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!!
Underwater photos absolutely fascinate me and you’ve done such an amazing job at including unique perspectives and even capturing the water droplets! So cool!
The Go-Pro adds a whole new dimension to the images and I love what you captured this month. My daughter lost her go-pro surfing in the ocean.
These are fantastic- it’s great to get a different perspective. Love the bottom one. I had a brief couple of years taking underwater pics with my son but sadly now he is 18 that’s not going to happen now lol.