This year, my regular walk along Queen Creek Wash in Gilbert turned up road runners, a spoon, chuparosa bushes, a glory of palo verde, geckos, desert cottontails, and a wind spinner in a yard backing onto the path.
I’m starting to experiment with effects possible with slow shutter speeds. To do better with this one, I think I’d need a neutral density filter (to avoid overexposing while leaving the shutter open long enough to make streaks of the coloured plastic circles on the vanes of the spinner) and I should use a tripod (which I don’t carry on my multi-mile walks. Go figure.).
I’d also want a less distracting background. I’m sure the owners of this house will get right on that for me. But this is a start, showing me what can be done.
Love the abstract nature of this photo. Since I never saw the original site and don’t know what you were envisioning, I enjoy the background as part of the effect.
Judith – I think I was trying to copy/evoke a night photo of a ferris wheel that I saw in a photography book. Not in the daytime without a special lens. I think it’s just a bit busy for my eye.
The joys of abstract photography.
I still have real issues with moving water to get it “right”.
Jim R – Yes. For me, I’m still at the stage of taking 30 shots and hoping one of them will look like something.