Datchet by The Blonde

My favourite shot was this abstract one of leaves in the water in the river Thames, there was something surreal and a little spooky about them floating completely preserved just under the surface of the water. I faffed about with the cropping a few times, initially leaving some river bank and  tree branches in, but then decided I wanted it to be deliberately hard to see at first what the subject was. A little touch up in the edit to saturate the colour a little and I was happy with it. I am gradually learning not to always go with the "obvious" shot. I learned at photographic college that 98.7%* of photographs are shot in landscape format at eye level. And that even a small change in your height, position or viewpoint when composing can sometimes make the shot work on a whole other level. So don't be afraid to do what I did here: lay down full length on the riverbank tow path dangling my expensive camera two inches above the water, either you drown your equipment, and start drawing a picture for the insurance claim form, OR you get a shot no one else has :) **

Here a few more favourites I picked out from the shoot:

*Clearly I made that statistic up for effect, I mean how on earth would you measure it? 
**Ok so I stretched the truth just a little on that one too, I mean I had my new jeans on, I wasn't about to put them in contact with the "bird embellished" nature of the tow path, but you get my point, I did change my viewpoint, to change the shot entirely *grin*