2/52 - White Space

The themes for PainttheMoon.net's week were white space or everyday tools. With the amazing post she wrote on white space and the positioning of the subject I wanted to play with that idea and ended up taking quite a few pictures this go round. It's one of the first times I thought about both of those, without it being a portrait. This picture of my squirrel friend was one of the last pics I took and one of my most favorite of the entire bunch.

These were the first pictures I took. I was watching the window replacer across the street through my window and was amazed at how blue the sky was. And then I saw my poor little tree with it's little buds sprouting before it's time. I wonder what will happen when spring really comes. I knew I had to go out and take a few pictures before the next freeze kills them. I like the way the upper branches in the first picture were out of focus, but I think the branch in the second picture is better placement. I think.



The next shot was of my lunch on Wednesday. I wanted a white space background that was dark. It seemed ironic and fun in some way. Remember, I'm new at this.


 

And then came the pictures of my squirrel friend on Thursday. I played with the placement of him in the shot, and the angle of the roof, as in the first and last are parallel to the frame, but the rest are more accurate to real life. He sat so nicely for so long while I took the shots. My favorite was the one I caught where he was looking right at me, at the top of the page. Truly, I do love it. Mostly because I don't feel as if I had a thing to do with it. I simply feel lucky to have been the one to take that picture.

Thank you Paintthemoon.net for your inspiration!