Tell A Story

I hang around a lot of different photographer’s blogs and the main message I take away from each of them is to tell a story with your photos.  Layne Kennedy in particular says to tell your story in three photographs.

I do photography at work, nothing like what I show on this blog.  It occasionally involves documentary photography of whatever project I am working on; images of parts, assembly steps, the working environment, to name a few.  But there I take as many as needed to show what needs to be recorded.  When I am out photographing for fun I usually photograph a lot of different things but nothing really linking several photos together other than the location where they were taken. Before I saw Layne on one of my photography videos I never gave a thought to tell a story in three images.

While I was driving from the Minneapolis airport to my destination in Northern WI I thought about what I could shoot and tell in three images.  All the while I was driving on roads lined with wildflowers.  We have wildflower lined roads in NM, just not as many; flowers or roads.

Finally it hit me; tell a story from the flower’s point of view.  First I have our view of the flowers, then what the flower sees and finally what’s going on in the life of the flowers.

 

 

 

I have two stories here; both stories are basically the same just different flowers.

 

 

 

Please let me know what you think.  This is my first effort telling a story in three images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by,

Mark