Writer’s workshop: Need For Refocusing
White bloom
I’ve always been interested in taking photographs of flora. Each time we go to the park. I try to snap pictures of the flowers that I see. Unfortunately on most occasions I do not have my DSLR with me and I have to make do with my HTC phone camera.
A few weeks ago we brought the kids to have a spin on the Go Kart at West Coast Park. While riding around in the park I saw a few tropical blooms. Using the filter- depth of field on my hand phone I snapped the above shot. I was focusing on the center of the flower and the filter helped to blur out the surrounding only living what I was focusing on clear.
Sometimes I feel that one needs to temporary blur out the surroundings to be able to refocus. I find that this approach has been serving me well. Very often our vision can get clouded on the way and it can be difficult to keep our aim on our focus. To be able to trudge one one has to sometimes to take time out to refocus to ensure that what we are working for is still our aim.
How do you refocus?
August 22, 2013 @ 4:52 pm
What a wonderful idea, I tend to turn to my bible and start a journal. It helps me to write down my situation so that one day I can look back and see how God has worked through issues
August 23, 2013 @ 11:54 am
Amen to this! I hope you do it! God bless!
August 22, 2013 @ 9:34 pm
How very elegant! ~ sometimes we all need to ‘refocus’ ~ beautiful photo ~ thanks, carol, xo
August 22, 2013 @ 10:37 pm
nature is my go to place to refocus…
August 23, 2013 @ 7:06 am
Nice flower. Wonder what it is?
August 23, 2013 @ 7:30 am
@Freda,
I think it is called Tiger Lily.
August 23, 2013 @ 11:59 am
There are so many things in our lives that doesn’t really need our 100% attention but is there… like gadgets, materials things and others…it’s an accessories of life i think…but sometimes these made us loose our focus and it grab the opportunity for us to see the real beauty of life..we really need to focus…like your picture.
August 24, 2013 @ 2:09 am
A personal reflection with where I am in my life now is my way to refocus.
August 24, 2013 @ 7:42 pm
I do find that stopping to refocus every once in a while helps with a lot of things. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with work and all the pressures there are, but breathing in and allowing myself to refocus usually plucks me out of a potential depressing cycle.
August 25, 2013 @ 12:23 am
Heh heh… I was about to comment, when I noticed one of your ads below talk about Syd-Seoul flights, and subconsciously went to click on it.
So I guess I refocus and re-energize and re-charge by going on trips! 😛
August 25, 2013 @ 9:29 am
Like you I also love taking pictures of flowers but I don’t bring my dslr always, so bulky and heavy, I only rely on my phone. I agree with you that sometimes we have to blur everything in our surrounding and start refocusing for a better path.
August 26, 2013 @ 7:40 pm
I’m not really good in camera details that’s why I own a point and shoot camera. I also want to learn how to do manual adjustments in the future if I have the time to learn them 🙂
August 29, 2013 @ 10:57 am
That photograph is beautiful…
I couldn’t agree more about the need to refocus ourselves…
Sometimes I find it necessary to refocus several times a day!
Nifty post for the letter “N”!
Thanks for linking.
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