Sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses !
You already know I take my camera with me everywhere I go, and you know that I photograph some of the most ordinary things in life ~ things that most of us overlook.
Today is no exception.
It isn’t roses that I stopped to smell, it was these rusted leaves (and no, I did not smell them!) sitting on an old railroad tie being used as car stops or parking stall markers – whatever they are called! Got out of my car, walked around the front of it and saw these two rusted leaves just sitting there – how odd is that? It’s as if someone had placed them there so perfectly. . . knowing I would want to create this image!
What’s even more odd, is that I walked around the front of the car! I never do that! But if I hadn’t, I would have missed this photo opportunity! Guess there are reasons for everything.
two rusted leaves on an old railroad tie
just one leaf by itself
and what kind of funky, fuzzy yellow leaf is this?
And just as I thought I could be on my way, to go where I needed to go, for why I had come to this place to begin with . . . I look to the right to see this huge feather sticking up out of the ground!
a feather that caught my attention
So down on my stomach I went to photograph close to the ground! Of course, do you see all the dead grass lying around in all four of the images? What do you think my blouse looked like when I stood back up?
That’s it! 4 images in 4 minutes . . . but things we normally miss because we don’t take the time to stop and smell the proverbial roses.