My gear of choice for this assignment was my Nikon D850 paired with my AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G lens.
If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.*
This is the ultimate call to physically move your body toward the subject rather than relying upon a zoom lens or shooting from afar — precisely the premise of this week’s Lens-Artists challenge.
Not, as it happens, my usual style. I’m definitely one of the lucky ones because I have two zoom lenses both, in the vernacular, “exceptionally good glass”. In most scenarios, I can zoom tight and get exactly the shot I want. Plus, these damned syncopes are wreaking havoc with my mobility, but I did persevere, at least within the friendly confines of our laneway where watching eyes were always on me.
Our Wee Courtyard Garden
Hybrid Tea Rose (Rosa JAColite) “Honor”
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Our Shared Laneway Garden
American Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)
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Gay’s Chàrn†
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Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
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Catch Basin Grate
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To Anne, thank you so very much for robustly shoving me out of my comfort zone — I did thoroughly enjoy assembling this week’s images. I’d high hopes of shooting a few of Kingsville’s interesting buildings, but there’s a bit of a problem with fainting out on the main roads. For another challenge, then! Please take a few minutes to visit her blog and read her post — Anne’s an abfab writer, I know you’ll find her narrative super-interesting, and her photographs are stunning:
Lens Artists Challenge #415: Move Your Body
’Til next time, y’all…
*Robert Capa, World War II photographer and photojournalist.
†Scots’ Gaelic for cairn. Gaelic blessing: “Cuiridh mi clach air do chàrn” — literally, I will put a stone on your cairn. Long ago, it meant you would honor a person’s life by adding a rock to their monument after they’d passed, but over time it’s become a friendly way of saying, I will never forget you.
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