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Picture of the Week (POTW) # 492 - Covering period 15 to 28 February 2018 - PentaxForums.com
The irregular planting of the clipped hedge in the first photo catches my eye every time I drive past. There’s something self-effacing about it that reminds me of a photographic exhibition reviewed in the Gaurdian called “I’m not here”. I found it following a link someone had posted somewhere here on the forum. The hedge seems to me to be like a pair of hands held palm outwards, moving irregularly side to side to hide someone’s face. The photo was taken with the Super Takumar 35mm f3.5 at f8.
The tightly stacked terraces emphasising the steep slope to the tall verticals of the church above are what caught my eye in the second photo. I went back the next day and took this photo with a Cosina Cosinon W 24mm f2.8 and a Mir orange contrast filter.
The grass heads I caught isolated from their backgrounds by the early morning sun with the SMC Pentax 35-70mm f4 zoom. The butterfly was taken with a TOU Five Star 200mm f4.5 from about 4 or so metres, and the Stock with the Industar 61 50mm f2.8 macro. I’d actually taken this picture thinking I’d try it out in black and white, but have used a preset, after making adjustments in the black and white module of Topaz Studio, called “luminosity”. Not exactly sure what it does, but looks OK on some pics. Those hairs actually are growing out of the petals!