Leah Murray
Je trouve mon inspiration dans les détails silencieux de la nature et de la vie quotidienne, des fleurs qui brillent sous la pluie et des rues d'automne jusqu'aux bois d'hiver. À travers ma photographie, je célèbre les couleurs, les textures et les saisons qui changent autour de moi à Surrey, en Colombie-Britannique.
Rosalind Philips Photography
The variety of textures is what draws me into this piece.
Leah Murray
Thanks - that variety was what made me make it. Everyone kept suggesting to me that winter was bland, boring, and not much other than featureless snow - but I have never seen it that way.
Rosalind Philips Photography
I agree with you. There is always beauty in the ordinary. In fact, I believe that the ordinary is always extraordinary.
Leah Murray
Not everyone sees that, I think. I've always loved the little details that make me slow down and amble through an image rather than racing by toward the next one. I suspect from your work that this might be the case with you also?
Rosalind Philips Photography
Absolutely. I am just as content to spend hours observing and photographing a robin in my yard as I am to go to Maine and spend hours photographing and observing puffins. My friend Teri taught me how to look for the micro worlds in the moss and lichen on wooden railings. It can take me hours to walk by 10 ft of wooden railings.
Leah Murray
I drive most of my hiking buddies crazy because I get lost in the little details so easily: good thing I don't mind going by myself most of the time! When I can't go outside because there's a flood or wind warning, I drag a couple of potted plants inside and look for things to shoot on them. My poor cat figured out that if he posed for photos with anything in the yard or household, he'd get my undivided attention for a few seconds, plus a treat. I'm embarrassed to admit that I exploited his lust for attention shamelessly!
Rosalind Philips Photography
That's wonderful Leah. I wonder if my cat, Shadow, can be bribed in a similar manner. I embrace tabletop and waterdrop photography during our coldish rainy season. I also steal as much clear time as I can for astrophotography. I like that I can continue to work on the same image week after week. Sometimes it takes a couple of months to get 16 hours of data. Surrey isn't all that far from Olympia, WA. Maybe we can meet sometime for a nice day of photography. We can just saunter along.
Leah Murray
Almost all of the cats I've had in my lifetime have been fully bribe-friendly as soon as they figured out bribes were involved, so Shadow might well be much more participatory in the process than you've discovered so far! I've been working on some still life stuff this fall so far, and may get more into that once I get my household move over with next month. Pretty much everything is operating around that for the time being - urgh!!
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Rosalind Philips Photography
The variety of textures is what draws me into this piece.
Leah Murray
Thanks - that variety was what made me make it. Everyone kept suggesting to me that winter was bland, boring, and not much other than featureless snow - but I have never seen it that way.
Rosalind Philips Photography
I agree with you. There is always beauty in the ordinary. In fact, I believe that the ordinary is always extraordinary.
Leah Murray
Not everyone sees that, I think. I've always loved the little details that make me slow down and amble through an image rather than racing by toward the next one. I suspect from your work that this might be the case with you also?
Rosalind Philips Photography
Absolutely. I am just as content to spend hours observing and photographing a robin in my yard as I am to go to Maine and spend hours photographing and observing puffins. My friend Teri taught me how to look for the micro worlds in the moss and lichen on wooden railings. It can take me hours to walk by 10 ft of wooden railings.
Leah Murray
I drive most of my hiking buddies crazy because I get lost in the little details so easily: good thing I don't mind going by myself most of the time! When I can't go outside because there's a flood or wind warning, I drag a couple of potted plants inside and look for things to shoot on them. My poor cat figured out that if he posed for photos with anything in the yard or household, he'd get my undivided attention for a few seconds, plus a treat. I'm embarrassed to admit that I exploited his lust for attention shamelessly!
Rosalind Philips Photography
That's wonderful Leah. I wonder if my cat, Shadow, can be bribed in a similar manner. I embrace tabletop and waterdrop photography during our coldish rainy season. I also steal as much clear time as I can for astrophotography. I like that I can continue to work on the same image week after week. Sometimes it takes a couple of months to get 16 hours of data. Surrey isn't all that far from Olympia, WA. Maybe we can meet sometime for a nice day of photography. We can just saunter along.
Leah Murray
Almost all of the cats I've had in my lifetime have been fully bribe-friendly as soon as they figured out bribes were involved, so Shadow might well be much more participatory in the process than you've discovered so far! I've been working on some still life stuff this fall so far, and may get more into that once I get my household move over with next month. Pretty much everything is operating around that for the time being - urgh!!