As you’ve made your way through the circle, you already know by now that August’s theme is Water. We did this theme two years ago in April and I did some pictures of water droplets splashing into a bowl of water. This time around I decided to try for some underwater pictures. I wanted to stretch myself as it’s not something I photograph very often. It was also made more difficult though as we took our pool down this year. I had hoped to get some images in an outdoor pool, but time got away from me (we’ve had family in town and my daughter is in a musical) and so we had to head to the community college’s indoor pool last minute. I would have preferred some outdoor sunny glistening pool pictures, but this will have to do.
For my final image, I’m going to post an underwater picture I took last summer at an outside pool. 
It gives a little comparison of the lighting differences between an indoor pool and outdoor. There is so much that goes into an image. The first five pictures were shot with a GoPro and were much higher resolution images than my final image which was shot with a point and shoot underwater camera. I’m new to underwater photography, so maybe there was more I could do with the editing of the first pictures, but I have to say that lighting plays a big role in an image. Not that the first images weren’t good, they definitely captured the “mood” of the lighting at the indoor pool, and I like the mood of the pool lighting. Then you look at my final image and it’s a totally different vibe. It’s light and airy. A lot of photographers find a style or look they like to always shoot in. While I had hoped to do bright outdoor pool pictures, it was definitely fun (and challenging) trying some indoor more moody images. I think that’s what I love about photography. While I would love to create my own signature style in my images, I tend to always go back to just shooting the images as the scene was with whatever mood and lighting was there. I’ve even beaten myself up about not having a signature style, but I’m kind of coming to the conclusion though that documenting the scene as it was IS my style.
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed my take on this month’s theme. Head on over to Elizabeth’s blog to see her amazing pictures!!