Still Clarifying

 My blog post is coming in late this week because I got behind in my schoolwork and needed to play catch-up on Friday (when I usually blog) and yesterday. Going to keep it simple today.

I'm still working on clarifying exactly what it is I want with regards to the Ordinary Beauty project. This past week, here are the photos I came up with:

I like this because it's objects reduced to shapes and colors. I edited it as I usually do for my photos, cropping to frame it how I want, increasing warmth, and increasing saturation. I don't fully love it though. Partly because I didn't get the focus on the lamp post very sharp an partly because I'd like it to fill slightly more of the frame. I do really like the way the blue, the green, and the orange look together. Here is my runner-up:

This is a "nicer" picture, I think, and it still does fit my criteria of what I'm going for, as it's a more up-close look at a plant than one might normally go for and I like that it has a narrow-ish depth of field (the plants in the background are not in focus). But finding beauty in plant-life almost feels like a cheat. I mean, that's not going to stop me from taking pictures of plants, because I love to, but it just seems like a more obvious beauty, and I'm really interested in the less obvious, more serendipitous beauty.

Here is my creation for the week. A simple sketchbook page. I think once I've graduated and can devote more time to creative stuff, I'll have more to show for my weekly creations.