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a rusted water thing? in the middle of the park. The beautiful park used to be a golf course. so glad that they decided to preserve the land and keep it a wide open space. (10/365)
This photo were taken back in March 2012. I am just catching up with them. I had started to put up our trip to Northland but for some reason never got them all up.
Matakana is a small town in the Rodney Ward of Auckland Council of New Zealand. The Matakana River flows through the town and into Kawau Bay to the south-east.
Matakana's first public building, the Presbyterian School and church, opened in 1864. By 1881, Matakana had about 150 people and most of the bush had been cut. Agriculture replaced it, especially fruit. Matakana Dairy Factory opened in December 1902; the building is now a shop.
More More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matakana
This is a late entry for Get Pushed Round 8. I spent much of this past week sick and homebound and feeling uninspired. Yesterday was the first day I was feeling up to trying to meet the challenge.
My partner was Huub Zeeman. Before he sent me my challenge, I looked through his stream and admired the way he uses line and shape is his photographs, especially in his architectural photographs, but line and shape influence everything he does, even his portraits!
So his challenge to me seemed appropriate:
"As far I can see, most of your photos do have a one to one relationship with reality. An apple is an apple, a girl is a girl and so on. That's a great way of taking pictures, nothing wrong, but I think you can make a picture that's beyond of that way of looking.
"I want you to take an abstraction out of a thing you see in reality. Just by altering your point of view or zooming in to the subject! You don't have to think of making an 'abstract", just think abstract while taking the picture!"
Maybe it was because I was sick, but I found this a real challenge!!! At first I was thinking modern and architectural, like some of the photos I admire in his stream, and it took me a while to get past that (not much modern architecture where I live). Then I was looking for interplays of light and shadow, but we haven't had much sun recently (and I've been stuck inside), so that wasn't working.
I finally decided to go with what I know well, which I think is color and depth of field. I tried to get beyond the idea of looking at things as they are and just look for the possibilities of interesting color and interesting bokeh. That seemed to work for me.
This is one of the photos I came up with. I hope it fits, Zuub.
I'm taking Round 9 off from Get Pushed, but my last partner, Lynn Nord, and I just spent a few days picking the winners of the Round 8 Get Pushed Trejack Award. If you are a member of the Get Pushed group (or even if you aren't), please go look at that discussion in the Get Pushed group to see who we picked and why.
I myself a mechanical engineer post graduate ! :) Love these valves as a photographic subject. More so when it is rusted. Some of the first few test shots, directly taken out of my D750, noedit whatsoever and uploaded through wifi utility ;)
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This old, rusting tractor sits in an area just off the road along Rt 9 north of Carrollton, Ohio. I've lost track of how many times I have passed this thing this year alone since Rt 9 is one of my favorite riding routes going south. I have no idea how old this tractor is but the emblem says "Oliver" and it has a crank starter.
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The "Picture This!" assignment for this week was Ghosts on the Landscape. When I read that assignment a week ago, this was the first thing that came to mind.