This week’s photo challenge is guest hosted by Strauss Louw.
Free Spirit. I chose this as the topic for this week’s photo challenge as it lends itself to so many possibilities for subject matter and composition. I work exclusively with film and believe this element is quite important concerning a theme such as the free spirit, as it allows for more experimentation and creative exploration due to how film reacts differently to light than a digital sensor would. To capture this idea of the free spirit, I would suggest breaking some rules. Sometimes it is necessary to overexpose a frame slightly and point the lens to the sun for a bit of glare to capture that sense of a different, free, moving reality.
And I had just a photo like that:
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But I want to share one more image with you. On the next photo, the little girl appears to be surreal, not entirely of this world. Perhaps she dropped in from another dimension…
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spirit child, run free
stir light echoes of laughter
where wild flowers grow
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I like the composition in the second one
She’s a nice free spirit, right?
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Great post Marion
Jake, thank you!
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Nicely done.
Thanks, Ruth.
hi Marion,
it’s good if we can feel free in a field …
It sure is!
Both of these are lovely. The first is amazing in its fit of the description suggested by the author of the WP post. And the second is special in so many ways. That little girl is darling. Very good capture.
Thank you so much, Sandra. It was very nice to find your e-mail in my inbox
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Great shots especially the 2nd one.
I agree! The first was the one I chose because of the description of the challenge, the second for what I thought was a free spirit
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Love both photos…and their sort of mystical qualities.
Thank you, Jane. You never know exactly what will show up on a photo, right? And I love digital cameras: you can take pictures without worrying about the film getting used up – yes, I’m from that generation
Love the photograph of the little girl. Where was it taken?
It was here in the Netherlands. The girl was playing on top of a green hilly meadow. I zoomed in to make this picture.
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Excellent entry. Thanks for sharing
So nice of you to drop in
Really nice game of light and focus! I also like the green “sub-theme”
Thanks! I wished I could just take photos of children, but am afraid that I would be attacked by their parents
When I meet dog owners I always ask if I can take pictures of their pet. And mostly they are proud and allow it.
LOL! True
but then again, you clearly do it from an artistic point of view. I suppose parents would be proud of their children too? 
Hmmm, you may be right. Perhaps I’ll ask them next time hehehe.