I have no idea what this park is called. But it was near Pioneer. My dad and I were driving around to all the different parks in the neighborhood trying to get enough parks before sunset. This is the last one we managed to get to. You can kind of tell because the shadows are so large. I actually took a ton of pictures here but they were all kind of the same, so I only edited one. The field gave the illusion of being in the middle of nowhere on a farm even when in reality it was just high enough up on a hill that you couldn't see downtown Ann Arbor over the trees-- so I got a lot of pictures of just the open expanse of grass. This one is nice though cause it has the branch adding the extra element. Makes it less boring. As for feeling.. I don't know. Serenity? It reminds me of the farms surrounding this summer day camp I used to go to. Big fields are nice. It was super muddy here. There were a lot of places I couldn't get to cause I was wearing tennis shoes and I didn't want to get my feet wet. I also found it was all just a lot of the same thing, and there were very few things, so I couldn't get much variety at all.
My dad says this park is called West Park. I never knew it had a name. I don't know why it's called that. It's not very far west, all things considered. It used to be. But Ann Arbor has expanded. And it's also a relatively new park, I think. As for when I was taking them, I feel like it was probably around 4 or 5 by the time we got here in our tour of all the area's parks. I find composition really easy when things are already set in their place. Having to arrange things is hard cause you have to think, but when the trees are already there and the sun is there, or you just have to make sure the cattail is centered, it's a lot easier to make it look balanced and well-composed. I honestly have no idea what feeling I want people to feel. "They look nice". West Park is super empty. There's a pond, some grass, a dead tree, and an amphitheater. But I made it work, I think. I mean I totally didn't. These were the only good pictures from there.
These are from the woods next to Eberwhite school. It's a lower school. Maybe a middle school. I can't remember. I used to go there and play on the play structures cause they're so cool and complex, but I can't anymore cause I don't fit in them. This was the first stop, so it was still like 3 or 4. The sun wasn't like right in our eyes or anything which was nice. Like I said before, there's not really too much to think about composition-wise with set objects. just adjust your angle and what your camera gets until it doesn't look horribly lopsided or one part doesn't look way too distracting. You have the symmetry of the trunk and the two tree shots, and the overall balance of the creek on one side and the bright grass on the other of the fourth picture. I actually hate nature and walks in the woods. But my dad loves it. So maybe by chance the viewer will like the woods too and hopefully they'll feel happy and I captured what they liked about the woods. I took like 10 pictures within the first hundred feet but after that it was all the same so we just went back to the parking lot.
I took my friend to see Avengers and then took her back to her house. And I was about to walk her to her door (as if she can't do that herself, but my parents are weird) and I thought "there are a lot of plants around here, I can take some pictures while I'm at it." So I just walked around her front and back yard taking pictures of nature stuff while she talked about primal evil beings living under the earth's surface, biding their time waiting to strike and kill us all. So it was a fun time. The pink flowers were way easier to take a picture of since they filled the entire frame. The white flower, though-- I could only get at it from one angle without having man-made stuff, and there was that other plant in the background, so I had to try and balance it out without focusing on the plant in the background. I've been told flowers smell like stuff sometimes. I've never been able to smell flowers in my life aside from musty old flower pot water smell. But who knows, maybe some people see flowers and think of sweet smells. It was hard to get pictures without the road or bricks or a sidewalk or the house or something in the shot. All her plants are on little mounds of mulch so you basically have to look down on them to avoid getting man-made stuff in the shot. Basically I could only take close-ups of flowers and the tops of trees.