Week 3 | 52 Photo Project

This week's prompt was something I thought would be super easy. Being a natural light photographer, I didn't think twice. Yet, here it was Saturday night, the day before the new prompt goes up, and I started getting worried about getting a shot. Sadly, it's been so gloomy here that it's been hard to pick up the camera to photograph much. So I waited. Waited for a sunny day. Then waited for something cool to strike me to photograph for this week. Nothing. 

Then tonite, while thinking quickly about it, I decided I've never taken photos in the dark/with a single light source. Which led me to this capture. It's not perfect, but it says what our nighttime routine was at this point in time. Lights on in our TMNT bed tent so I could turn on his lullabies for him to fall asleep to. I suggested grabbing the pop light that came with the tent to help mom get "some" amount of light into this to try to expose in the dark! It did help, and while it's not perfect, it's perfectly imperfect. Just the way life is right now. 

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Project 52: Week 2

Hi there! I'm back, just in time because next week's prompt goes up tomorrow. Phew. I was waiting for the right moment and idea behind the prompt for this week which is STORYTELLING. I realize that this could go so many ways, but I figured I'd tell my "story" of how I spend most of my days.

My oldest is in school, so he's away but that leaves me with my youngest (when he's not in school...it's our last year of being together almost all day every day - it's the big K next year).

I wanted to tell our story in one photo. I think this sums up most of our days. Playing in pajamas.

I wish I could reiterate the conversations and pretend play that goes along with this image. He reenacts the scenes from TMNT episodes and then adds in his own flair. It's pretty funny to listen from the other room. He loves his turtles. If he's not playing turtles, he's coloring turtles, or pretending to be  in training like the turtles with his shell and sword, sais or bostaff. It's really cute that he gets so into the characters. This is his story. And mine.

I hope you stay connected with me via the blog or my Facebook page, as I'll be sharing the images I photograph for this project. At the end of the year, I will be making these into a photo book for myself. I cannot wait to see what I photograph this year.

Happy 2015!

Happy 2015 to everyone!! I have big ideas and plans for this year, including many personal and professional goals of mine that I'm anxious to dive into. One of them was the desire to start a personal photography project. There are two types I've come across in the recent years. One is a 365 project, which is just like it sounds. You take a photograph every day for an entire year. It helps to inspire you by seeking out new and fresh things to photograph daily, learning to embrace getting that one photo for each day regardless your schedule, and to better your skills all around. I wanted to start a bit smaller scale than that. That is a big undertaking for me at the moment, so I opted to start with a Project 52. You take a photo based on a prompt for that week and photograph it! It's one photo a week. For me, that was much easier to commit to. That means I have an entire week to find something/someone that inspires that prompt.

I chose to join in on My Four Hens Photography project this year, or M4H Project 52. It's amazing to see the other fabulous images that are shared on her Facebook group already!! And I'm only in the first week.

This week's prompt is FRESH. Well, I could have taken so many different photos, but my week has been a bit crazy, so I decided to bake a cake today. Yes, I did actually bake the cake for this prompt, BUT in my defense, I did have overripe bananas that I needed to use, so that's the other reason for baking the cake. Hey, when a creative mind gets an idea, you just roll with it.

I did. I baked it, served it as an afternoon snack for myself and my two kids after my oldest got home from school, tossed some raspberries on the plate for um, nutritional value (totally had NOTHING to do with the color or anything), and snapped away. Here is the image that I loved.

I hope you stay connected with me via the blog or my Facebook page, as I'll be sharing the images I photograph for this project. At the end of the year, I will be making these into a photo book for myself. I cannot wait to see what I photograph this year.