Landscape

Here are two of my landscape pictures for the week.

To be honest, today (Sunday) was the only day I took any pictures. I went out to the countryside and went fishing with my English students and decided that it would be a good time to bring my camera and get some shots. Since I hadn’t been out that particular way before, and I was riding on the back of a motorbike while snapping all the shots, I couldn’t exactly plan what kind of photos to get. I snap-snap-snapped away, every chance I got, and ended up taking a lot of pictures – mostly pretty bad ones. When I was riding through one particular area, I originally didn’t think it was a very photogenic spot, but I decided to keep my camera out anyway. Then when I took a picture and looked at it, I realized that it was better than expected, but I wasn’t sure why. So I snapped a couple more – one of which is the picture below – since it always takes me a few shots of the same thing before I get one that works. I’ve decided now that I think the reason I like it is because the photo has depth, which I was having difficulty achieving with my others. It’s not a great picture – I don’t think I’m very good at landscape photography, perhaps because landscape in general usually fails to interest me – but I like it okay.

This is another one that’s alright but I wish I could have done better. I like the color contrast of the greenery and the road...