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Not all photos have to be masterpieces

Some thing I have been thinking about recently is what makes a good photo. Is it one that is technically perfect, well composed, perfectly focused, interesting subject matter, or is it one that makes you remember the day. When I first got serious about taking photos I used to smugly think that my parents were hopeless at taking photos and my photos were so much better. But I was wrong. For two years I took beautiful portrait style photos of my kids and lovely landscape photos of the places we visited, but never anything connecting the two. My kids aren't going to remember that that lovely close up portrait was taken on a walk to Shelley Beach, that it was a beautiful summer afternoon. I have realised that these sort of photos definitely have there place and I do like to strive to take better photos, but the photos that my kids are going to love when they are older are the ones like this one. Yes its blurry and grainy, but I hope it reminds then of the day when they washed the car all by themselves just so that they could have a water fight afterwards.

Fabulous skies

Today we had the most fabulous blue skies and amazing cloud formations, well for half the day anyway, then it clouded over completely.

Factories - Fonterra (Dennington) and Murray Goulburn(Koroit)

I think I might of added a bit too much grain to these ones.

a bit of fun with photoshop

This is the main street of town. I thought I would replace the T&G building with the Port fairy lighthouse. Now I'm thinking I might turn the street into sea. Humm, stay tuned.

Factories - Murray Goulburn

I have decided to do a series of photos of the local factories. Why you might ask, well I find them really interesting. Apparently other people don't, but hey they are my photos so i don't care. Actually I'm just being pig headed and want to prove the point that boring subjects can make interesting photos. Anyway, this is the Murray Goulburn Milk Processing plant at Koroit. I took this photo at about 8:30 at night. I really wanted to capture the plumes of smoke. i think i might try it again earlier in the night when there is still some blue in the sky. I desaturated the photo, and added some a little noise.

Teenagers

What happens to kids as they approach the teenage years? My girl is about to turn eleven and she has the most amazing mood swings. One minute she is happy and really loving, the next she is crying and then cranky. I love her dearly, but how are we going to get through 5 years of this. Please tell me it isn't too bad. Anyway tonight I made this image to represent all the emotions swirling around her. It did it really quickly, but I was pretty happy with how it turned out. It is just a photo of her overlaid over a photo of a tubular park slide.