Picture Perfect
January 15th, 2008 Posted in Art and culture
Do you consider yourself a nature-lover? An appreciator? To get the most out of your view, try nature journaling. Now is a good time to start so that you can really appreciate the change is season. Here are some simple steps to make your own nature journal:
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Start by opening a window and taking note different types of species, colors, cloud types.
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Choose a notebook and spend ten to fifteen minutes writing about your observations.
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Draw (preferably with a pencil) what you can see as accurately as possible.
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Buy plant and bird guide books for your local area, so you know what you’re looking at.
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Keep it up!
Another tip: Keep a camera around to capture wild things in action. Thomas Haney, a photographer from Austin, Texas has taken landscape and micro nature photography. To see more photos like the one above, check out Thomas Haney’s website. Of his photos, Thomas says:
“One thing [photography] has certainly taught me,especially macro photography, is how much beauty and complexity there is everywhere, if you just look closely, of course that’s nothing a little serious contemplation couldn’t teach you. I’d say the most positive influence it’s had on me is just to get me out in the wilderness and paying attention.”
A great book I own:
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Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth
Tags: animals, art, artist, Austin, nature, photography, Texas, Thomas Haney
2 Responses to “Picture Perfect”
By Health Patio on Jan 15, 2008
(Can I bring a camera to my kids’ school LOL to catch wild things in action? j/k)
By Health Patio on Jan 15, 2008
Seriously, Mr. Haney’s site is amazingly beautiful, and the section on Water shows his talent perfectly.