Photography Walkabout

My Dad and I both share a love for photography.  We enjoy exchanging photos with each other, and it is fun to talk about different lenses, techniques, and processing.  We especially enjoy when we have opportunities to take photos together.  Something we discovered over the last year is the "Photo Walkabout."  We first tried this out last spring with a morning walk with the doggies.

With the walkabouts, we take photos of the same location from different angles.  We walk together but ignore what each other captures.  At the end, we put our photos together and compare what we each saw.   It is cool to see what we both noticed, and the aspects of the shooting spot that we saw completely differently.

This weekend, Dad and I tried this out again in a local cemetery in Ithaca, NY.  This very old cemetery has fallen into some disrepair, but the uneven tombstones and shadows from the ancient trees created some very interesting shots.  Here are the results:

On our way walking to and from the cemetery, we also tried out photographing the colorful fire hydrants from different angles.  The end collage was pretty neat: