Nice choice. Busy is a pretty cool idea, but like lost or discarded items, too. Cemetary, I could handle that if the weather holds up.

I'll be mulling this over for awhile.

Thanks for getting us off to a quick start.

Post it now and I can get started on other things I need to get done. Gives me some time.

Still Life photography is a grouping/placement of (usually) inanimate objects (cut flowers and fruit are not uncommon in a still life) the photographer puts together/arranges in harmony (for composition) and shoots. (with particular consideration to light/shadows, focus, color, contrast, etc..) Usually done indoors, but not always. The photographer has complete control of the shot because the photographer controls all aspects of the photo. (subject, placement, lighting, etc..)

I'm sure a still life can be created in a graveyard but Still Life isn't confined to the graveyard nor does it mean graveyard/cemetery shots.

Did that help?

He'll be still after your reply.

Sometimes my thoughts don't translate well.

the subject.


My first entry in the first photo contest was a cemetery shot. It was over processed to give it a sickly deathlike look.

This is a newer version of that shot.

How can you take a picture of something that's lost? Isn't that the definition? If it's lost, you can't see it?

I actually wanted to do a book of photographed roadside shoes. How do people lose shoes on the side of the road?

I seem to "find" lost shoes all the time.

It's my specialty.

Somewhere in Canada, on the way from Detroit to Niagara Falls there is a little pair of shoes that's been lying by the side of the road since 1949. Drop me a PM if you find them.

Adults' shoes, not so much. Especially lone shoes. It's always perplexed me, even to this day.

It would overload my brain.

Not sure of the road we were on but it seemed to be out in the middle of nowhere.

or shoe (or just whatever), someone has lost or left behind? That would be lost or discarded items. Other people's....not yours. Can be furniture someone throws out. Anything like that.

Sorry for my density. Too many Christmas cookies.

I'm going to New Orleans next week!!

NOLA and a new camera.
You are, I hope, going to be in heaven.

I'm there to hopefully get a job. But all work and no play...

Looking forward to your photos!

New Orleans has an undercurrent of the macabre. I've never been to a graveyard there, but I can only imagine how voodoo believers enter eternity.

Doesn't Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails have an old mausoleum door on his recording studio there?

I wanted cemeteries so I could experiment in B&W, but if you're going there, I'll take lost and discarded. At least there's lots of garbage around here. LOL.

And yes, I'll be in the perfect place. This is my first trip to New Orleans, but I actually won't have much free time...I'm there for interviews.

So I'll vote for close-ups now and vote for cemeteries when it comes around in October.

Old head stones are great. Especially the ones with humorous sayings.

I used an old Industar 50-2 lens for this image.

Nice shot.

Love the white flowers.

Some that have windows front and rear.



These attracted me to the above crypt.




Signs of human interaction with loved ones can really make for powerful images.

Each one holds it's own merits and challenges.

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I wouldn't even have to get cold, but given the impetus, I think I may. The B&W would make it look colder and deader.

These days the sun is quite low in the sky all day... and night.

Hmmm

Can you really have too many?

Not an oyster fan...still, nice photo.

if they were real.
Wonderful photo, I'm happy you are posting photos. Welcome to us.
Have loved your name always.

photo deadlines. Now, I have set a calendar reminder.

Happy New Year, Mira !!

Just check in at the photo group every other day, and before you know it you'll become a regular.

This sounds like an especially interesting subject! Really looking forward to shooting for it!

I love how contest themes open my eyes to what's around me that may ordinarily ignored.
I think it's a stimulating subject as well.

will be accepted.