Shades of Green 📸 🍃 🔎

Have you ever noticed how many different versions of green are in your immediate environment?

What will I need? 

1. Camera or smartphone.

2. Timer (can be on your phone)

Steps:

1. Set a timer for 3 to 15 minutes – your choice how long.

2. Walk around inside or outside.

3. Use a camera or phone to take pictures of anything you see that’s green.

4. After the timer ends, click the “heart” button for this post to track your progress and let us know you did this one.

5. and if you’re so inclined, choose your favorite photo to share with the chat or just with friends.

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Tips, Guidance, Inspiration and Science

Want to keep going?

1. Try it at different times of the day, or take photos throughout the day during breaks.

2. Make a digital collage from your pictures.

3. Send a few photos to a friend and see if they can guess what they are.

Help! I’m stuck!

1. First, remember: this exercise is about observation and discovery, not professional photography. 

2. If you’re inside, go outside. If you’re outside go inside.

3. Open your fridge.

4. Open a book.

What’s the science? 

1.  Photography can increase positive feelings. (Diehl, et al 2016)

Standing on the shoulders of giants

This was suggested by Messier advisor and bad ass nature photographer Gunthar Hartwig.

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment." - Claude Monet