June’s Photography Theme Image Round-up
The month of June saw us explore the theme of Movement. This theme offered so many opportunities and saw our community members explore everything from freezing movement in an image, to exploring long exposures, intentional camera movement, multiple exposures and time-lapses. The subject opportunities were endless too, with everything from water to birds and artificial light to sports explored. In this blog you can see a round-up of many of the images shared by our community members in the members Facebook group.
WATER
Every theme we explore can be interpreted in whatever way people wish. With so much of the world made up of water, the earths oceans, rivers and waterfalls offered many opportunities under the theme of movement. Below you can see how many of the community members used water to create movement in their images throughout the month of June.
Grant Jasiunas
One of my favourites from a recent trip around the Scottish Islands
Brian Nicholson
A couple of weekends ago I was down at Cove on the East Lothian coast..as I walked down the path to the small harbour I sat on the grass bank to photograph the incoming waves....I particularly liked the movement of these waves so I used a crop to achieve this image.
Ian Taggart
Taken on a stormy day from the south side of Aberdeen Harbour.
Hayata Takeshita
Movement. From Belmar, New Jersey, USA. Here I go with my long exposures again although this is just .5 seconds. While it was very cloudy, there was a gap in the clouds behind me that let in some nice light and there is some color in the sky.
Carol Spence
When we visited the Fairy Pools I loved the waterfalls and although I don't have a filter yet I managed to get a shot which hopefully shows the movement of the waterfall and the clouds! and without any other tourists
Kathy Wolfe
I found the way to get this waterfall the front of me instead of from the side.
Jarred Wilson
A wee set from yesterday afternoon.
Paul Fields
I finally made it out with my camera after several months - and if felt treat! Great Falls Virginia is a great place to find motion. This particular waterfall spoke to me
Dave Varo
Capturing some movement. It may be a while before I see the results, but that’s the way with film
Christopher Gerard
"Storm in a Dew Pond."
Dotted across the tops of the South Downs in Sussex are a number of dew ponds. Much of the area is comprised of chalk where the rain water seeps through and has little opportunity to collect on the higher ground to water the animals that graze there. These 'dew ponds' are manmade to naturally store water for the livestock.
The day I went up to visit this one it was blowing a gale. Rather than the mirror like surface I often see, this is what I came across...
a tiny pond, but a rather tempestuous one!
Hayata Takeshita
Last Sunday I went for long streaky clouds at Belmar Beach. It was cloudy and windy that day. With all the long exposures I have done, I have never done one of these.
Darrell Oakden
Some movement.
Jarred Wilson
Having to dig through the archives at the moment. This one shot late last year at a semi local waterfall called Owharoa falls - I really like honing in on details like this to get something different.
Glen Sowerby
The obligatory water image as a kick-off for the movement challenge.
FLIGHT
Airplanes were a common subject too. Depicting travel and moving from one location to another.
May Hamilton
While down visiting my family I got to see the huge Emirates A380 flying overhead. Bit scary to live on the flightpath of such a huge plane but also fascinating to see.
Ian Taggart
I took the following photographs at a local gliding club which was holding a competition with other clubs this weekend. Weather was great with around a dozen gliders taking part.
Simon Temlett
Armed Forces Day in Scarborough yesterday so lots of aerobatic action to try and capture.
LIGHT PAINTING AND LIGHT TRAILS
Artificial light was a subject explored and look at by some members too. A mix of painting with light and using car lights to include light trails through images really allowed the beauty of long exposure after dark to be explored under the theme.
Ann Bollen
Instead of torch I used fairy lights for more light movement
Ian Taggart
These are the ICM photographs I took at a workshop on Saturday, the pink photos were taken inside with window light and the other two were taken outside. I used different movements to create the various effects. The shutter speed was 0.5 sec.
Ann Bollen
Mucking about a torch and created this...
Yvonne Jevons
Taken on a chilly evening this is a night scene with a mini road/pavement sweeper at work in South Queensferry
SPORTS
All sports include movement of some sort or another. It was lovely to see a selection of sporting activities photographed under the movement theme too.
Sue Rafferty
I used to love watching the yacht events when we were staying in Cornwall. Sharing these happy memories before I make room for editing my latest images from the Outer Hebrides.
Hayata Takeshita
Here are some people having a different kind of sunset sail. I get out about once a week these days. I saw these kites in the air during golden hour on my last trip.
Peter Grant
A few images on the theme of movement from the past inspired by yesterday evening's webinar.
Sue Rafferty
We were lucky to have the Tour of Britain cycle race come through our village last year, unfortunately it coincided with an almighty thunderstorm. I set my chair up in sheltered spot to wait for them. The road was lined with people and they got the greatest reception as the passed despite everyone being thoroughly soaked to the skin!
BIRDS
Freezing birds both in flight and perched proved to be a fun subject to explore too. This really allows us to see the beauty that photography brings to freeze moments in time that are hard for us to see and truly appreciate with the eye.
Darrell Oakden
I took this Marsh Harrier last week at RSPB Fairburn Ings it was moving pretty quickly.
Simon Temlett
The auks coming back from their fishing trips.
Darrell Oakden
My recent trip to Bempton Cliffs.
Simon Temlett
Spent a brilliant few hours yesterday at a local nature reserve, initially just listening to the almost deafening marsh frogs. Then, after about an hour and a half and a deserved Kitkat, patience was rewarded and the kingfisher turned up. He spent a good 3/4 hour diving and taking sticklebacks.
Aileen O’Keeffe
Inspired by Kim's YouTube Video - some images from my visit to the Saltee Islands Co. Wexford.
Wanda-Lynn Searles
After today's webinar I decided to post these images for the challenge of movement. The Barred Owl I really love how it turned out and thanks to Kim for the advice on cropping the image to portrait.
CLOUDS AND WEATHER
Watching the clouds change and weather fronts come and go can be such a calming and mindful thing to do. A few members enjoyed looking at the sky and watching it change and move around them.
Mel Harmer
I made a pact with myself that I want to contribute more to this month's challenge, so I went to the beach this evening to view the sunset. The clouds were on the move and it was a bit like the calm before the storm! This was a 2 second exposure. There are a couple of barely visible blurry people just before the first light.
Brian Nicholson
Absolutely stunning light, the Firth of Forth illuminated by the light .on a monitor you can see the Wallace Monument in Stirling in the left of the image above the Kincardine Bridge
Mel Harmer
I was working at my desk this afternoon and glanced out the window to see some quite unusual clouds filling the sky! The sun was setting out the front and this was the view from the East over my back fence. The clouds were moving so fast it was hard to keep up. I was quite amazed by the pink tinges in some of them.
INTENTIONAL CAMERA MOVEMENT AND MULTIPLE EXPOSURES
The beauty of photography is that there is so many ways to use our cameras to create images. After sharing the world of intentional camera movement and multiple exposures in Junes webinar, many members gave this a go for themselves. The beauty of doing this style of photography is that no two images turn out the same, as you can see below.
Yvonne Jevons
I haven’t tried icm before and tried it in the garden. Photo is of the pink flowers in first image, then with camera movement for the second image
Denise Savage
Playing around with options of movement.
Barbara Voules
These are the ICM photographs I took at a workshop on Saturday, the pink photos were taken inside with window light and the other two were taken outside. I used different movements to create the various effects. The shutter speed was 0.5 sec.
Kathy Wolfe
Added path blur to the South Carolina sea shore
Alex Gutierrez
Here's my photo for this challenge.
Wendy McCallum
Tried ICM for the first time this morning. Just a quick try mind. I would love to try this again outdoors. Love the effect. Mind, didn't go for too much movement - but just enough to make it look a bit surreal. Reminds me of the feeling you get watching TV and someone has been bumped over the head with a vase and is just coming-to!!!
Valerie Huggins
The subtle sway of blades of grass in the light of the evening sun.
Carmel Morris
Morning walk in my local woods - ICM using Slow Shutter App
Tricia Wood
I’ve just caught up with Kim’s Movement webinar and inspired by the idea of using Multiple Exposures to demonstrate movement, this image combined an ICM image with a static image in Photosplit app on my phone.. fun to play with!
Sue Rafferty
Never dreamed that I would love experimenting with ICM the way I do, this image is from Luskentyre today, looking over to Tarensay. The father and son were having the most wonderful time in the sea and although they are very close to the edge I want to leave them in as including them adds to the memory of today.
Christopher Battles
The mud season we just got through can be a dull color pallet - I caught this as the camera turned accidentally during a long exposure in a lightning storm! It was the best photo of the day and it opened my eyes to capturing mud season. If you look close there are fence posts along the roadside.
Wendy McCallum
We went for a drive and stopped outside Boddam overlooking the cliffs where I captured this image. Taken using ICM in camera. Added the seagulls in Photoshop (Michael Norton effect inspired effect). Loved the wild clifftop flowers - they looked so pretty.
COMBINING STATIC AND MOVING SUBJECTS
Combining static objects with moving subjects is a great way to showcase movement in an image. Many members experimented with this, creating images with a sense of time and place.
Tricia Wood
A few days in deepest Dorset last week and a compulsory ride on the steam train from Corfe Castle to Swanage .. it was brilliant fun & reminiscent of days gone by. This snap, very much a postcard type of scene, taken from the bridge above the station somehow captured the movement imo.. but I highly recommend the trip if anyone’s down this way!
Sue Rafferty
I thought I'd share this image that went wrong because of movement. I was looking at the lines of the pier which was busy and thought I'd use a slow shutter speed to get some bluring in the people. Used a tripod, the focus on the rail was lovely and sharp but made a basic error, I failed to take account of the vibration of people walking on the pier so while the movement in the people works my pier is fuzzy
Dave Varo
A slight hint of movement. This photo always makes me think of lying in the long grass in a meadow, which is exactly how this one was made, in a meadow 5 minutes from my door. The weather here today is pretty much identical, but this is from the back catalogue.
Kevin Railsback
Normally most of the fireflies I see just blink on and off. The Blue Ghost firefly however lights up for several seconds so it’s easy to see their path through the forest at night.
Darrell Oakden
Here is a picture I took in a rain storm in Italy.
Garry Platt
I took this image about 3 years ago so it wasn’t recently shot for this month’s challenge. But, I’m claiming bragging rights on it as I won the Smithsonian with this photograph. It was taken during the Edinburgh Fringe, I was sitting on the steps in the middle aisle of the Pleasance Central Theatre with a 70-200 zoom hand held and resting on my drawn up knees. The exposure was 1.5 seconds and the central dancer held this pose while the rest were in movement. The minute I looked at the image on the back of the camera I knew I had something special.
Brian Nicholson
This morning I was at Barns Ness Lighthouse, East Lothain for sunrise, as I was framing up a composition a flock of geese appeared and with no time to adjust my shutter speed I rather like the abstract nature of their movement....a wee bonus for the monthly challenge
FROZEN MOVEMENT
Below are some images created to show a moment in time - freezing moving subjects to tell a story.
May Hamilton
Currently getting blown away on a chilly beach trip to Scourie in the North West. Tide is miles out and this poor sea snail is trying to get to wetter sand/rock pools.
Simon Temlett
Made quite a bit of mess in my office after work tonight experimenting with water drop photography it's still warm so it should dry out by Monday...
Tricia Wood
Inspired by the blowing poppies in Kim’s thought provoking video yesterday I was attracted to the frivolity of these coneflowers seemingly dancing in the wind with gay abandon.
“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like it's heaven on earth.” Mark Twain.
Wanda-Lynn Searles
My first image for movement is of our American Flag. Happened to catch the flag blowing in the wind and thought that would be a good one.
Glenn Sowerby
This year set out with a mindset of plenty of plants to get more bees into the garden. It appears to be working so far.
105mm lens on macro. Chasing the bees from one flower to the next !
Neill Windebank
ZOOM BURSTS
A fun way to create movement in images can be to zoom in or out while you press the shutter to create a zoom burst. Below are a few images created using this technique.
Yvonne Jevons
I made this with a zoom lens and during exposure operated the zoom to create this effect. Took several attempts and was happy with this weird one of something rather innocuous and mundane
Denise Savage
Making use of ICM and letting my "what if . . ." thinking take me on a mental wander. Was good wondering and playing. I have some others from another play time where I thought about movement differently.
Ann Bollen
Practising zoom bursts today. This is one of my attempts...
DIGITAL MOVEMENT
Lastly - with digital technology advancing, one member used the blur effect in Photoshop to create this image. It was great to see what can be possible both behind the camera and in post-processing.
Peter Grant
NOT real Movement and not to everyone's taste, but trying out the Photoshop path blur effect on an image from Bow Fiddle Rock.
June’s theme of movement was great to explore, offering so many opportunities and subjects to be explored. Along with the photography, the community were also invited to think about how they move when they’re out with their cameras. Photography, for many, gives them an incentive to get outdoors and move around. Not long does creating movement in their photos allow them to be creative and connect with the world, it also allows them to move their bodies and experience many health benefits as a result.
Thank you to all the community members for being a part of the community and engaging so well with Junes challenge.
