Into and Out of the Cold

You may recall that Sue was blessed with an iPhone13 for Christmas, and you may also recall that it was just in the nick of time as her iPhone6 gave up the ghost just a few days earlier.

She was also gifted with Scott Kelby's, The iPhone Photography Book, and I am pleased to say that she is gingerly picking her way through it and learning as she goes. In my opinion, Kelby is the best teacher-author for photography, Photoshop, Lightroom, and now phone photography. In the distant past, when Photoshop was a new thing to me, it was his book, after I had tried several others, that helped me a lot. But that is me getting off topic again.

Sue found a 365 photo theme/challenge on fb. They give her a daily prompt, and, along with many other enthusiasts, she posts her results to the private group.

Her Monday prompt was to post a photo using a macro in a landscape that connoted power. Those are my words; I don't don't how the prompt was precisely phrased.

This ↓ was Sue's post. She held my phone and directed me how to take the photo with her phone. Can you see how it fulfilled the requirements of the theme?

The landscape part is obvious, and her hands and phone are close, so that is the macro part. The phone is also powerful: her iPhone13 particularly.

I might add that the cold was also powerful on that day. It took us about 10 minutes to get what she wanted, and with the mercury very deep in the minus, our fingers were just about dropping off. We were both pretty adamant that whatever the prompt, we wouldn't take it outside on the next day, which was to be even more frigid if that were possible.

That Tuesday prompt had to do with landscapes and sunbursts. Fortunately, Sue had, just a few evenings prior, photographed a sunset from our bedroom in which you can see rays emanating from the sun. They aren't vivid, but they're there.

I'm glad that she has found a challenge to go with her new phone. There is a 365 challenge on Flickr to which I was invited to participate this year, but I declined. That particular challenge would necessitate taking a photo on every single day and not using a photo like Sue's, above, that she had taken two days previously. I just don't want to be forced to take a daily photo. I like to do my own thing in my own time.

Since I can't think of many photos to take right now, I can look back at old photos and edit or reedit them. I have recently reimagined two of JJ from 2015 that I have converted to b&w in a very fine art sort of style. I enjoyed both the challenge and the result.

After a relatively mild winter up until last week, we are really in a deep freeze, and the long range forecast isn't giving me much hope. Maybe I will be able to find some more photos to reprocess within the relative warmth of our modest domicile.