Saturday, May 19, 2018

A Moment in Time - Bali

A peaceful moment in time...or so it seems. 

We only spent one day on the beach in Bali, and were there along with about a hundred of our closest friends. The day was hot and humid, the midday sun was bright and moving across a cloudless sky, bleaching out most colors. Not good conditions for landscape photography, but I knew I had to come away with at least one beach photo. I noticed this pergola with hanging lanterns and draped in matching fabric. I thought this might add some color and interest to an otherwise boring and 'high key' like scene. It was a miracle there were no people directly in front of me, (they were everywhere else on the beach). Just as I was quickly composing my shot, using the pergola as a 'frame', this lady strolled into my picture and stopped long enough for me to use her as my subject of interest! She almost looks like a model purposefully posing for the camera, but she had no idea I was taking her picture! (I did do a bit of editing to lighten and even out the color to enhance a high key look.)

4 comments:

Lady Fi said...

Lovely shot!

Margaret Birding For Pleasure said...

WOW! This is superb shot. Now i am wondering woujld it be possible for me to use this shot to encourage peope to write a sotry about it in Words for Wednesday? It woud not be until next year I would need the image so perhaps you could think about that and let me know. OPease emai me at margaretadamson@mail.com

Author R. Mac Wheeler said...

love these last two shots.

Nancy J said...

Beautiful, and the gauzy drapes, the turquoise, and one lady, everything just right at the time.