I am back after the holiday break!
E 'was a hot summer and tiring ... I live in a seaside town .. but this year we had a bathing prohibition long due to a damaged sewer.
is not easy to organize your day, especially if you have children in the family ... the beach is a nice relief! They can not bathe But we did ... desist from going after many afternoons spent in drawing (at home and in the studio is very hot) ... to cook (this will not always want to do it!) to do the ... "leche-vitrine "(as the French say ... it means" lick "the windows ... see that ... without buying anything!) .. but this can only be done if not too hot ... I invented .. The Photo Safari! (I must say that the choice of the word "SAFARI" influenced sull'accendere their interest!)
For promotion we gave our child a small, low cost digital ... .. but it's good photographs (it was not perhaps Cartier-Bresson said that ".. it is not the camera that makes the picture .. but the eye behind it "?!).
With this modern technology is reasonably cheap, you can do many tests without wasting money, because you print only the "good". I discovered that almost all children have one.
So I'm playing early morning with a group of girls at a time of Hanbury Gardens (gardens rich in trees and flowers from all over the world). They are after Ventimiglia, near the border with France. But Safari can do at any angle nature, and also the city itself can be a nice background!
I thought it was fun opportunity to teach how to use digital camera and, above all, to frame compositions (and I have more occasion to speak of trees, flowers, of the Natural World! .. not easy to be heard about these things outside of school!).
Some of their photos.
The visit is the end of July. We left early to avoid the hot hours and we have been out a few hours ... but it was very funny!!
Try ...
means of photography who will notice all the flaws of the photos ... especially in the latter, in which the fountain was mercilessly cut to power to enter into the picture the fish and the beautiful around plants and, in accordance with my suggestion, "center the subject" ... in this case the dragon fountain !!!)..
I am convinced that, given the enthusiasm - and that is what counts - the next time will do better ... as it says my companion blog Tina Day: "We grow wings in flight."
Greetings to all friends who visit me and this time I have a little 'overlooked. .. With the return to be this autumn!
you soon! Ps in the photo
initial entry of the gardens seen from the bottom of the first steps down (the picture is mine, while the others are the girls who accompanied me) pps
my girls are 10-11 years .. but I think the experience can be done with children even younger ... depends on their interest in the thing ...
