Blogger Highlight-Leanne Cole

Thank you for all the great feedback on the Blogger Highlight series over the past two years. I’ve enjoyed meeting each blogger and sharing their site with you. This week, we highlight Leanne Cole’s blog. I have followed Leanne for a long time and am amazed by every photo she posts. I’m drawn to her infrared photos; they are like no other I’ve seen. She lives to take photos and challenges herself to get the best of each one.

Leanne Cole

Trying to live a creative life

This is about me and this blog is about my photography and what I’m trying to achieve with my photography.

Ultimately I am a middle-aged woman who loves making the world into my vision.

I’ve been taking photos for over 25 years. That’s if you count from first SLR, though I have been taking photos all my life and got my first camera when I was around 10.

Photography was expensive and I wasn’t allowed to do a lot. We didn’t have a lot of money for that sort of thing.

While doing that I was also drawing as much as I could. Being an artist was something I really wanted. I was born to be an artist.

All photos are copyrighted to Leanne Cole, she was generous enough to allow me to include a few photos.

Questions I asked LeAnne

M. Is there a type of photography you would like to improve on?

L. Most definitely, I want to get a lot better at still-life photography. I really think I suck at it, and I love paintings of still life, so I want to get better at it.

M. What is your favorite type of photo and why?

L. I love architecture and macro flowers. Why, I don’t really know why. I love macro because I can do it in my garden. I’ve spent a few years trying to get my garden to a stage where I have flowers in it and can take photos out in it.

I think I like architecture because I can do a lot of work to the images in Photoshop. I love working an image and taking it from what the camera sees to what I want to see.

A recent favorite post is Looking at the Mallee through the lens of an Infrared Camera. Leanne’s infrared camera captures more than light can ever express. Be sure to check the entire collection of photos in the post.