Trees near the beach at Formby Point. This little group of trees stood a little in isolation from surrounding trees and they stood out to me. I like the contrast between the softness of the grass and the hardness of the trees, and the complimentary colours of the grass against the sky. if I was going to do anything else to this, I would increase the colour saturation to make that contrast of colour more effective using Photoshop in Image/Adjust/HueSaturation. What is important in this shot is that the trees are vertical. The slope of the grass bank tends to make us compensate when taking a picture like this so that the trees end up at an angle. If this happens, it can be corrected in Photoshop using Image/Adjust/Rotate canvas/Arbitary. A value can be added here of say 2 or 3 degrees and the image can be rotated clockwise or counterclockwise to get the trees vertical. The image then has to cropped using the crop tool to restore a full image without angled backgound tone.
Maritime sculptures. These propeller blades on the bow of one of the decks on the Queen Mary 2 enabled me to take this image which consists of one of mt favourite themes...abstract shapes. The curves of the propeller blades contrast with the straight lines of the railings, which themselves contrast with the diagonal line of the cabin wall on the left. There is also use of colour...the warm orange contrasts with the blue of the sky. One reason that this shot works for me is the brightness and saturation of the colour. This image did not work on a dull, overcast day and I was lucky to get a moment of bright sunshine and abscence of people. This shot would not work if there were passengers milling about on deck.
