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Bug's eye view of yellow flowers by Jennifer M. Ramos
 

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Welcome to our newsletter.  All the creek that's fit to print.

Our monthly newsletter is meant to be a one stop shop to keep you up to date on what is going on in the Bull Creek Greenbelt.  
 

Upcoming Events at Bull Creek

Our next Monthly meeting is Monday, July 29, 2019. We will meet at Lakewood Clubhouse, 7317 Lakewood Dr, Austin, TX 78750 , from 6:00pm to about 8:00pm. Anyone with an interest in Bull Creek and the surrounding green spaces is welcome to  join us!

BCF Board Member David Cook will lead a hike on the flora and fauna of Bull Creek at Upper Bull Creek July 13th from 9-11am. Please register, here.

July 14th we are hosting a park clean up starting at Lakewood and 360 (semi-paved parking lot. This one is on a Sunday. Find more details on our Facebook event page.

NWACA will continue with its Third Saturday Park Clean Ups this month. Meet at the District Park (6701 Lakewood) July 20th, 9am to noon if you want to help out. Registration and details, here.


Check out our calendar for upcoming activities.  While you are there, catch up on past events, history of the Bull Creek area, and all things Bull Creek. http://www.bullcreekfoundation.org/calendar/

Tips for Outdoor Photography: Perspective

 

In a previous newsletter, I covered lighting. Now I want to venture into perspective. Perspective, defined, is, “the sense of depth or spatial relationship between objects in a photo, along with their dimensions with respect to what viewer of the image sees.” It’s a simple term that means “how you see things.” Oftentimes, people making photos won’t go to the trouble of considering a position that differs from their own standing, straight-on viewpoint. I encourage people to change that, because who wants to look at a picture they could have seen with their own eyes? It’s far more interesting to show your viewer your own unique way of seeing.
 
The first thing you need to do as a photographer is move. Move left or right, up or down. Get at eye-level with animals and people. Get down to ground level like a bug, or shoot from above looking straight down, like a bird. Shifting your position gives you the power to make something mundane into something worth considering.
 
Bug's eye view, or as some call it, worm's eye view, gives the added advantage of providing your subject a new background. Have you ever photographed a flower in the middle of a field of other flowers, sticks, and other distractions? One way to set that flower apart is to photograph it from below, tiling the camera upward, which may enable you to change your background to sky.
 
Shoot from above, with a top-down perspective, and you will experience “the foreshortening of more distant features.” When looking at landscapes, your composition might seem more like shapes and contours, in an almost-abstract way. Photographing people from above, particularly with a wide lens, distorts features, making their heads seem larger and their bodies, tapered. You may have met people who request to be photographed from a high angle for this reason.
 
These are just a few perspectives to consider. Experiment and see what you can come up with!

 

Jennifer M. Ramos is a freelance photographer based in Austin Texas, and Bull Creek Foundation Member. We will run more photography tips in upcoming issues, so stay tuned!
 
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