Week 23: Annie Get Your Glasses

camera motion blur

I enjoy doing this motion blur type of thing...both when the object is moving and when the camera is moving.  This week was all about the camera moving.  I tried a few different things - panning, moving the camera in different directions and zooming during the exposure.  It is very difficult.  I am just not very steady with the camera at the best of times let alone when I am moving at the same time.  I just looked at the numbers on my photos and I see that I took 240 photos and kept about ten of them - that's how hard this is!  Sometimes the motion blur looks good and sometimes it just looks like a bad photo.  Sometimes there isn't really something nicely in focus but it doesn't matter and sometimes it does matter.  Anyway, here are some of the ones I decided to keep.

I popped over to Maxine's earlier this evening to drop off a lemon loaf that didn't come properly out of the pan so I couldn't put it in the bake sale tomorrow (she bought the less-than-perfect loaf) and her lupines were in perfect bloom.  I think this is my favourite of the photos this week.

Fergus came out to play.  I don't love this photo but it was the best of the bunch.  Like I said, this is very difficult.

On Thursday I actually had time to have lunch in Blind River so I headed with my pulled pork sub (yay, it's back!) to a little park and played a bit.

This was in the parking lot of the park but it reminded me of driving on the highways during the summer...AKA construction season.

One of my bleeding hearts...

And my Mother's Day pansies.

Okay, now go shake out your eyes so you can focus properly again.