Wall and Water Bottle

I've mentioned that my social experience with the City Daily Photoblog community has been very pleasant. Another valuable aspect of CDP blogging is that I've learned a lot about photography, in several different ways. Posting a photo every day means thinking about images every day; first photographing the images and then selecting and processing them. This kind of practice inevitably improves one's work. ("Work" is probably the wrong word here. "Play" is more appropriate in this case.) Equally important though is what I've learned from looking at other City Daily Photo bloggers' photos.

Today's post is the first in an occasional series of posts recognizing some of what I've learned from others in this CDP community, and is dedicated to USElaine of the Willits Daily Photo for what I've learned about walls and doors and windows. We're surrounded by walls most of the time and, if we don't stop and look, we tend to see them as obstructions. They get in the way of the "view." Looking at Elaine's walls taught me to see them as potentially interesting elements of composition. The photos above and below this text I took because they reminded me of her photos. Below are links to some of the walls of Willits, California as photographed by Elaine Hamby. But don't just browse her walls. There's lots of interesting descriptions and photographs of daily life in a small Northern California town. Enjoy:

• What Happened Here?
• Stained Wood Wall
• Book Juggler Back Door
and my favorite,
• August Theme Day: Metal