52Frames Distortion Photo Trending

This week there were a little over 2500 entries on the 52Frames photo challenge website. I’ve been participating for almost four years and people participate from all over the world. Since April, my weekly photo has been highlighted on the website in the trending section. Usually it shows up the day after the album opens and stays up for about an eight hour period. That gives it a lot of exposure. I spend a lot of time on my entry each week. It’s more than just taking a photo and doing some editing. It’s a project and requires a lot of thought about the subject, taking photos, but spending a lot of time editing and creating composite images. It’s more of an art project that a photo project. The comments I receive are very uplifting - even though I haven’t had a 52pick for a while. So it gets down to participating every week because I love to spend time creating projects rather than taking photos. I never really was a photographer anyway and my camera is my iPhone. I just love to take pictures and hope something turns out. So it is very nice to have my photo trend and I’ve had quite the streak. Now I’m working on the image for this week. Hopefully my luck will continue. 

52Frames Distortion Weekly Photo Challenge

We haven’t been able to take morning walks lately because of my foot pain. I thought perhaps not walking for at least a week might help things. I’m not sure that is the case. It does put a crimp in my style as far as getting photos for the weekly challenge. It is also very frustrating and demoralizing because it seems like it will never heal I. Spite of the exercises for it, icing it, wearing new walking shoes, and wearing night and day splints. The subject this week was “distortion.” Rather than walk along the Old Town Alexandria waterfront we basically walked to a shaded bench and sat there for a while before going to breakfast at one of our favorite places. I held my iPhone in the same position and took photos of all the passersby - and there were many - running, walking, riding bikes along the path by the Potomac River. So a composite photo was created using three of the original images and a fourth layer was added of the completed image to create even more distortion. Later in the week we drove over to Glen Echo Park where there is a one hundred plus year old carousel. I thought the photo of it was quite nice using a long exposure, but my husband hates carousels so that one was ruled out. So I haven’t been happy with my entries lately but I still enjoy the editing process. At least it gives me something else to think about.