2015 Week 8: Awake

This has been one of the busiest weeks I've had in awhile, and today was no exception. I had several ideas for this theme, but I didn't end up getting any of them done.

Today though, I found my shot. We went to the Plant City Strawberry Festival and had several "Awake" moments. 

Awake moment #1 - my 16 month old didn't sleep a wink, not once. For a girlie who takes two naps a day - that's a big deal.

Awake moment #2 - we stayed out way later than we normally would on a Sunday (especially with a girl who took no naps), but we had a FANTASTIC time and I got to play around with my camera and ended up with some great shots. Here are a few of my favorite from the day. The last one is my official submission for the week.

2015 Week 7: Round

Since the next few months are about to revolve around it, I decided to use Baseball as my subject for this weeks theme. I ended up with four photos that I liked, all a little different. I ended up choosing just the ball for my submission. Here's all of them:

2015 Week 4: Outdoor Photography - Man Made in Nature

I took my kids down to a local park area today thinking I'd have to spend awhile looking for a photo that fit the theme, but lo' and behold, I found something right away. I did take about 20 pictures of the bridge, but I like what I ended up with....

2015 Week 4: Glass

The theme this week over at my #Take52 challenge Glass. 

I have these two blue glass pitchers from my mom. I don't really know how old they are, but they feel old to me. I love the color and knew I wanted to showcase them for this week once I saw the theme.

I had so much fun playing around with these pictures in editing! I applied a little bit of a vintage feel to the originals, as I felt it added to the tone I was going for. As always, I had a few favorites. I LOVE the reflection one, but there are parts of that picture that distract from the glass itself in my opinion. Because of that, I opted for this first one as my official submission. I love the way the handle of the smaller pitcher looks.

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Week 4: Glass

2015 Week 3: Entrance

An Entrance Into Her World

Last fall, during this challenge, another participant posted an entry and talked about taking more editorial like photos of her kids... I really liked the thought of that, and have been trying to do more of that myself. Over the past few months I've taken some pictures of my daughter that I feel meet that challenge and decided to use this week as another opportunity to do so....

The first picture is my entry for this weeks challenge. The rest are just some of my favorite pictures over the last few months.

2015 Week 3: Outdoor Photography - Trees

Okay, my favorite theme - outside!! No flash to worry about, a million possibilities, nobody saying you look bad in the picture you took of them.

I was out at the Florida National Cemetery today and decided to take a few pictures that met the theme. I ended up with three options I liked. As I write this, I'm still not sure which I'll make my submission for the week. I'm going to post all three here and I guess I'll have to decide eventually.

2015 Week 2: Numbers - 10 and Under

So a twist in themes this year over at photochallenge.org. Number themes once every 4 weeks... I know this is going to take some creativity. Originally I thought about doing golf balls, or Rylie's stacking buckets that are numbered. On Thursday, with no shot taken yet, I noticed a stray soccer ball while hanging out at practice with Jordan. I snapped a few pics with my phone, just in case, and ended up really loving the end result. I didn't even take pictures of anything else. 

2015 Week 2: Local

The symbol of the city that I live in is a swan. In addition to swans that live in the lakes around the city, our downtown has several unique swan statues that are located in front of different businesses. I took pictures of a few of them today and I'm using my favorite of the bunch as my submission for this week's CameraShy Take52 challenge.

This is something I think is very "local" to me. I know that these can't be found anywhere else but in my city.

My official submission for the challenge.

Some real swans swimming in the lake.

My helper while we walked around downtown.

Visit my flickr page for more photos from today's outing: https://www.flickr.com/photos/113552105@N07/

2015 Week 1: Beginning

When I saw this them I immediately knew what I wanted to shoot. Thank goodness I live in Florida and could actually get what I needed to make it happen! I did have two alternates though, in case idea #1 didn't work out. But, I like what I ended up with.

Seeds - the beginning of so many things! These ones will end up as flowers.

Option #2 - the beginning of my day today, two poached eggs on toast.

Option #3 - the beginning of some peaches on my peach tree. Just blossoms now,

2015 Week 1 - Macro: Kitchen

Yes, I'm back to the ol' photo challenge. I was so disappointed in myself come September. The last third of 2014 was so overwhelming for me so I missed a few weeks and ended up stopping. What I did do - take pictures for money!! Can you believe it? So, this year my goal is to finish these two challenges as a whole, and continue to slowly grow my actual $$ making options with portraits. We'll see how it goes.

Okay, so here's week one of the photochallenge.org challenge. Looks like we're going to have a Macro challenge every month. So, while I did get a nice new flash for Christmas, I am still lacking in the Macro lens challenge. Thus, the poor, poor mans macro.... A close up with my telephoto lense, cropped. Shhh!! Don't tell anyone. It's the only way I'll make it through the next 11 macro challenges.

Here's my official submission:

And as I always do, here's the #2 option: