HEROES
I met a wonderful woman today, her name is Martha.
Martha came to my rescue. Martha is truly my “hero of the day”!
One of my errands included a stop at the Michael’s Store in Goleta, CA. I was fortunate enough to park directly in front of the store proper, which has a beautiful corrugated steel fronting and four square vine-ridden posts with these small star-shaped white flowers on them.
All but the one I parked in front of were healthy and living – the one I parked in front of had dead vines wrapped around it, but the flowers were going strong. The contrast of organic against corrugated steel was stark and ripe for photographing – so out comes the camera!
And since I am not always in a standing position when I photograph – it can look rather precarious sometimes when a grown woman with a camera is being a contortionist in order to ‘get the picture’ . . . or remove background clutter – in camera.
dead potato vine wrapped around corrugated steel and terra-cotta posts
a better angle
. . . . or get a different color backdrop by changing the position of ones body angle relative to the flowers, as with the next few images.
love the purple-ish background
and this terra-cotta colored background
as well as this green backdrop
I think it was about this time that Martha stopped and asked something like why I was taking pictures of dead potato vine when there were living ones on the three other posts.
Thank you Martha! I now have a name for a flower! How many blog-posts have I added over the past several months that I have had no clue as to the name of the flowers or trees? Martha is my “hero” today and I am very grateful that she took the time to stop and be curious about what and why I was taking pictures.
After we finished talking, I took a few more, differently composed images before returning to the myriad of remaining tasks on my to do list.
this image was created with simplicity in mind - it almost has a Japanese feel to it
lots of blossoms
here I liked the flowers against the texture and lines of the terra-cotta
Remember, these are potato vine blossoms . . .