POTM - Behind the Shot!
Our theme this month was “Broken Rules.” As our entries illustrated, this theme included photos of people breaking rules, photos that broke compositional rules, or photos that broke the most basic of “rules” like being in focus or realistic in color. Our winner, Québécoise Michelle Anne, won this month with a very blurry photo achieved with a long exposure. Turns out, she really liked the results and had other, similar photos to share with us.
“Trails,” Parc du Mont-Saint-Bruno, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, Canada, 2018
We spoke with Michelle about how she got this beautiful impressionist shot:
“It was a beautiful, warm day here in Quebec, perfect to go hiking or running on the trails of this amazing provincial park that is also a mountain. There were so many runners that day, even the deer were very present - sometimes they can be hard to see - and they were also running. I was hiking one of these trails and the movement all around me caught my eye more than usual, so I decided to take a few shots with my iPhone.
Once home, I found the photos interesting but not enough. So I decided to activate the long exposure function of the iPhone to see how it would change things. Usually I don’t use this function much at all. The result surprised me, especially with the runner on the right where I felt I captured the movement and the joy of running in nature. So I continued doing these long exposures that afternoon, including photos of running deer. Those became like abstract paintings and I was very happy with the results.”
Here are a few more of Michelle’s photos from the trail, plus a beautiful urban shot of Jim Dine’s “Two Hearts” sculpture at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal.
If you’d like to see more of Michelle’s work you can follow her on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/michelleisinthewater/
Congratulations again, Michelle!
