Every few months I meet my friend, Nan Dickson, in Salado and we go with our cameras out to the home of Lonnie Edwards.
Lonnie collects everything. Everything. His property is a feast for the eyes, but it can be overwhelming. It’s always a challenge to capture what we see there because there’s just so much.
Nan describes it as a visual exercise. She says it helps her kind of evaluate a situation and pick out the things she wants to focus on.
We went out to Lonnie’s for a little while, then had some lunch. At lunch we got in to a conversation about photography iPhone apps and before we knew it, we were in an iPhone photo challenge. I proposed we take half an hour of our afternoon (though it turned out to be much longer) and only shoot with our phones. It was a fun challenge because we not only had to single out a good situation, but we had to use a small fixed lens and we were limited to our app settings. We both used the Hipstamatic camera app because it has a few more options than some of the others.
Here are some of my favorites:
In the end, we both got great shots and were able to stretch our composition muscles and our visual limits.
Click here to visit Nan’s blog.