This week, Ritva challenges us to “take the mundane and shine a different light on it… to highlight an object or scene that we normally pass by without notice, and make it something special.” I decided to select some photos from my archives for this post.
I love a nice vase of posies, and I’m always drawn in by a pretty sunset, so when sunlight glowed through these spring daffodils and pussy-willows, I quickly grabbed my camera. I love how the light is filtered through the flower petals and creates a halo around the edge of the willow catkins.
A head of cabbage in the grocery store is about as ordinary as it comes. However, this very large one in a friend’s garden drew me in. The evocative texture and lines of the leaves lead our eye to the solid center of the cabbage head.
Driftwood logs are a common sight on the Long Beach Peninsula. Photographing this one at eye level along its length, provides a sense of its immense size and wonderful texture. Black and white keeps our focus on the log rather than drawing us out to the ocean and sky.
Another branch that drifted ashore rests upon wave-sculpted beach sand with morning sun casting dramatic shadows and highlighting the lovely honey tone of the wood.
Lindy Low LeCoq 
Love them all, Lindy – my favourites are the beach logs and the vase with a posy glowing in the sun. Nicely done.
Thank you, Leya! I love it when the scene is set – all I have to do is observe, think about it and take the photos!
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I love this idea. I have a rule when I go out in the morning, especially to the dog park along the river: to look for (and find) at least five beautiful things. It’s amazing: the silhouette of a dead tree reflected in the river; gossamer threads of spider webs in the grass, and dew! Birdsong. My dog backlit by the rising sun. Once I get five, I keep going, because the wonderful thing about this exericse is that I notice mundane things I might otherwise overlook. I recommend this to others because it trains your eyes and your mind to really SEE.
Oooh, I love this idea Jill! Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful choices, Lindy. You captured some amazing beauty in things around you.
Lindy, these are lovely, I am going to agree with Ann-Christine about which stood out. Anything on a beach get approval from me, well not trash obviously.
Thank you, Ritva. When I’m on the beach I make an effort to remove as much beach trash as I can – to leave it better than I found it!
Lindy, these are fabulous. I especially like the log and the branch on the beach.
Thank you, Beth!
Great photos and points of view, Lindy. 👏
Thank you, John. I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone else did for this one!
I love the cabbage’s leaf patterns. So many beautiful marks to be found in nature.
Thank you ,Denny. Nature never lets me down!
Beautiful photos of these common objects! Love how you captured the cabbage. 🙂
Thank you, Amy!