Painting is just another way of keeping a diary ~Pablo Picasso

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The Gingko Tree

This photo was inspired by my nephew, Noah.  He's decorating his room with a collage of frames, six oriented for landscape and six for portrait, and he requested some photos for all these frames.  I had a lot of fun picking out different colors and patterns for this project, but I realized two things:  1. I rarely photograph in portrait orientation, and 2. I rarely photograph yellow and red.  It seems like I mainly photograph blue, orange, and green.  I even photograph purple more than I do red or yellow!  So when I saw this Gingko tree in Sacramento over the weekend, I decided to photograph it...in portrait orientation.

4 comments:

Bill said...

That tree looks as if it has a lot of character. Beautiful photo!

TexWisGirl said...

one down; 5 more to go! :)

Sketchbook Wandering said...

Oh, the sun, the color, the lines!!

Gail Dixon said...

This is really nice! I read a photography article just yesterday that most people shoot predominately in landscape--I guess to get more of the scene. But this is a perfect example of why one should shoot portrait every once in a while!