PhotoFriday #1 ME!

It's been a really long time since I've been weekly putting effort into specific photography skills and, I have to say, I felt a bit rusty! I have three pictures that I am submitting. The first one is a black and white. My goal was to take a mirror shot without being able to see the camera.



Since this is an intro post, the most exciting thing about me is that I am a newlywed, so I added the next two pictures to show how happy I am in my life now. When I listen to him fill our home with music, I often think to myself that I am living the dream. Here are my three pics. Enjoy!





I also had to post the bonus photo of sassiness.

Challenge #50 Thrift!

I loved this challenge because I'm a naturally thrifty person. One instance that really stood out to me as a thrifty moment was cooking beans on the side of the road with a propane tank because $2.00 was too expensive at McDonald's.

Photo Challenge #49 Faces

Challenge #49

This week's assignment:

Find faces/facial expressions in inanimate objects.

Submit 1-5 photos

Tweaking allowed.

Have Fun!!

I realize that I am SUPER late on this picture. I've been busy planning a wedding and teaching in the after school program. I did a few things with photo shop on the pics, but when I tried to upload them, I gave up after 40 minutes for 1 picture, so I went back to the original.

Challenge #47-Minimalism

Christmas Challenge #45

Christmas Journal
One of my favorite parts of the Christmas season is the Christmas tree with all of it's beautiful ornaments. This year, I especially liked the ornaments. :-) Enjoy!

My sister helped with the final one by telling me when the ring was in the focus box.

Challenge #42-The Sky

Challenge #42

This week we'll do a *somewhat* simple challenge. Submit 1-3 images at the end of this week of creative images of the sky. These can be edited/tweaked,cropped in any way. Hope you have fun with this one!

This week I was actually inspired by a challenge that Erin Jo did back in July. (Check out her stars and stripes!) I loved her stars and decided that I wanted to be cool like her, so I put on my warm clothes, and my dear sweetheart drove me out to the country to get some shots of the stars.
Without further delay...here is my entry!

Challenge #39: Shooting Blind

This week I thought I'd do a bit of a technical challenge to see how well we know our cameras, and what we can learn from doing something a little bit different.

The Challenge:

Shooting Blind

The subject matter is completely up to you, but you are only allowed 10 shots. For 5 of those shots you can look through your view finder. For the other 5 resist the urge and shoot them without the use of your viewfinder or screen. Sometimes when a photographer is working a unique location it can be hard to get the shot you want because you're eyeball can't go where the camera can. This is an exercise to help you learn how the camera can be an extension of your eyes.

Submit your favorite photo from each set of 5.

I almost didn't do this weeks challenge, but as I was taking pictures of a project that my class is doing, my eye stopped on a fabric backdrop that my kids were using to put pictures of themselves flying in the sky. I decided to use it as my challenge. Since I had kids working as the time and the last time that I chose personal photography over my classroom management, a student was bitten by another student, I didn't take mass amounts of time on the project, but I do really like the 2 pictures that I chose.

This was the favorite one from my blind shots.


Here is my favorite from the looking set.