Sunday at West Dean

The weekend is slowly coming together, there was a lot of learning yesterday and I went home having taken a lot in and was rather tired. It was a nice kind of tired having spent yesterday afternoon out in the gardens with the camera. The photography was quite challenging with very bright sun making seeing what I was taking hard to see on the camera screen. However some good pictures were taken and it was a stunning october afternoon with the colours on the trees accentuated in the low autumn sun.
























Jacqui, the photography tutor set us some interesting challenges the first of which involved only taking 6 pictures, this was surprisingly hard. I learnt that including the sky in a picture is not always a good thing, as well as where the macro button is on my camera which enables me to take much better close ups of flowers. The next couple of pictures show this much improved skill!




















Another task that we have been given is to pick a vista and then take the same view at different times of the day. I havent yet taken my lunchtime picture and of course the weather is very different today to yesterday. We have gone from bright sun and blue sky to grey and damp. However this has been interesting in itself as the colours of flowers seem to be brighter today.