Jude is hosting a “20/20 Photo Challenge” (here are the assignments). Each month she sets a new theme and gives tips about what to look for. Last month the theme was “composition”, this month it is “patterns”.
“This month we are going to look at Patterns. Patterns can be found everywhere, in nature or man-made constructions. For a photographer, using patterns is key to a good composition.
Each week Jude sets a new assignment and this week is a real challenge :
This week’s assignment is a bit more difficult – Break the pattern, disrupt the continuity in some way.
Hmmm… Had to think about this one. But Jude has posted some excellent examples (see here). So I have just spent an hour scrolling through past photos, having a lovely trip down memory lane. Really the idea of the challenge is to go out looking for new photos, but again the weather has turned too hot. So here I am sitting in my fan cooled “play room/studio” looking for inspiration. These are what I found…The tropical beehive ginger plant has such a perfectly, symmetrical flower spike, but the actual tiny flower heads open and break that pattern, saying “look at me”
Among a pattern of swaying vertical grasses the sun highlights the pink, spherical shape of the clover flower. Again breaking the pattern both in colour and shape.
Now for something a bit different. The rust colour of the barbed wire almost matches the colour of the lichen on the shaded left side of the post. But then it breaks the colour scheme as the sun turns the lichen on the right side of the post to an iridescent gold.
Finally, pushing the interpretation a bit here. But I love the silhouette of these trees against the pattern of the sky as the sun sets.
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A while back Jude asked me how the Buddha Belly plant was getting on, so I am putting in a gallery of images I took a couple of days ago. Just for you Jude…
Beehive ginger looks so synthetic. When I see it down south, it is always late, when the blooms are already deteriorating.
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They certainly are artificial looking but the flowers last about 6 months and give such a splash of colour. I don’t have any in my garden, but I’m planning to get some
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The boys are having their say early Pauline.
The photo of the sky has a nice pattern of electric wires,
is that pushing the interpretation?
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Trust you to notice them…🙄
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Must admit I hadn’t noticed the wires!
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Wires are the bane of photography aren’t they….
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I was a bit disappointed somewhere in your archives you have horizontally cut melons, apples, oranges, a bee on honey comb.also nautilus shells. They were the subjects I was expecting, so I impulsively mentioned the wires.
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You’re doing well with this challenge, Pauline. Just met your Jack yesterday on jacksjottings. 🙂
janet
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Jack doesn’t blog now. But he likes occasionally popping around visiting some of my followers
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All fabulous examples PP. The clover is perfect – you didn’t have to place it there? The sky is actually a good one for next week. You will see why. And thanks for the Buddha Belly pics. I had no idea what to expect other than the swollen trunk, but what unusual leaves it has. Jack must be very proud of his babies 😊
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That clover was very obligingly in the right place in a paddock in NZ. Did just crop slightly to get it on the third
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A riot of colour and patterns, Pauline!
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Thanks Sue
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Great choices – and I love that beehive ginger1 I saw it for the first time in Kew Gardens. The Buddha Belly plant has got very shiny green leaves – lovely as well.
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You will not find it in your gardens Leya, it is a real tropical plant, hates the cold
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Oh, I know – I saw it in a tropical house in Kew.
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A beautiful series! I love the first image especially. 🙂
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Those beehive gingers flower for about 5-6 months lighting up the garden
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💖 lovely!
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I like the simplicity of the clover shot, Pauline, and that sky is a stunner 🙂 🙂
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That clover photo was taken in the clean, green New Zealand. But I think parts are now in drought.
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It’s all a little crazy, isn’t it? From being almost burnt to a cinder, Brian’s place is now awash! And whatever you do, don’t go to South Wales(UK)!
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I think Yorkshire (my old home) is also being washed away
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It’s definitely damp underfoot! 😦
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Such lovely examples, Pauline. The clover is my favourite. Stay cool. 😎
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Thanks Sylvia 😊
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These are so beautiful! A group I once belonged to as a kid gave us a pattern-photography challenge, and I still love the pictures that produced. We even did some in black-and-white to highlight contrasts.
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This challenge does make me look around
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