I’m a little late getting this post up.  Yesterday just disappeared so fast.  The weekend was interrupted from its usual schedule so we ended up having to go out last night to finish up our normal errands.  Anyway, day 3 of my new journey didn’t quite go as planned.

I was looking to get out during lunch with my camera but the weather was not in the mood to cooperate.  Seeing how my camera does not have and weather protection and I was without a method to keep it dry I was limited to exploring when I got home.  This limited my options due to the shift back into standard time.  I would only have 30 – 40 minutes after work before the light would escape me.

Luckily for me I had a fairy routine task to occupy my mind at work after lunch which afforded me the time to think about the image I wanted to capture.  I was still fascinated by the fungus I found on the fence rail yesterday and thought a nice macro image would be a great addition to my project.  As soon as I pulled into the garage I grabbed the camera off the front seat and went hunting for that macro.  The late day combined with heavy cloud cover worked against me and required a much longer exposure than I could manage by hand and I didn’t have time to run back for the tripod.  Next time I’ll be more aware of my environment.

Thinking I would be unhappy with the pictures I took of the fungus I switched to plan B.  One of the photographers I found on Google+, Tom McLaughlan, developed a style he has termed ‘ministract.’  It is a combination of minimal and abstract photography.  I really like what you can do with it and my second choice for my project was to get a picture in that style.  Here is what I created…

After a few failed attempts with ideas I had thought of at work I ‘discovered’ this image while sitting down to think about my next idea.  The wicker chairs in the breezeway had some great color and wood grain, especially against the white of the door.  This is a smaller crop of a section of the chair side.  I liked it and it became my day three picture.

Here are a couple of the pictures I did manage to salvage of the fungus on the fence rail.  The first is a straight up macro which I converted to black & white.  The cloudy sky wasn’t helping my light situation and the normal color of the fungus was lost but I think the structure and texture show through.