Once a week—or every so often—I will display one of my photos captured and/or processed with Instagram over the last week (this photo is actually more than a week old, but I haven’t posted any new material the last week). It’s a way for me to show photography that usually is quite different from my regular work. Except for the technical details beneath the pictures are displayed without any comments, hoping they will stand on their own. But I still very much appreciate any comments you may have.
Facts about the photo: The photo was taken with a Panasonic Lumix LX-100 with the lens set at 34 mm (the equivalent of a 75 mm for a full frame camera). Shutter speed: 1/125 of a second. Aperture: f/2.8. The photo was transferred to my cell phone and then processed with the Snapseed app with the Drama filter.
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Beautiful!
Thank you, Ana Lucia.
stark beauty; winter; transience; a ‘fertile’ image to ponder upon.
Thank you for the feedback, Tish.
lovely blues and concrete greys, same colour as in my picture today
Haven’t been over to your blog today, but will get there. 🙂
you are welcome any time, Otto, i love your comments!
Just shows you, how little, but just right, how simple, but just enough is often more enduring than £10.000 spent on travel to foreign exotic parts of the globe.
Wabi-Sabi is now my motto!
An excellent motto. And you are so right. The best pictures you can easily take in your own backyard.
Finding joy and beauty even in the ordinary. Love it.
Thank you, Miriam.
Love the texture.
That’s really what made me take the photo. 🙂
Excellent Otto
Thank you very much, Roland.
This is a beautiful photo. You can see the changing of the seasons in it.
It’s hopefully the end of one season. 🙂
Lol. I hope so too.
Soft and tender and yet thorns and death. Almost warm eggplant color and icy blue. Full of contrasts but so beautiful.
I love your description and the way you see the photo. Thank you, Greta.
Wonderful, Otto!
Thank you, Christy.
The personification of winter, the crunch of dried leaves folding into themselves, awaiting regeneration, a beautiful photograph as always Otto, thank you. Holly
Thank you Holly. I do like winter, but when it looks like this, albeit beautifully so, I long for spring. 🙂
We have had a warmer than usual winter, the flowers have continued to bloom with hardly any noticeable lapse, seasons seem to fade into the next. Have a beautiful day Otto, wishing you a speedy Spring. 🙂
Beautiful colour and texture. leaves are always beauties…in whatever stage they are.
Leaves are indeed very special. Thank you, Ann-Christine.
I love how the stem in the foreground of your image has a “ghost” behind it, running parallel through the whole image. It creates both depth and a sense of harmony. Just beautiful, Otto!
Well observed. Thank you, Munro.
The season for contemplation. Beautiful.
So much interest in such a simple subject attests to you great skills, Otto.
Often the simplest holds the deepest depths. Thank you for the feedback.
I like to color tone.. The leaves and the background colors are so matching and event the cold light. The picture just give a feeling of a cold winter time.
It sure was taken during a cold winter day. Thank you for the feedback.
I’ve an impulse to take one of those leaves and crush it — I can hear the crackle, and feel the cold shattering. Even though the leaves clearly belong to the same tree (or shrub, perhaps), the variety among them is interesting. No leaf curls in exactly the same way.
I know the feeling, such dry leaves are meant to be crackled. 🙂
I love this one, Otto!
Have a great weekend.
Thank you, Lisa. May you enjoy the rest of your weekend, too.
I like your article, very inspiring and thank you for your post
Thank you.
Nice subtle tones. I like the way the lighter, curled-up underside contrasts with the top side of the leaves. I admire their tenacity in clinging to the branch this far into winter. I feel a bit like that myself! 🙂
No a bad trait to have during winter time. Thank you for the feedback, León.
Pretty, in a desolate sort of way.
Quite so.
There are days I feel like that leaf. But look there is still beauty to be captured there. I hope to feel like that too.
I think we all have beauty in us, even on bad days. 🙂
Mycket tilltalande Otto. Vilsamt men ändå livfullt i så vackra toner.
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Takk skal du ha, Monica.
Instagram is an application I like because I post different pictures everyday
I like too, because it’s such an easy app – and fun to use.
Yes, it’s easy to use and other user can discover your account and follow you