Today I was out walking with Charlie and the air was cold, there was silence all around and the sun was coming up.  I just loved the solitude with the hint of a warm day coming.  I took two exposures one that accentuate the sky, and one that accentuate then ground.  I made my final exposure, a balance between both of them.  Charlie and I walked on.

I do read all my comments but I don’t always reply to them, often because I don’t know how to express my answers in a fashion that would do credit to the person that wrote them.  Yesterday A friend, Glenn, commented that he sees the world in colour and it got me thinking. Glenn is a great photographer and his images are far more complex and wonderful than just seeing in colour.  Unfortunately many photographers are not so skilled.  They often think they see but they don’t perceive and without that they can’t imagine.  Picture in your mind a warm summer day, a soft breeze, a babbling brook and birds chirping and you come along a beautiful trillium.  You photograph the flower and the final image isn’t how you remember it. Why?  The photograph can’t capture the warm summer day, a soft breeze, a babbling brook and birds chirping all the things that encouraged you in the first place to take the picture.  When you see a scene you have to be well aware of what you want the subject to be.  Then you have to imagine how you want it to look.  Finally you must use all your skills to  achieve this end.