August’s Photography Theme Image Round Up
Throughout August the members have been out exploring the world around their feet. This has been a very eye opening challenge, inspiring many to see beyond the obvious and delve into many different subjects. It’s rare we stop and consider what we are walking on and what’s going on around our feet but this challenge certainly got everyone thinking!
Puddles and Reflections
Stephanie Barker
Storms provide the opportunity to reflect the world back to us in the most magical way! Sometimes the world around our feet is above us.
Kent Hall
World at our feet - Reflections in the morning.
Michal Havlik
The World at our Feet
Water Droplets
Michal Havlik
The World at our Feet
Peter Grant
The World Around Your Feet. Macro shot of a drop of dew on the grass.
Lynn Medley
After a rain shower found it a perfect time to capture raindrops on the grass.
Darrell Oakden
More monos from beneath my feet.
Fungi
Ann Bollen
Walking about Scarborough and came a across some mushrooms. Sometimes it pays to look down at your feet.
Lynn Medley
Fungi can be so surprising you never know where they might pop up. I believe this is a Jackson’s Slender Caesar. Seek by iNaturalist is a wonderful app to identity plants, flowers, etc.
Adrian Todd
The weather was a bit grey today, but was still able to pull out a photo I love. A tiny mushroom sticking out the ground.
Raymond Metcalfe
World around our feet
May Hamilton
Tiny fungi in the grass
Denise Savage
Inspired by some of the fungi sharing that's been about, I'd thought I'd chip in with a couple I've taken in the last couple of seasons here in Tassie. These are ones I'm really proud of. A couple were accidental finds. I was photographing something else, looked around and tada! There they were . . .
Woodland Floor
Christopher Gerard
At the base of an Elm tree, I believe.
Brian Nicholson
Today I took a walk in a woodland close to home and came across an area with bracken...I was drawn to an area with a moss covered log and at the end of it I saw this canopy of small bracken sheltering clover with something growing up...also an insect on the stalk.
Aileen O’Keeffe
World around my feet - while I was out with my camera photographing Sunflowers looking down at my feet growing beneath the sunflowers was this pumpkin. - Autumn is on its way
Denise Savage
The leaves on the ground are after it had switched and the leaves with their various shapes, patterns and colours were captivating me. Especially against the backdrop of the textured tones of the earth.
Garry Platt
The Old Forest Road - No one takes the Forest Road now, it lies empty and forgotten. Travellers from yesteryears have all passed through and gone. The emerald canopy no longer shades the journeyman and drover as they walked the woodland path, now there kind are over the hills and far, far away. Here is silence broken only by the murmur of the wind and the rustling of the leaves.
Flowers and plants
Stephanie Barker
I set out last night to capture a shot of the Sturgeon full moon but not in the typical manner- I wanted to capture its the essence, it’s light as it reflected off of surfaces. I shot this image as the moonlight filtered through the the trees in the most beautiful way and wrapped itself around this plant at my feet.
Neill Windebank
A walk around the garden some go's at macro
May Hamilton
Macro first ever attempt on full auto. Not quite sure where the camera was focusing but here are a couple of quite blurry shots! Think it's good to share my first shot to see how (hopefully!) I progress.
Adrian Todd
The world below our feet at Spurn National Nature Reserve
Yvonne Jevons
World around your feet. Kim will recognise this one from early this month. First attempts with extension tubes and close-up/macro. This is the best of a bad bunch
Kathy Wolfe
When I looked down I realized the pebbles are now covered in green leaves.
Christopher Gerard
Standing by the bus stop
Garry Platt
High Summer - It’s August and those fields of England which are not drowned by rain are full of flowers and bees gathering pollen to make honey. This field is so impossibly full of daisies it seems to have turned yellow. The occasional grass seed-head pokes through the myriad blossoms and there is a constant buzz of bumblebees flying back and forth. There is no other sight like a field meadow in bloom.
Mar Ga
Here’s my contribution to this months theme The World Beneath Our Feet: a curious little red clover flower that I found in the meadow nearby.
Wanda-Lynne Searles
The world at our feet.
West Indian Lantana, White Periwinkle Flower and Purple Heart plant. These were taken with my iPhone 14.
Stephanie Barker
It’s easy to make a grand entrance, a huge splash as you enter a room, but it takes a certain style and elegance to exit and leave everyone breath- taken
Craig Williams
World Anout Our Feet - There are 3 types of gorse bushes - Common, Western and Dwarf. The Dwarf flowers late summer inti Autumn looks lovely spinkled in the glorious heather on the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. Taken on a short walk on the Forest (home of Winniw the Pooh). I used my Canon 5D Mk4 with my 100mm macro lens
On The Beach
Sue Rafferty
Walking on the beach has always been a favourite and coming along little gems like this never fails to make me smile. This was taken on Luskentyre and I loved the tones in this little shell but it wasn't until I started to edit the image that I really appreciated the myriad of colours in the sand around it.
May Hamilton
We went to Findhorn and I was in absolute awe of the beautiful pebbles on the beach at my feet. This one was sparkling so much in the sunshine I had to take its photo. Then, by happy accident, managed to make the sparkles into bocah which had me mesmerised.
Yvonne Jevons
World around our feet - At the beach. I was blessed to get to the coast for a brief visit the other day, good to get the wind in my face and breath the sea air. Another episode of the ‘trying out macro’ journey.
Ian Taggart
My arrival at Aberdeen Beach this morning.
Denise Savage
I often find myself noticing what’s beneath my feet. These images taken a couple of days ago were what I noticed when I stepped onto a beach on Bruny Is just off the southern parts of Tasmania. I want to go back to this little island again without the rest of family so I can take in more of its treasures. I had the phone camera with me and very much enjoyed capturing the sense of texture and pattern that was in the sand at my feet.
Brian Nicholson
Shadows of grasses in the sand at the beach.
Adrian Todd
The world below our feet at Spurn National Nature Reserve
Carol Spence
I headed to the end of the beach to clamber over the rocks, the tide was just going out so water pockets were left in the rocks! One of my favourite rocks is the first image you see called Dolphin Rock, hmmm I wonder why
Bugs and Insects
Darrell Oakden
Dodging showers in the garden practising mono shots of things beneath my feet, but had to take this peacock that showed up.
Craig Williams
World under your feet | One of my favourite butterflies - Peacock | These are nomads of the garden. As you will see our grass is a little dry in places. It has been one of those Summers.
Lynn Medley
Can you spot the spider? It wasn’t till I got the web in focus that I spotted the spider.
Hayata Takeshita
The star of the show was the beetle however.
The red discoloration in the images is from the flickering of the moth light that was used to attract the bugs. It is a mismatch with how fast the camera sensor can be read. It kind of works for the beetle photo. It looks more like shadows and adds a little mystery.
Neill Windebank
a walk around the garden some go's at macro
Animals
Simon Temlett
Whilst getting down amongst the woodland floor, a baby hedgehog ambled past whilst i was busy looking at other creepy crawlies including a grass snake in a adjacent pond...
Yvonne Jevons
An image from a veterans family fun day at a local farm where I spotted frogs in the pond.
Concrete
Brian Nicholson
I am down at Granton by the Royal Forth Yacht Club after visiting Go Outdoors and saw this rusty securing ring with the indentation in the concrete so had to look down at at cradled with my feet.
Darrell Oakden
I felt the feet needed to stay in.
Darrell Oakden
More monos from beneath my feet.
Ann Bollen
On the pier in Whitby. Looked down to footprints in the concrete...
Garry Platt
Sunrise on the stone setts of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The streets truly are paved with gold.
Christopher Gerard
Strong sun shining on pavement after heavy shower
Ann Bollen
A plant growing through the cracks on the pavement.
Denise Savage
The world around our feet
Adrian Todd
Taken from the idea in the zoom meeting with cracks in rocks , this photo is cracks in clay.
Amazing Views
Darrell Oakden
World beneath my feet.
Ice
Yvonne Jevons
Ice over shallow water and grass
Books
Sue Rafferty
This is such a great challenge, I was looking at some lovely old books but then glanced down at these books that were standing proud of the bottom shelf. The patina on the edge of the pages made them look like wood, fabulous against the frayed linen binding.
It’s safe to say this months challenge was great fun! It was great to see so much variety once more. Well done to all that embraced it!
