Sometimes I take great photographs. It is important to know what we do well and acknowledge it and I am good at composition. But sometimes all the images I take are rubbish.
So, yesterday as I puttered about in the melting snow and ice, filling all the water troughs with the hoses and feeding my animals and birds, enjoying the rising temperatures, I took rubbish photos. It was warmer but darker yesterday. The kunekune took themselves for long, long walks. Tima was almost all the way down to the letter box. I had to fill my pockets with apples and go and retrieve her – she was getting too close to the road. Not that there is traffic but you know what I mean.
Tane got so much mud on his face that when he came home and lay down in the barn for a rest after his big walk the straw stuck to his face. He is growing tusks, they seem to be growing at right angles out the side of this mouth. Though they are feathery looking they are sharp and he does not like me to examine them. D you think his jaw aches like a teething baby? I must check Manu and see if he has baby tusks.
Did you ever see that movie Delicatessen?. I can barely remember it. What I remember the most is the darkness. The lack of light. Yesterday was like that. Except for the eating of the people bit. At least I think that was what that movie was about I need to watch it again. Maybe I am mixing it up with Eat the Rich – though that was nothing like Delicatessen. Different countries.
I think I drunk too much in the 90’s – all those movies have fallen into the blender with the potato peelings vodka.
Speaking of dark foreign movies, last night I watched “Ida”. It is a Polish movie. Made in 2004 I think. Black and White. Beautiful. Startling in its simplicity.
I love winter for a number of reasons – one reason is the time I have to myself. Once the chores are done and all the dishes are washed and stacked I can retreat into the world of books and movies. The animals retreat into sleep when it is cold. I retreat into words and images.
I hope you have a lovely day. Tomorrow might be sunny and I will get better images for you.
Much love
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
52 responses to “Wild Focus”
I agree …your photos are not rubbish! and for heavens sake- the pic of cows lunching out of a car trunk is hysterically funny!
I love the shot of The Three Amigos. Ida was a stunning film, I remember one wild visual where she is standing by a curtain at a window and she twirls into the curtain like a helix of light.
yes, that image impressed me too.. stunning.. c
I’ve loved every photo I’ve seen here. They are real!! I love winter for the same reason, Time to read a book or watch a movie and even get a bit of my sewing projects done. Summer is filled with outside chores and by the time you are done, you just want to close your eyes and sleep. I love a long, cozy winter too.
The movie Ida was great. I just watched another good polish movie but I can’t rember the title. It’s about a Polish prisoner saving young Jewish girl in a concentration camp and what happens later in the life .
Extraordinary…all those comments reminded of when I ran the film society at art school….I think my time at art school took away my liking for artful things.
Digital is a blessing, isn’t it? I’m just learning to use my new DSLR, and believe me — the learning curve is much more tolerable when you can ditch the poor ones. I went out Saturday and took a cardful of photos — all at an ISO of 6400. I’d been messing with settings, and forgot to change them back. The good news is that I figured out what was wrong.
Like you, I have a good eye for composition, but getting just the effect we want can take a bit more: sometimes knowledge, sometimes patience, sometimes luck. In the meantime, we enjoy what we have. I like your attitude: realistic and accepting.
You Are a great photographer! And yes, we all take rubbish shots amidst the great ones. 🌻
thanks for the movie reference. I spend too much time figuring out what to watch on Netflix.
Hi Libby! Here are some things I loved on netflix: Damages, Orange is the New Black, PARENTHOOD!!!, Bones and more which I can’t immediately recall just now. These mentioned are series. Enjoy! Gayle
Today lovely photos as always, Celi! Love best the pic of the car feeder – that’s mine.
Here the snow went away too. Suddenly. Today we had 11°C and the birds are lively announcing spring. Beautiful. I hope they will not get disappointed later, when winter comes back. We must not forget, it’s still January, not May… 😉
Wishing you happy winter relax…..
Oh May seems SO far away! c
I think you’d have to work very hard to make a rubbish photo, much harder than to just take a good one. You’ve got the eye, the sense of what you want to capture and how. I like the well decorated Tane, it didn’t seem to bother him any. TIma has mischief in her eyes, watch that girl.
If you do take rubbish composition pics I hadn’t noticed… still haven’t. And, if winter means time to retreat into the world of books and movies, well, I’m underwhelmed by our topsy-turvey summer weather anyway.
I had to smile at your stuffing apples in your pockets to retrieve your wandering Tima.
Yes, she goes SO FAR – they always come back but I don’t like her to get too close to the road.. c
I don’t blame you there. Have to take care of that roaming sweetie.
Some days I take rubbish photos too. This morning is a Delicatessen morning here–very heavy dark grey skies and flat light–unusual for us except for this summer! xx
Your images are always grand! I think I saw delicatessen also, but I can’t remember what it was about! Whoops 😄