{"id":2116,"date":"2013-01-03T18:52:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2013-01-03T18:52:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:52:30","slug":"i-dont-have-much-but-i-have-the-whole-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"I don’t have much, but I have the whole sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the category “Things my camera taught me,” today’s lesson is simple: The whole sky belongs to you. <\/p>\n

My photo of the day is titled, “like fire needs oxygen.”<\/p>\n

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I used the photo prompt as the title. When I saw that the prompt was “like fire needs oxygen,” I had no idea what to do, but I knew I wanted to do something whimsical. I considered first one thing and another until my eyes landed on a box of candy canes that I should have gotten rid of over Christmas and somehow did not. That was all I needed to decide I wanted to photograph a candy cane heart against the sky. Hearts need all kinds of things, granted, but they sure do need sunshine in both the literal and metaphorical varieties. <\/p>\n

I said I wanted to write a series of lessons I’d learned from doing my photo 365 projects, and this is one of them. If you’ve got nothing else to work with, you’ve got the sky. <\/p>\n

One good thing about my first 365 project was that I did it as a social project. I joined a group on Flickr (Our Daily Challenge, the same one where I got today’s prompt), and I got to follow other people’s photos as I took my own. I’m sure that I learned from observation to make use as the sky for photo backgrounds. It’s a common way to make a clean, uncluttered photo full of light and\/or shadow, or whatever else you want. <\/p>\n

Here are some of my older photos where I claimed the sky as my own.<\/p>\n

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