With such beautiful weather on Kiawah Island now, I was compelled to grab my camera and head out to photograph a few interesting birds for this week’s challenge. Too bad the birds were not aware of this. The location I chose was around Cinder Creek. A rustic clubhouse is beside the marsh along with a lovely gazebo out over the Creek. Directly across the road is a large swamp area and a ghost forest. This is where birds had been spotted several days earlier. Although, unfortunately there was only one White Egret to be seen.
Since I was already there, to make the best of the situation, I decided to try creating a few abstract images of the trees using camera motion. Something new for me and since Ann-Christian suggested we could try something different this week, I thought I’d give it a try. Thinking the camera settings were correct, I panned to the left and right and also up and down. The results in camera were terrible, I only saw blank white pictures when checking the ‘playback’. 😂
Not willing to admit defeat just yet, when returning home, I put the pictures in Photoshop to see if there was anything to salvage. To my surprise, there was just enough white pixels to create some sort of images, which are shown below. (And, to give you an idea of how the initial subject looked, the header at the top of this post shows the swamp and ghost trees.)
When walking back to the clubhouse and gazebo across the road, the path to the gazebo looked very inviting in the morning light.
It was nice to see rocking chairs overlooking the Creek – wonderful place to sit, relax and enjoy being surrounded by nature!
This is such a picturesque area. This is the view on the other side of the gazebo. The tide was at its lowest point then which explains all the mud flats and oyster shells. It has a completely different look at other times.
Hope you enjoyed going on this morning photo shoot with me and thank you for visiting my post (double clicking each image shows a larger version).
This week Ann-Christine suggests we choose our own subject and share whatever it is we find interesting. Be sure to check out her beautiful post here showing the many “faces” of Anemone Hepatica, a tiny blue flower!