It was there all along…

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge this week is: (Extra)ordinary  –  Mundane and meaningful objects. Beautiful everyday things. This week, surprise us with something or someone (extra)ordinary

Seeing the world through a lens is as second nature to some of us as changing our underwear.

Would you leave the house without changing your underwear?

No…nor I think, would you leave the house without your third eye…correct?

Anyway…for people like us, (the underwear changing kind) seeing the Extra in the Ordinary is really just a matter of perspective.

We see it everywhere in every thing…eventually.

Sometimes, it’s in the reason we stop and shoot.

And sometimes, it’s in the 5th or 10th or 30th shot with minute changes in a particular subject.

But most of the time (at least for me) it’s often just a change of perspective…moving my focus, moving my feet, or just plain, being moved.

Below are some of my photos that I believe are Extra-ordinary. Not because they are great photos, because they are not. Some are pretty good, some are damned good, but some are just okay.

And I’m good with that. What I appreciate about all of them, is that by changing my perspective, choosing to shoot in less than favorable conditions, or focusing on the emotion of them and therefore hopefully translating it to the picture, more often than not, bring out the Extra in some of the more everyday, mundane, and ‘it’s just a sunset’, pictures.

Thanks for looking and here’s to more of the Extra in all of our Ordinaries.

And by all means, click on the photos to get the ‘extra’ full size effect.  lol

Cheers 🙂

When a beautiful ocean sunset...
When a beautiful ocean sunset…
...become 'extra' for the frond silhouette
…becomes ‘extra’ for the frond silhouette
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When a lone fishing boat surrounded by sea birds becomes ‘extra’ for the blanket of morning sea mist
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Or when a lonely cabin in the middle of acres of dormant farm land becomes haunted and ‘extra’ for the snow fog quietly taking over
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When I capture a magnificent ‘bird of prey‘, I’m not yet thinking...
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…about who he becomes when zeroing in on this beautiful ‘bird who prays. For me, they both become the ‘extra”
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When a sunset becomes so much more, has so much ‘extra’, when captured on a day the sky is teaming with the right combination of pollutants. Pollution as extraordinary? Extraordinary!
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When what the ocean throws away that which is more beautiful than anything than man can make…it becomes ‘extra’
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And when the ocean captures and transforms what man has left behind, and turns it to something beautiful…it has that ‘extra’
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Or when a forgotten church, surrounded by shadows of life forgotten…seen from a distance, and imagining its history…it becomes the ‘extra’

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Rhonda

Hi everyone! Welcome to 50 Shades of Gray Hair. 50 Shades is my blog of life over the hill, where each day is full of delicious opportunities to earn another gray hair. I stopped declaring war on the gray when I began this blog years ago. Instead, I embrace and celebrate them along with whatever life decides to throw my way, with (sarcasm forward) humor and an optimistic eye to the future. I think. I hope? I don't know. At any rate...it's real, it's honest, it's full of 4 letter words, and it's me...on a platter. I sincerely welcome you all to my porch....♥♥Rhonda

14 thoughts on “It was there all along…”

  2. Lovely images. I particularly life the solitary church hewn into the woods. I also appreciate your comments alongside your images. I like the background and the little bit of extra effort taken. Hope it’s not a lot of extra work. Don’t want to be getting any more grey hairs now 😉 A follow from me and my Thirty Summers blog. Feeling some pretty kindred themes 🙂 Cheers

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    1. Thank you for such a great comment Saxon. I love that church also…I stop and snap it every time I pass it even though I’ve got dozens of photos of it already. lol It just calls to me. And I like the ‘extra’ work to be honest and (shhh) but I like my gray too.
      Thanks for the follow, there’s always room on my porch for kindred spirits!

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