The good thing about it is my actual living vicinity is surrounded by these graveyards. I don't find it creepy at all since I honestly don't see them as filled with dead people. More like landscapes. Maybe it's weird but that's just how I feel.
I finally had the courage to hike the mountains a bit, just to take pictures. It's not that simple, you know? These are private areas and I might offend someone just by being there. Let alone take pictures and doing crazy stuff. But these cemeteries nearby aren't as showy as I hoped. Most of them are just mounds of land and nothing more. And I'm struggling getting a good shot of them with not as much as an interesting background. I gave up and maybe visit other graves with some gravestones, next time. I still want to take pictures of these.
Moving on, I noticed this place was untouched for a long time. It's all clean and the grass doesn't need trimming, really. But what I noticed are the abundance of flowers and random greens all around. Now, I'm not really into these cute cute flowers. But for some reason, I was drawn to them. I guess that's also because I had no choice but to make the best of what I can get. And since I'm not interested in botany, I find these strange-looking plants quite fascinating. It's just... different.
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| Genes of Twins I saw a lot of these blue/purple things scattered and in groups. But I'm having quite a hard time getting good shots of them. The one thing I want to do is show some hairlight. In my eyes, it looks magical. But on my camera, it's not satisfying. In fact, this is the best I can do right now. |
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| Haze I haven't done this technique where you use the sun's haze. I never had the chance and to be frank, I don't see any point of using it. That's until now. In this image, I was imagining, "What if I woke up greeted by these lovely things?" So that's what I'm trying to show here. |
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| Dominance I remember I always liked dandelions when I was a kid. This flower reminded me of them. But it's a strange strange version. More scraggly yet it stands out more. The one behind it looks different too. It's more cotton-like and not-so complete. So I tried to make this particular flower the dominant one amongst its crowd. |
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| Eye Lashes From a different view, it reminds me of those false eyelashes worn by drag-queens. |
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| Friendly Tentacles I was composing this shot to show another flower when this bug just popped in. I didn't even notice it was there until I saw it on my computer. Truth, this was a challenging shot especially that I'm shooting in manual mode. It was very windy and under mottled light. I wouldn't even post this picture if it wasn't for the bug. |
There's a real cause of this flower picture taking this day. I scouted this place before. The sun was setting and everything was looking okay. Not harshly bright but still enough light to see things. I saw a bunch of yellow roses in front of a grave. I was amazed how it was arranged and thought, "How lucky is this grave to have such a bunch of roses grow in front of it?" So I had this idea of taking pictures of plants that are wild-grown yet naturally arranged as if it was intended by a gardener/landscapist. That day, I looked around to see if there are more like this. Indeed there are. Some chrysanthemum and other stuff. I had everything set for the next time I come to take pictures.
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| Deception I was happily clicking away and took many shots of this particular bouquet of roses. I love how there's some dead grass, trailing away from it, as if ribbons made by nature for that extra touch. Soon after I uploaded it to my computer and zoomed in for a closer look, I saw something odd. The petals have these extra strings coming out of them. It was a fake, plastic, rose after all. |
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