Photo Friday: Beauty

It's been a few weeks since my first (and only) submission to the Photo Friday Challenge.   My excuses are that either I was away or didn't feel as if I had a photo that fit the challenge topic.   

The challenges I missed/skipped were: Spiral, The Office, Flight, and Awful.  All pretty intriguing concepts and it is always interesting to see how people interpret them.

If you can read, which I assume is the case if you are at this point... this week's challenge is BEAUTY. 

As with my first submission, I went with my gut instinct despite having some doubts that it was too obvious.  Ok, I'll admit that I peaked at few other of the submissions before submitting my own...there were a lot of close-up pix of flowers and shit like that, so I figured obvious was just fine.   

If I had it in my collection, I maybe would have with something more contrary... say a shriveled up old woman... which I find to be very beautiful in that whole wise, lived a long life, experienced, inner beauty thing... but alas I came up short on wise/old/shriveled... not counting that previously mentioned, but unseen on here, recent self-portrait pic of myself... ha!

So anyhow, here is my submission:

A Moorea sunset from our trip to French Polynesia ("Tahiti") in May 2005.

This had to be one of the most spectacular sunsets that I have ever seen... and surely the most spectacular one that I have ever captured on film (well, captured on a memory card... but that sounds considerably less romantic).   

Given my fairly new schmancy SLR camera and all the "bells and whistles" that I tend to now employ via post-processing software... it is pretty funny to think that this was taken with a pretty basic point-and-shoot camera... likely a few years old at the time of this trip... megapixels so low that I doubt you can even find a camera with that low a count these days (I maybe had a 64k memory card)... and likely nothing done after the fact, except a resize.  It boggles my present-day mind!  BTW, this has been the desktop background picture on my PC for 3+ years now!

Then again, this picture falls into that un-screw-up-able category... while I'll take some credit for the composition... mother nature puts on the very best shows... and this one was certainly a... wait for it... BEAUTY! 

Comments

[monette]

it's amazing your photo hasn't been bought up and distributed with new computers as a pre-set background anyways! i love it!

I am far from the most knowledgeable on cameras and photography, but I will say my last point-and-shoot camera i owned (can't remember the brand) captured color so much more magnificently than my current high megapixel digital camera. I don't know if it's a processing issue or what. my digital seems to pick up oranges and reds really well (more than you see actually standing there looking at sunsets) for some reason also.

i have been loving your flickr photos lately, and i just started the project 365 thing, so hopefully my skills will improve over the year!

[Beth]

I know we'll see some beautiful and excellent photos when you guys get back from your upcoming trip!!!