Theme Thursday

Like a good friend, I have been studiously ignoring Cari's requests to link up to her Theme Thursdays, where she is exploring the best that modern photography can offer.  The reason?  I suck at photography.  And somehow it's one of those topics where I just assume "meh, it'll 'happen' sometime".  I have no intention of working on it, you see.

Except that, well, I'd actually like to be better at photography.  I would.  Don't tell Cari.

With that in mind, I gave it my best shot this week.  The theme was Architecture, which I took as loosely as I possibly could.  Here are my photos, and my own critiques.  As usual anything artistic or decent is almost certainly a complete accident.

Photo #1 - The Vine Covered Fence

I tried to zoom in on the fence here with the idea that the vines looked nice draped over the lattice.  I did intentionally keep the little post top in the shot rather than moving the picture over to the right and avoiding it.  I worried that it would look 'uneven' but actually I don't mind it there.


Photo #2 - The Clothesline

I knew I wanted both clothes wheels and the lantern included in the picture, but the final shot was both better and worse than I hoped for.  On one side, it's angled and the top wheel is partly cut off.  I don't know if this increases the 'depression era' styling or if it just looks horribly messy.  But on the other side, the wheels are different, and although I didn't notice that until after the picture was taken, I love it.

Photo #3 and #4 - The Veranda

This is the house behind us, and neither of these pictures turned out very well.  I was trying to focus on the Victorian veranda and instead ended up with a lot of messy branches and fuzziness.  And the house looks off-kilter and everything is yucky.  Moving on.

Photo #5 - The Fence

I think this one might be my favourite of the bunch.  You can see the snow falling, but it isn't overwhelming.  And I really wanted to capture the broken fence, which I think stands out despite all the messy branches and such, unlike the above pictures.  There is a linear quality to it, but still a very organic sense at the same time.

So there you go.  Now go check out the better photos and tell us what you think.