Last weeks ‘depth of field’ didn’t seem to catch people’s creativity.  It must have been a bit too technical and not enough “something”.  With recent flooding I semi expected a picture of a field “THIS DEEP” in water.  Here are the submissions, which seems to be just me at the moment.

I created a simple grid of bolts to show the technical aspects of ‘depth of field’

“Depth of Field of Bolts” Photo By: Me

UPDATE: 7/27/2010. Chris submitted his photo.

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other good photos.

I have known what this weeks theme was all weekend.  Chris is away from the computer mine so the “Theme Machine” was powered up last Friday.  I have to say I’m excited over this one.

“Reflections”

It’s a photo with a reflection and the best way to describe it is with SEARCH & SEARCH2.  It’s that simple.  Most of the reflection photos in the search were of water, but not all of them. The creative doors are blown off the hinges for this one.  Look at the two searches and study the photos for ideas…  If you can’t figure out something then take a picture of yourself in a mirror .

The calm photos for last week seem to be augmented by the huge storm that blew through town. The trees were blown around and several were knocked down but luckily they missed my cars and the only damage seems to be my gutter work and back. Here are last weeks photos:

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other good photos.

A bit of a psychomanteum for me. I stare into the cast iron pot of water with only a candle to light the way. I see the face of something… but what is it? I do not know. angel or demon?

Chris stopped by to run the machine since I was still hurting from my fall out of a tree. This theme is full of depth.

“Depth of Field”

Depth of field is a photography term relating to the distance of focus from the point of the photo. WHAT?!?! This is best described as a point in focus while things in front and behind are out of focus. The smaller the depth of field the smaller area of sharpness and a larger area out of focus. A larger depth of field the larger the area of sharpness and smaller out of focus. WIKIPEDIA has a nice description of it. GOOGLE shows many photos of it. As usual this is always up to your interpretation. Don’t let it worry you to much, most people do this all the time and don’t even know it

A slight miscommunication caused a delay in the PB&J delivery. I promise same day delivery not 30 minutes or less. Here are last weeks deliveries.

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other good photos.

"Modern Communication" Photo By: Lee

"Retro Communication" Photo By: ME

I grabbed the theme machine’s dial and keep spinning it up and down. This aggressive spinning was do to last weeks extreme stress, stress and more stress. This was the flavor of the week at the computer mine. As Chris waited for the theme to pop up I just keep spinning it until suddenly the machine yelled back,

“CALM”

yourself man, calm! I’m glad this weeks theme is calm because I could use some. A calm photo follows another theme we had which was soothing. Calm can be soothing just like soothing can be calm but neither has to be. Think calm thoughts when you take this photo. This is another one best left up to your interpretation with some ideas from a Google search.

My recent trip to the market yielded a very nice PB&J… I took a photo of my pantry to show off the many Smuckers choices available for the PB&J. OK…, I didn’t really take a photo of my pantry, unless you believe I have prices listed on my shelves. I did however feel a bit odd taking the photo with my large SLR and decided to take the photo with my daughters box camera. I don’t know why I felt odd considering I carry my camera all over the place and take photos whenever and wherever. Somehow I felt security wouldn’t be watching me, as much, if I used the box camera.  After all, I didn’t want to get thrown out of my favorite jelly supply market. I did run into a problem. My daughter left on trip the next morning taking the camera with her. That delayed me in getting my photo and the blog up. No more jabbering on. Here are last weeks market photos.

Chris’s market container:

Photo By: Christopher D. Bennett. Go check out his website www.photography139.com for many other good photos.

Lee’s Veggies:

"Mirrored Veggie" Photo By: Lee

My J supply for the PB&J:

"The Jelly" Photo By: Me

Since I was running late. I ignored everybody and kicked the machine. The machine quickly reminded my that it’s all about:

“Communication”

I’m not sure what the group was thinking when we communicated about the 52 week list and agreed communication was ok. After searching the web and consulting a few books. I came to the conclusion that I was thinking about it too much. From a simply family photo to an elaborate photo shoot, photography is all about communication.  If you do a GOOGLE search you will find a mix of either photos portraying literal communication or a communicating photo. This one is best left up to your interpretation. Communicate with a few friends for some communication ideas.