So I’ve spent the last 40 minutes casting about for ideas for the next “assignment” on Digital Photography School. The theme this week is “Wisdom”. I’ve got some ideas now, but nothing I can take pictures of. I didn’t want to do anything too staged. There are a few pictures of books in various positions on the thread already. I did think about the timeless wisdom in a child’s eyes, and I do have several pictures where Micah is peering deep into your soul on my machine. The catch is that you have to have taken the picture during the assignment period and Micah’s already asleep. Ish. Mostly asleep. A little bit awake. But it’s late, so let’s pretend I don’t hear her playing with her dolls.
I’m looking around the living room when the fireplace kicks on. When we first moved into our house, we purchased a fancy new wood-pellet burning stove insert for our non-functional fireplace. It’s super fancy and efficient. Heck, it has it’s own thermostat and automatically turns on and off when the ambient temperature of the room reaches the right point. (If only it could haul the 40 lb bags out of the basement when the hopper runs low.) It’s basically a pellet-burning furnace that you put in your living room, but nice to look at.
As I said, the fireplace kicked on. It’s Wisconsin, so the evenings are still cold. As are some of the days, even in the “spring time”.
I looked at the flames and I thought: I wonder if I could photograph that. With a little bit of trial and error and the eventual drift out of “Aperture Priority Mode” into “Shutter Priority Mode”, I was able to catch the flames as they danced out of the firepot.
I got a couple of good shots, one of which I included at the top of this post. I like to look at the images and try to find the pattern. In this one I see a rose. Or maybe a reclining lady.
This is pretty cool, if I do say so myself.
