You Capture - Get Down Low

Beth's You Capture challenge this week was to Get Down Low.  I like this challenge because it reminds me of how different everything looks from that 'way down low' perspective.

I started with one of this year's best hanging baskets.  (I got it for Mother's Day from Beth.)  Anyway, you'd never believe from this perspective that the most spectacular part of this basket is the red geraniums on top.

Next I explored how tall this bird house (that I got from my granddaughter) looks from 'way down low'.

 

And then I took a look across the water garden from ground level.

And while I was there I shot these birds.  They're so much cuter at eye level than they are when I'm looking down on them.

I went to the other side of the pond to see how it looked from ground level and here's what I saw.

And when I looked directly at the rocks surrounding the pond, I almost felt like I was back at the Garden of the Gods.

 
Finally I got down low to capture these rain chimes (a gift from my oldest daughter) and realized that it's much easier to look right up at the sun from such a low perspective.
 
So I put the sun behind me and it looked entirely different.


 For more 'down low' shots, visit Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry

You Capture - Get Down Low

Beth is really making us work now, isn't she. You would think that she wouldn't want her mother laying around in the back yard with a camera in her hand. She should just be glad that I decided to give you all a break from Striebel Pond pictures otherwise the embarrassment could have been epic. This way only the neighbors saw and, I guess fortunately, didn't care enough to call 911.

I started with the hydrangeas and the hanging basket. It really gave me a different perspective to lay under the flowers and take pictures. I tried some straight in to the stems and dirt shots but they came out a little too good. I don't really want to share the horrifying sights I saw of a whole new crop of weeds coming in.

And then there were the naughty fish. Any other time when I feed them they're plowing through the water with half their bodies above the surface. Today, when I'm laying at water level with a camera in my hand, they avoid me like the plague. I don't get it. Why are they so camera shy?

Ahhhhh, but then the pond from way down low.

And finally I thought the cloud bank in the background gave the illusion of a very tall flag pole with me way down below it snapping a picture. Did it work? I'm not so sure.

Now to get way down low from lots of other perspectives, visit Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry.