Week 90 My Sunday Photo and Photalife - Macro

This weeks photalife theme is Macro. I'm not very good when it comes to using the camera without auto settings and absolutely no good with editing unless it's on my iPhone, so I end up taking most pictures on it, rather than transfer the pictures from my memory card via iTunes. Seeing as I've spent all my spare time on the laptop, I thought this would be a good subject for the photo prompt.

It's been a busy week and I've struggled to keep up with my photo prompts and blogging, other than a couple of linky's, has been on stand still since the beginning of July.

I've been travelling and since getting back we've had 2 of the kids out for 2 concurrent weeks. My iPhone and SD card are full of photo's over the past 3 months and I really need to set aside some time to do so, but it's back to school with a new year and a whole new set of children, most of them are first timers so the settling in period will take a few weeks, then I'll see if I have any energy to do anything other than just transfer the pictures into a folder marked 'too sort'

Let's see the bigger picture

We've all staged photos, had a quick tidy up and maybe even popped to the shops to buy something to make it just perfect.

We can edit, buy special lenses and take 100's of shots choosing the perfect photo.

But blogs, Instagram, face book and twitter are starting to look like a catalogue of library pictures. 

The close up of the bumble bee is beautiful, the flowers absolutely perfect, but too be honest I'm finding it a little boring and repetitive to look at.

Now fair enough you can say the same about my blog posts, my endless pictures of the dog and cat, but this is just my opinion of the current style of photography. I just really don't like it.

I want people to see the context, the bigger picture. The glorious park that one perfect flower is in, the sky to get an idea of the weather and the landscape to get a feel of your location.

I currently spend more time looking for something to write about your photo, which is the same as all the other photos. 

It uses more characters entering my name and email address than it does writing 'beautiful shot' or 'lovely colours' 

Here are some pictures taken in my garden, they show the detail, what I'm doing and the bigger picture. They may not be the best or the most interesting but I feel it gives the reader a little something extra in which to comment on.

The same with these ones. I mean look at the honesty of the final photo and tell me that's why you do close ups, so no one sees the reality.