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Page 6, Viewpointe March 2020

The Photo Corner:

The Art of Seeing - Looking Straight Ahead

By George Steinman

As I selected the topic
Looking up and Down last
month, it was a natural choice
to have Looking Straight
Ahead for this month’s
photographic topic. From
some of my past photographic
experiences, I learned
that given photographic
assignments in photo classes
and also entering photographs in National Geographic Your
Shot, for example, are wonderful stimuli for enhancing
photographic creativity. It stimulates the photographic genes
as I call them to really see what our wonderful planet is all
about. The specific choice of topics also helps. Some that I
remember include, as examples, the Color Red, Reflections,
Shadows, Black on Black, Our Four Legged Friends, Style, My
Favorite Place, and Hands. The creation of the photographs for
the selected topic is left solely to the imagination and feelings
vision and the ability of the photographer. As an example,
photographs for the topic Hands Up could range anywhere
from a grandmother holding a baby to say a violinist playing a
violin to hands up in the air while dancing to the song YMCA Staghorn Plant Tillandsia Air Plant
sung by the Village People. Comparably the topic Our Four
Legged friends would show what our friends are all about and present some brand new photographs. With this we would And with this thank goodness for Nikor wide angle lenses.
not just a facial picture. It would be what animals are all about up at Joel Meisner’s home [here in the Palms in Boca Pointe] After a lot of looking and test photographs, I chose the one
and maybe even tell a story. One example I saw is a little girl which is really in effect a small scale arboretum. While Joel you see here as the entire plant was shown properly with its
sitting at a small table and finger painting while her pet cat was giving a tour of his plantings I found several plants that I intertwining of branches and keeping everything in focus. My
is sitting on the table with a quizzical look as he is watching had not seen before or photographed before. These are colorful, experiment with converting the photograph to black and white
her. Another example would be a little girl blowing bubbles unique, interesting and colorful. So here are three beauties I portrayed a more dramatic scene, interesting, but not for this
with her dog up in the air with jaw wide open about to catch had not seen before. article now. I will probably show the black and white version
a bubble. That’s what it’s all about. Staghorn Fern at a later date.
So for today’s topic, Looking Straight Ahead, this is Staghorn ferns [also known as Elkhorn Ferns] are a variety Tillandsia Air Plant
something kind of novel for me as I’m always looking around of ferns due to their uniquely shaped fronds. Certainly the shape Tillandsia is a genus of about 650 species of evergreen,
to see what’s around. Yes I have a lot of straight ahead type of the varied fronds and unique colors make this fern a beauty. perennial plants. The term air plant is used as the plant
of photographs which I could show. But I really wanted to Mystery Plantus Unknownus gets most of its nutriments from the air around it. In this
Here you see an amazing plant. Due to its size and shape it photograph I was able to show it’s gorgeous colors from the
was named the Mystery Plantus Unknownus. What a beauty. color spectrum. It’s really a beauty. You see it here.
And yes it’s interesting. With its extended size and shape it That’s it for this month. Always remember to have your
took some time to determine the best way to present this plant. camera with you all the time as you may see something that
you have never seen before
and might never see again.
And always remember to
be careful where you stand
for your safety and photo
composition. Also don’t forget
the Peter Lik philosophy “It’s
not what you see. It’s how you
see it.” Follow the light and
photograph everything that
light makes beautiful. May the
light be with you always. And
most important, always make
photography fun.

George Steinman is a
resident of The Palms and can
be contacted at sgphotollc@
gmail.com. 
Mystery Plantus Unknownus

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