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01 April 2016

April 2016 Theme Day: The Beauty of Simplicity


The first of every month is Theme Day for City Daily Photo bloggers, and this month's theme is the beauty of simplicity. It's really right up my alley, because I strongly tend to gravitate toward very simple compositions in my photographs (that is, when I'm trying to take a good photograph, anyway -- because I often take bad ones!). I went out with  my camera a couple of times in the last few days, trying to take a patented "Tamera-style" photo, but was frustrated by the blah light and the fact that no particularly compelling subject matter presented itself. So I decided to just dig through my archives -- after all, I have countless serenely simple images that I've created over the many years that I've been doing photography! I didn't have to dig very far. These photographs were taken on my recent trip to California, about six weeks ago. In fact, I have several "bird in flight" images taken on this particular trip. (It's safe to say that I'm mildly obsessed with this particular subject.)

Since I couldn't decide which image was the stronger of the two for today's theme, I'll just post them both. For more beautifully simple photographs from bloggers all over the world, click HERE. (And since both of these photographs happen to be mostly sky, let's call this a Skywatch Friday post too!) Have a great weekend!

14 comments:

cieldequimper said...

Perfect. And beautiful shots too!

Dorothee said...

beautiful! have a lovely sky week~~

William Kendall said...

You've chosen well!

Lois said...

I love both of them! Birds are always a favorite of mine.

Sharon said...

This is just perfect!

BarbRad said...

I live in California and spend a lot of time trying to capture those birds in flight. You did a great job. What part of California were these shots taken in?

Tamera said...

Barbara I took these in Orange County. I believe the top photo was taken in San Clemente and the bottom one was taken in Dana Point (but don't quote me on that, I may have the actual cities wrong). :^)

Linda said...

Very pretty and perfect for the theme!

Karl said...

Perfect images for the theme, Tamera !

LOLfromPasa said...

I like your choice. Great shots too.

Mo said...

Great shots. I especially like the B&W image

MurciaDailyPhoto said...

I like the first one, with the blue sky.

Merisi said...

Gorgeous, both photographs!

bk said...

Both are great and I specifically love the second one.