The theme of this week’s “Christian Photographers on Facebook” photo contest is Silhouettes. I usually enter one or two photos in each week’s contest, but this week I entered three of my favorites. After learning once again to spell silhouette, the real value (for me) lies in the other entries. I understand much of the technical side of photography, but have more to learn when it comes to picture composition and the creative side of the art.
Here are the photos I submitted for the Silhouettes contest theme. You can find these and many more in my photo gallery at https://jesseyow.com/electrons-are-cheap/
Massive sequoia trees in late afternoon sun. You can almost hear the quiet in this Yosemite National Park grove, although “almost hear the quiet” seems like something Yogi Berra might have said. Yogi was a catcher for the New York Yankees; look on line for a sampler of his sayings and you will see what I mean. At any rate, the crisp silhouettes of the trees agains the deep blue sky makes this one of my favorites.Suspension bridge across the Dardanelles silhouetted in the setting sun. This bridge crosses between Europe and Asia, and has the longest center span (over 6600 ft) of any bridge in the world. There were construction cranes on top of each of the two towers when I shot this photo, but I don’t know if they were there to put finishing touches to the bridge, which has been open to traffic for a few years, or if they are a permanent fixture to support tower maintenance.Tall grass in the wind. I noticed this photo op on a winter day in Texas. We had just arrived at church for a friend’s wedding rehearsal, and the setting sun highlighted these tufts of grass standing bravely against the cold wind. You might think this was somewhere on the prairie, but it was actually on an island in the church parking lot!
Really like the color of the grass one. Church parking lots are underrated.
Yup. Beauty is where it finds you.