I made these blur photos at Montgomery County Community College (where I go to work on poetry on Marathon days) back in April, 2019, when the trees were still bare but the lilacs were blooming.
You’ve seen my blur photos before. To make them, I move the camera around as the picture snaps. Best results come when the light is low and the shutter moves more slowly. I use a point and shoot camera – if you have one in which you set the exposure, a slow speed will work great. Try it, it’s fun to see what you get. Many photos will be worthless, but every so often a really nice one reliably comes along. Just keep pressing that button and waving the camera.
Claudia McGill and Her Art World 
It strikes me that your blurred photos are studies in visual texture that then connects to a lot of the work you do in your art.
Thank you. I also wonder how when I choose the photos to keep and the ones to erase, what aesthetic is prompting me and I enjoy looking for a theme or a visual thread, I think as with my other avenues of art I am being more and more drawn to the impressions of things rather than their details.
Ah yes – I like this technique. It can make you consider colour and tonal depth more and line and overall form less, all virtually at an instant. Thanks for the reminder, just what I needed on a dreary Monday morning here.
Thank you and you are welcome. I find as I get more involved in photography (meaning, I took more pictures, not that I am by any means really “involved” with it enough to know anything much!) I am not interested in taking shots of what is (unless I’m doing it for a reference photo or the like) but what kind of off type of things I can get the camera to do or I can do with it. It takes looking at things a little differently. I like that, it’s adventurous and yet can be done anywhere.
The world without glasses. I love them. (K)
Yes. When I had my cataracts removed and the new lenses put in I lost my extreme nearsighted vision. I miss it though it’s safer for me to have eyes that are more functional in more situations. Maybe that is a reason I like these blur photos???!
Could be. My eyes keep changing, year to year it seems. Now I see better far than close. Who knows what next year will bring?