A dear friend sent me an e-mail yesterday wondering if everything was okay because I hadn’t posted a blog.   The truth is that I slept right through my alarm and then after another hour it finally occurred to me that annoying noise was my alarm.  So no time for blogging, morning reading, taking a lesson or anything else.  Just shave, shower, shine and out the door.  🙂

After work yesterday I noticed some wonderful clouds in the southern sky and I wanted to find a scene that would allow me to include those clouds in the image.  I drove around for several minutes and decided to shoot this from the over pass on highway 61 South.

Photographs are everywhere you care to  look.  Once I shot the farm scene (first image) I notice the moon.  I didn’t take the big lens out and set up the tripod I just used the 28 – 300 mm lens and shot this image.

In many of the photography books I’ve read and on-line lessons I have taken one of the key rules is to shoot a scene from a perspective that the viewer does not normally see the subject.  So instead of shooting down on a flower, shoot it at eye level or from below the flower looking up.

That becomes increasingly difficult when (in my case) there is a high laziness factor, and a lot of my shooting is before or after work when I have a suit on, which is not conducive to crawling around on the ground.  So many times the image I take is what you would see anytime you might see the subject.

Having said all that.  The corn (we have a ton of it around Iowa) is normally viewed from the roadway moving at a pretty fast clip.  So on this same over pass that I shot the other two images I turned around and saw all this corn from a perspective I normally do not get to see.  The (almost) straight lines of the corn was what caught my eye.

If nothing else the 365 project is teaching me that images are all around and all I have to do is open my eyes and my mind.  Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Friday. they are all precious.  Be careful.