Family Day

Now and then, some of my pictures appear in the public realm (ie not my blog). I'm always excited when this happens. I like seeing my work in other places besides my blog, Facebook, and Flickr - as long as my watermark is intact, of course.

Naturally, then, I was very excited to hear that my sister wanted to use some of my pictures that we took last fall. My niece's school needed them for a Family Day piece. The fact that my sister thought that these pictures were good enough to show to a bunch of strangers was great:





You may think to yourself - what is wrong with my confidence? Nothing! It's just that as someone who considers myself a macro photographer, it's nice to know that the rest of my work is useable. I'd rather be a specialist and focus on nothing but orchids, but reality sometimes takes me in other directions. I therefore have to make sure all of my work meets a minimum standard - and it did here. Macro and abstracts will always be my absolute strength, but I can do these other things if I need to. I'd rethink this strategy if I were doing this on a professional basis, but for now, it suits me.

Looking at these again, I plan to do even better next time. The first one could use some work with the lighting - it was very late in the day. I think the second is just fine as is. :)

Till tomorrow!