I took this shot the other day while out with my students for a landscape photography lab assignment.
It is amazing how my students think that you need to have fancy gear to take a good photographs. Sure, it sometimes can make it easier in certain cases, but generally, it's about really looking at your subject. Looking at things not as a field, with weeds, trees, and sky, and more of looking at a combination of colors, textures, shapes, shadows, lines, and movement. Once you begin to break down a scene like that, things can really stand out to you, and your chance to be inspired becomes magnified. It is not hard to see a beautiful sunset or flowers and take a picture, since they are obviously beautiful subjects. However, to be able to view a boring field of over-grown weeds trailing into a dull grove of trees with an overcast sky and suddenly seeing the textures, lines, colors and lines...that's a little bit more effort. However, the more you train your eye for these things, the easier it becomes to do.
Taken with the iPhone.
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