After an active morning, with a lot of poultry work and watering, we had lunch and settled down to some serious outdoor education with a trek in the woods and the making of nature memory sticks. I would say “and picking blackberries” but someone has got there before us, for the second year in a row. The sticks are on willow, but despite repeated soaking most of them stayed defiantly unbent.
Here are the results. They look pretty good in real life, though possibly not quite so good in the photos. The sticks, that is. The group, of course, when faced with a camera look shifty, bored or anywhere but the camera. That’s what suggested the title. I’ve just deleted about half the group shots because people moved, looked away, closed their eyes or opened their mouths unsuitably wide. The surviving shots then needed weeding for ones where they have greenery sprouting from unexpected places.
As you can see, it wasn’t the most successful of group portraits – long on character but short on technical skill is a kind way of putting it.
Part of it was my fault, I suppose, as I kept asking for different sorts of cheese to encourage them to pay attention. It may not have worked, as shouts of “Boursin!” and a discussion on paneer proved not to be advantageous to the job in hand. So, by the miracle of coincidence and cheap digital photography, here are some pictures.
I have taken to photographing people’s creations with just their hands in shot… it’s much more reliable and no one seems to object to their hands appearing on my blog in the way that they would with an unflattering portrait. My latest felt-making pictures are a case in point.
Good point. Will make life simpler.
A fun post
Thanks. Hope you are getting the garden back into shape now.
We are, Thanks
My daughter was always asked to say ‘sausages’ when she had her photograph taken at school. It seemed to work better than cheese.
I will try that next time. ;[)