So, here's the picture I took [yesterday]:
It's just a yellow flower, growing around the corner. It's a pretty wild thing and while it's not particularly beautiful, there's something about it that caught my eye yesterday morning when I first saw it.
Since I had no camera at hand, I made a mental note of its location and returned armed with the camera in the afternoon.
I don't know what attracts me to this flower. I think it's the imperfectness of it. The -let's say- lack of beauty. It's a typical city-flower. More in common with the common weed that grows in the pavement than with the beautiful (and expensive) bouquets we commonly associate flowers with.
I dunno. I was walking by and it was love at first sight. I knew that the flower would make a nice picture.
I think I was right, cause I really like how the pic came out.
Photographically, there's not much I can tell about it. It's pretty standard. I knew I wanted the flower completely centered and wanted it to be the only splash of color in the frame.
I've been trying to use my wide angle lens a lot lately. My theory is that I suck at taking pictures with wide angle lenses, so I should be using them as often as possible :)
I used the 17-35 zoom (yes, I have one zoom lens!!! but I got it for free, it used to belong to a big newspaper and it's had the crap beaten out of it... still works, though).
AND to make it even more interesting, I'm trying to shoot more color pictures. Basically for the same reason. I suck at color.
So, here you go. A color picture of a flower, taken with a wide angle lens! all things I suck at :)
