Photochallenge Week 21: Composition - Symmetry

I've lived in my house for 9 years and it took 8 for me to get something to hang over the couch in my living room. I do love the piece I ended up with though, and it's so pretty with all of the candles lit up at night.

 

I played with post-processing this week, since the picture itself isn't all too exciting. I added some texture to the wall and took it down to a chrome black and white. I think it makes the iron pop a little more than the original picture.

 

Photochallenge.org Week 20: Landscape - Minimalist

I really struggled with the theme this week. I ended up taking some pictures of my pond at work. I'm not thrilled with the result, but it meets the theme and I didn't miss a week, which is my own challenge to myself.

 

Camerashy Week 20: Random

 

Grrrrrrr....

 

I openly admit that I hate general topics like this one. What in the world does "random" even mean? Now I have 14,000 different direction to go in. That's no good for anyone.

 

I really wanted to be smart and compose some kind of shot with a random color, figure, or item in the mix. But, then I thought about my life and realized there was no way I could pull that off this week, so I just started taking pictures. As usual, that gets the creative juices flowing, and I did end up with something.

Here's a "random" picture of my cherry tomato plant that I've been growing this season. I like this shot because of the three tomatoes that line up, and I've embraced the theme by convincing myself that a random one is red.

 

 

And yes, I know I'm behind in my blogging. I will post the past couple of pics that I've missed, but I didn't want to put it off again this week and make myself more behind. I'm a mom of two you know, sometimes I get a little busy. ;-)

Photochallenge.org Week 19: Nature & Wildlife - Mother Nature

This week I chaperoned my son's 1st grade field trip to Sea World. We had a great time. With such an open theme this week I decided to use the opportunity to submit a picture of a creature not many of us get to see on a daily basis.

 

This is a sea anenome. I'm actually really happy with this picture since it was taken through the glass of the aquarium. I didn't use a flash since it just would have reflected off the glass.

 

I love sea creatures. I wanted to be a marine biologist forever and ever, but life just didn't work out that way. I think the beautiful things that lay beneath the ocean's surface just open up a world that we could never even imagine!!

 

 

Photochallenge Week 19: Pure

Pure Power!!

 

On my son's 1st grade field trip this week, we went to Sea World; and you can't take a group of 7 year olds to Sea World without seeing Shamu.

 

Regardless of your thoughts on Sea World or Orca captivity, you can't deny that these animals are beyond powerful. They have an amazing beauty to them. I captured this right before they came down with enough strength to drench the entire class. I however, stayed safely behind the "you may get wet" line. :)

 

Photochallenge.org Week 18: Still Life - Books

I love books, and I always have. I have a thing for a real life book. E-books are fine and dandy and I do have several of those, but I love a good book you can hold in your hand. I love the smell of a new book.

I also love to reading in bed. For this weeks challenge I decided to use that as a jumping point and use just the light from the book lamp as the light of the picture.

 

 

Camera Shy Week 18: Down

Down

 

I had a little help from my son this week. I took advantage of him playing outside on his playset to get my "down" picture of the week.

Here he is going "down" the slide. :)

 

 

 

Camerashy Week 17: Markings

The "Markings" of a Runner

 

I did it!!!

At the beginning of the year I signed up to run a 5K at Disney's Animal Kingdom. It was a birthday present to myself since it was on the same weekend as my birthday. I was nervous, since I'm not a runner, if I would be able to make it, but I did pretty good.

 

I ran as a two person team with my sister. In addition to the 5K there was a scavenger hunt afterwards that was also timed. Then the two times were added together for our final time. We actually did pretty decent, right in the middle of the pack.

 

Since we were going to be running I didn't have my good camera on me, but I did use my phone to capture some of the night. We made some "markings" on this big poster that we could sign as participates.

 

But my main submission for this week's theme is the last I'm posting here. My bib and my medal.

 

 

 

Photochallenge Week 17: Composition - Leading Lines

 

I have a love/hate relationship this big Sycamore tree in my front yard. It's so tall and beautiful during the spring and summer. I love how all the branches lead up to the sky. This is the view from underneath looking up.

My hate relationship is the fact that come September every single leaf starts to come down, and there are a lot of leaves!! All fall and winter long my yard is a leaf graveyard. Raking is hopeless as for everyone you get up, three more fall in the next 20 minutes. My neighbors also love the fact that many of the leaves make it into their yards as well.

Regardless, it's still a great tree and I'm glad to have it.