Having just returned from New Zealand with a batch of photos, it is interesting to see what drew my eye and how that fed into the different perspectives.
Shooting Upwards or the worm’s eye view
With all the mountainous and rock face views the landscape had to offer, my eye was inevitably drawn up
but standing within a bamboo grove or under a tree fern also captures the attention
Shooting Down or the birds eye view
I try to remember to look beneath the feet – and shooting down on a subject produces a strong image and interesting geometric patterns and shapes in the details
Shooting from the hip
This is something I rarely do as I never seem to get the angle right nor the focus but it can have impact
Shooting through a frame
Shooting from a low view point
The times I regret my age and lack of agility is when I want to shoot something from a low perspective. The best I can do is half bend but sometimes the subject is on elevated ground which give a faux impression of a low viewpoint
Postscript:
Joining Patti with her Lens Artists Photo Challenge: Change your perspective
PoetryPix 
Whichever point you’re shooting from, above, below, eye to eye, low, high…. your perspective is gorgeous! Welcome back! 🙂
what a lovely welcome and kind words – thank you Marina x
Happy to see you back! 🙂 xoxo
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Excellent. Many great views. Duck, framed, ‘fern tree’ are favorites.
I appreciate your appreciation John –
Your shots are great, Laura. I especially like your set “shooting from a low view point.” That gravestone and the duck are marvelous.
Thank you Patti especially since those low angles are such a challenge for my knees/ and thank you too for the prompt
Oh…and the lupins, too!
They are Russell’s gone wild – just acres of them
LOL for the duck who joined you on the bench Laura. Perhaps he was a senior duck! Lovely images, didn’t you simply LOVE NZ? I’m also with you on the hip shots – never quite mastered it. Yours is beautiful
thanks for the feedback Tina – the duck was a very serene senior 🙂
those hip shots have at least the value of spontaneity – warts and all!
YES ❤ NZ
♥ NZ too, and looking forward to more of it from you! Great perspectives there, Laura – love the duck portrait and the tree fern especially. Can’t get enough of NZ…
NZ was a whirlwind experience so am writing it up slowly in order to digest where and what etc –
https://nzpix.travel.blog/2020/03/02/point-of-farewell/
Good thinking. I will try to read and follow you along! NZ is too far away nowadays with old and frail parents, two dogs and …life. Happy you went!
It was nearly a step too far for me with 25 hours travel there
I know…some landings in between? I remember we went Amsterdam and somewhere in Japan. An awful flight until we flew the last part with NZ own – which was delightful.
4 hour stop over in Singapore and then onward
OK
Gorgeous photos from New Zealand, Laura! I love the looking up of the trees and looking down to the ocean and looking at the ducks. They are all wonderful. We didn’t go to New Zealand when we went to Australia. We’ll be going back to Australia and also go to New Zealand in our next trip.
thank you Miriam – glad you enjoyed these perspectives of a country you surely must see when you next go to the Antipodes
Yeah, Laura, I surely will plan ahead.
Very nice, I’ve also really enjoyed the images you posted from this trip on Instagram.
thanks for keeping up with me! Instagram was all I could manage on the road as it were – blogging was an effort too far especially with intermittent internet so am only now writing the journeys up on my other blog ~ https://nzpix.travel.blog/
That travel blog looks nice. My current blog has an almost full image library, so I am thinking of setting up a second blog. Would it be possible for me to ask you a few questions about your WP set up?
yes you can email me – click on avatar
Thanks very much, I have done so.
Got it
New Zealand is such a beautiful country. You’ve captures the essence well. Kudos.