds, etc. This is one of the largest trees in my back yard. It is the tree that I usually just relax under and read, doodle, or (obviously) take pictures. I know that everyone see’s trees basically everywhere they go. 

They are usually the first things that new photo students want to take a picture of, and quickly become the least interesting things to view. So, with that in mind, I decided to take a different view on it. When I was bored one day I was playing around with hues on a photo editing website. Hue, if you do not know, is simply the color or shade that something is. Instead of just a normal, boring, plain tree, I took a more fantastical lens on this photograph. By making the leaves purple combined with the angle it was taken at, I think it makes a boring and common subject look a little more exciting.

Honestly, there is not a theme, moral, or message I can even make up for this photo. I mean, I guess I can say that it should make you look harder to find beauty in common nature, but it doesn’t even do that. I just think it is a simple photograph and basically just fun to look at. It helps me to visualize some of the basic techniques when taking pictures, specifically keeping in mind angles and composition.