Peace is one of the headings in the photo challenge that I am in and I had decided to take the easy way out and photograph a house plant – how difficult could that be. Let me tell you….. First the plant was a Peace Lily or Peace Plant – right on topic. Well it wasn’t completely in bloom so I had to wait a few days. Then it decided to be awkward and lean at an angle – kids do that – but plants!!!!
Finally I decided that it was open enough to shoot – with a camera – that is. Well because of the angle I had to get fairly close to the ground and twist my wretched body into a pretzle shape too look through the view finder. Even then it was so dark and shadowy on the cramped landing that I couldn’t actually see the f-stop numbers – how these paparazzi just reel them off? I don’t know!!
The pictures I took were OK – but not great and I had spent an hour before work setting this up….Oh yes, then I had to go to work. I decided to try again the next day. This time I moved the plant to the living room and tried to zoom in on its peaceful message. It’s a little better – but still doesn’t impart that feeling of PEACE that I was after.
Now I did learn how to turn my flash on manually and how to soften the flash with a tissue over it and how sometimes the perfect subject – well just isn’t….. and how something that I thought was going to be soooo easy just wasn’t.
Nor could I find a nice piece of folklore about the Peace Plant…you know something about mother’s milk dropping from the heavens and creating the plant – no – dutiful searches on the internet revealed that this house plant was good for cleaning the air of impurities; but that it was poisonous for children or animals – a bit too late to tell the cats, who munch on the leaves all the time.
So here she is looking sooo innocent – don’t be fooled…a lily she maybe – peaceful she isn’t 🙂
Far be it for me to say. If at first you don’t succeed – give up…maybe not just yet 🙂
Have a peaceful – hopefully – day