© irene waters 2015
(4 photographs) I make two major mistakes or should I say I commonly make two errors with my photography. This first one isn’t one of these. This is a rare occurrence and I didn’t know what it was but looking at Ed’s example it is possibly lens flare.
© irene waters 2015
These next two are common. There used to be a third where the picture would be obscured with a fat pink finger having been placed across the lens but for some reason this no longer seems to happen. Instead my second habitual error is to take a photo when I don’t know that I am taking it, as above. This is usually of the ground. My most common error, however, is moving the camera and getting blurring. Now I am saying this I don’t know that below is an example of that but rather of the wrong exposure time for the situation. I’ve no idea. I just aim and shoot – sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.
© irene waters 2015
© irene waters 2015
This one is camera movement.
In response to Sunday Stills Next Challenge
About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
But the last one is amazing! I liked it!
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I totally agree Noelle. I can see it as a painting that I would stand and look at. I really like the shade of green and the texture of the green. It definitely does need to be looked at from a distance however otherwise you start to feel quite fuzzy yourself.
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I’m taking photos of the ground or sky by accident all the time! If I take 10, five will be blurry. 🙂
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I’m a little better than that but I am surprised at how much I must unknowingly shake. It is in the close ups that I have the most blurriness occurring and then I will have oodles of mistakes to get just one decent photo. 🙂
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I can only imagine that many people reading this must be saying to themselves “Oh, THAT one …” and the like. The only reason I’m not is that I so rarely take photos !
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You’ll have to start so we can get to know your walking route intimately. Both the good views and the path upon which you tread. Even a pinkie or two. We might be able to guage effectiveness of the walk if you did that often enough – mistake or not.
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Was thinking of that this-morning as I strode around Pyrmont Point. It’s impossible: I leave home around 4:50am and get back at around 5:40 – and the sun still hasn’t peeked above the horizon ! 😀
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Wow. Just goes to show day light saving is a rotten invention. One thing that we hope is never introduced to Qld. I love the sun rising that hour earlier. I feel I get an extra hour in the day.
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You’re not entirely alone on that, you know … :-\
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