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St. Lucia Photographer Shares A Photo A Day
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Flying High
For the last couple of days I kinda wondered why I wasn’t getting any responses to my photo posts, and feeling fairly confident that I hadn’t suddenly started posting boring stuff I looked further and discovered that in upgrading my wordpress blog version I deactivated the plugin that sends my blog posts to twitter…Ah the power of technology to wreak havoc in our lives …but that story’s for another show…
So today I thought I’d play around with a different picture format and ask you what you think.
And that brings me to the title of today’s photo: "Lessons I Learnt From George Benson"
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting George Benson twice when he performed at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival (I think he may have performed on three different occasions)
…And I was always struck by the fact that every time you ran into George he was always signing. And I remember asking him: "Hey George how comes it is that every time I bump into you are always signing?"
Here’s what he said to me:
"Well you see to stay at the top of your game requires more than just talent. You’ve got to practice, practice, practice. Now take a great guitarist, or pianist. You will always find them working at their keyboard or their guitar. Well my instrument is my voice, and like them I practice all the time…But best of all there’s no extra weight carrying my voice around!"
Well right there and then I vowed to practice my photography a whole lot more.
This picture above was shot with a tiny Canon 5.2 MP point and shoot camera through the window of an aircraft on my way back home, probably from another Miami shopping trip!
The challenge I gave myself was to capture the beauty of the scene below me, show that I was in an aircraft and reduce the reflection from the cabin window.
How do you think I did?…Please leave me some comments as I’d really love to hear from you.
And while I’ve got your attention let me ask you this: "What are you doing to practice your greatest skill?"
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on Oct 28th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I love the photo. Shows you don’t need to have expensive equipment to get good shots- just a bit (in your case, a lot) of talent and a bit of attention to detail. It gives those of us who are amateur (in every sense of the word) photographers like me hope that we can get good shots as well. Just one gentle word of advice – (we all do it, too) – there is a word misspelled in your comment – or was that done to see if we’d notice? Take care and God belss and thanks for sharing, and for reminding us to always work on improving our skills. We all have some, we just forget at times to work on them and sometimes even what they are.A bit of soul-searching is necessary at times. Thanks again.
on Oct 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
See, I said we all do it too. I proved my case in point. I forgot to spell check. Smile!!!
on Oct 28th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Ah, Thank you GrandMa Beth for your kind words and for being my spell checker too. Funny thing is I re-read the post and still missed the error. It was only when I took the passage into word that I saw it…as well as the fact that I had written are twice!
I shall certainly be more careful in the future…so let me go spell check this post now!…OK its fine (:-)
on Oct 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
You’re as welcome as the flowers in spring. Take care. Grandma Margaret.