hmm...my talented artist friend and neighbor julie invited me to to join a photography collaboration where participants took photos of a tree in the summer (week of august 23), fall (week of november 8) and then the third and final photo in the spring (week of april 4...woops...i appear to be a couple weeks late on this final contribution)...you can see her instructions for the collaboration as well as her final photo which i just realized was taken down the street from us at a nearby park.i really enjoyed taking this series of photos. i will quickly summarize my angle or analysis of the previous two photo shoots:
olive tree part 1
photos from when we first walked through our house (story is only 6 months old in the foreground)...same view taken again last summer...looking out of our living room window at the tree...trunk shot...late afternoon shadows with dark skies...story swinging in the tree (he's too big to do this now!) along with a close-up of green unripe olives...
olive tree part 2
sunset shot with the tree as a silhouette light through the hummingbird feeder, traffic in the background...close up of "fall" leaves changing color...and "fruit" (olives) on the tree...the tree's branches casting shadows in the late day...sea and story posing in low light...more dramatic sunsets...sea posing...
and now for the photos from olive tree part 3 taken this week just before earth day...i'd hoped to post them ON earth day but, well, i'd hoped to do this a couple weeks ago, too...
it had just rained...as sunny and blue as the skies look, i took these shots right in between rain...here is the wet trunk...it started raining again within 20 minutes or so...
little buds getting ready to grow into olives...
sea posing...
ok, close-up posing...
a few more...story was napping while i took these (sorry he didn't make the last photo shoot!)
full view...
sea dancing around...
and i'll leave you with a couple yoga moves...
thanks for following our family living in and around this lovely olive tree! special thanks to julie for the challenge...looking forward to the next one! now go check out her blog and sign up for an online class or just be inspired by her work!
what a cool idea! And how fun to have Sea involved! We have these UGLY evergreen trees in our front yard that are WAY too overgrown and some silver maples which are VERY messy trees. The olive tree is GREAT! Their delicate leaves are breathtaking!
ReplyDeleteWhat could be better than olives on the way and some yoga to boot?
ReplyDeleteThank you for playing along with us during the collaboration, Denise!