intimacy with a birdhouse

     I feel like I had sex with this birdhouse.  I now know it from every single angle and I'll never look at it the same way again.  Today I decided to have a "familiar subject" redo with a something that doesn't move, and I've been courting this little birdhouse from afar for a couple weeks, since I started the Kat Eye course. Here was my funny little romp in the yard.

Well, that's a scene that turns out to be more complicated through the lens than it was from the window.  Phone wire, too many objects on the bench.  From what I'm learning, I took out some clutter to simplify.

 But it still wasn't enough.  

Now the cheese stands alone.  Rule of thirds alone couldn't help me, though.

Tried a different angle... hmm.  Meh.

Getting more intimate... now we're getting somewhere.

Even closer.... Took about 100 of these.  

Let's look at it from a different angle - I usually get "stuck" or caught up in one angle, like with the little rocking chair.  It took this assignment to remind me to stand up or lie down or SOMETHING.

Which of course drew me into the bench...

Which to me turned out to be as interesting as the birdhouse.  There's that wood/texture thing cropping up again.

And while I was over there, surprise! Look at that cute miniature log pile and those nice bench lines.

Let's try a totally different angle.. now I'm lying down in the dirt and another surprise through the lens- a lovely late afternoon light through the trees, that really evokes the feeling of this little corner of the world.

After all of that, in the end it wasn't the bench, the house on the bench, the whole scene, or any other elements that really evoke the feeling I felt when I looked out the window at the little house. It was this tiny detail that I fell in love with, and when I look at it, I feel serene and drawn to go outside and sit on the bench:

There were so many surprises on this multi-angle journey... One new angle leading to a new detail which led to another and another... I loved it!