Lens-Artists PC: Car window frames

• Manja Maksimovič

This week I was a bit apprehensive regarding our Lens-Artists photo task. You see, I feel my frames in a fully non-scientific, let’s call it excessive way. Let’s have some limits, I said, and looked through the car window.

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I like to make the viewer unsure of what to focus on. I positively thrive on it. Also, I don’t see any problem with Patti’s first horse photo. True, I prefer the second one, but if you want to see the full statue as it is positioned, the first one does the job. I might well take a photo just like that one. Hm… is there a lesson here, I wonder.

Thus I had a bit of a scare contemplating which photos to post. Chances are high they won’t make a best practice example. But since this is my blog and my rules, and nobody is paying for anything, I can do whatever I wish! How liberating, said I and started to compile photos taken out of the side car window (with a couple of cheats).

Most of these were taken just around the corner here in lower Tuscany, but some are also from Slovenia.

A window is a limit, it prevents me from coming closer (I know, there is also the zoom), and it makes for a great cinemascope. Welcome to Manja Movie.

  • Uncle found some poppies. This was in May.
  • Right here in December: Lake Burano and the sea behind it. If you swim long enough, you reach Corsica.
  • The only snow in six years. End of February.
  • Same day. It lasted till about 1 pm.
  • The same canal in April.
  • And in November.
  • Half an hour later.
  • The sun really bothers me in this photo, but I love these alien droppings. It must be June.
  • Same grass in April. This and the previous seven photos taken during the drive to the beach (or back).
  • This is the other direction, towards the hills. November 2016.
  • November 2017. Capalbio upon the hill on the left.
  • Care to guess the month? May.
  • Up north I spotted somebody hopping around. It was Northern Bald Ibis, tagged. It was January.
  • Porto Ercole in February.
  • My friend and the mill on the Orbetello lagoon. June.
  • My sister and Maremma countryside. April.
  • A hop to Slovenia. Amore between Lake Bohinj and Lake Bled. The Julian Alps presiding.
  • Right there. The typical Slovenian feature: hayrack.
  • Mother and the boats at the St. Bartholomew canal on the Slovenian coast.
  • Lower Carniola a.k.a. Dolenjska region, Slovenia.
  • Between one and the other, Italy and Slovenia, often.
  • I had to open the door. That trash can is ill-positioned, but these are Terme di Saturnia.
  • A cheat: rearviewmirror between Rome and home.
  • Another cheat: Pitigliano. Always a sight.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Patti at P. A. Moed: Filling the frame

30 thoughts on “Lens-Artists PC: Car window frames”

  1. I love how you fill the frame using the car door frame. So clevery, Manja! Beautiful selections, I especially love the rearviewmirror between Rome and home, well done!

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  8. Hi, Manja. I love your frames! What a great idea. Your shot of the dog is one of my favorites, here. And I think you’re right about the “rules.” They are made to be broken once we’ve mastered them in order to create our unique “visions.” Your scenery shots are terrific. I love the autumn countryside shot.

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      1. Haha! I promise, our earth isn’t like that, our trees aren’t like that, our buildings… no poppies around here… Probably get closer to that in California, but still not like there!

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