I think I prefer the second fence post picture. I’m in no way a photography expert though, I though the other photos which you weren’t pleased with up above looked good. LOL
Cindy
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I KNOW these pictures directly above and below are NOT great. I didn’t take them for any reason other than to compare what I was trying to meter. I’ve been reading a couple of books lately which I’ll blog about another day. I’m posting them here to show you what my dh has to put up with in regard to my new obsession with photography (LOL). Tim patiently looked at and listened to my explanation of 5 or so pictures like this. I doubt he was impressed…
We kept clicking through the pictures while I was explaining what I was looking at and how I was trying to figure out the best setting for the picture I really wanted to take which was of the fencepost (below) in our yard. He seemed quite surprised that the previous several pictures and explanation resulted in the shot below (LOL). I was actually quite surprised myself. After reading these books, I realized that there was one setting I had never messed with before. I gave it a try and FINALLY a picture I actually like! I like how there were enough clouds in the sky to give varying shades of orange to the sunset. I like how the grain is tilting the same direction as the fence post which keeps your eye moving in a leftward direction. I like how the fencepost itself is pretty well centered. Hopefully the barbed fence at the top keeps your eye looking to the left since the barbed fence in the darker part of the picture would send your eye looking off to the right… that’s why I leaned down far enough to put that one in the darker part of the picture and the other wire going left in the brigher part of the picture. Ok.. so that was probably WAY more info than anyone cared to know about this picture, but that’s just how my mind works. It’s no wonder it takes me so long to do anything… I can’t even take a picture without analyzing it a million ways before I even take it. 
I’ve actually been planning to take a picture of this particular fencepost for quite some time because every time I see it I think of a childhood story. My friend and I used to play house out in the yard. One summer I hung my watch on this fencepost so we could use it as our “clock.” When I realized my watch was missing, it had been long enough that I had forgotten I’d hung it on the fencepost. A year or two later while I was mowing the lawn I spotted my watch on the fencepost and then I remembered putting it there a summer or two before. We put a new battery in it and it still worked. There. I’ve been wanting to write down a few of my memories growing up here in the house where we are raising our kids. I didn’t want to just write down the story without a picture though.
I waited a few minutes until the sun set a little more giving off some different colors and ended up with this picture of the same fencepost. This time I wanted to include both parts of the fence going left and right and I wanted to include the 3 different colors of the sunset along the height of the fencepost so I had to lay down in the grass! Next time I need to remember to wear a long sleeved shirt and some jeans since grass makes me ITCH! I’m not sure which of these two I like better. Do you have a favorite?
