My Oldest is going to her dance tonight..so pretty..growing up so fast!
P52~Weeks 19 & 20~
I’m actually ahead! I have this week’s theme for you, “sunflare“with my semi willing model who decided to roll in the cut grass {right after I had just brushed her of course 
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and just happened to capture week 20 theme “Once upon a time”:
“Once upon a time” there were three clever birds…
and again as we were making our way home from the beach….
Once Upon a time bananas were cars…..
Project 52~catching up! Weeks 17 and 18~
Life always gets super busy as the end of school nears and spring and summer sport seasons overlap! I’ve crammed a lot into this weekend to try to get back on track!
Week 17~long exposure~
Ok, this was hard to try and achieve shots like this! I really just played around with my settings and mostly came up empty!
It was fun to try though so I will keep messing around with it
Week 18~Letters~
My take on the theme “letters” the inscription from the Civil War cannon replica at the state capitol
Project 12 April~Shooting through Glass~
A little behind, but was able to squeeze my attempt at this theme “shooting through glass” this weekend as my students competed in the State National History Day Competition……
The museum was beautiful and my students did a great job! I was late to the circle so I had them link around me, however you can still check out how everyone else shot through glass by starting with Claire
Project 52~week 16~ bokeh
This week’s theme is bokeh. I wanted to really spend time on this one, but of course the best laid plans tend to never really happen! Instead, since we had such a beautiful day today, AND we actually didn’t have 500 places to be, we decided to get a lot of our own yard-work done, so my plans to find sparkly light were not happening lol . We took a “break” by making a quick trip over to a farm that allowed us to pick our own strawberries..delicious, or maybe bokehlicious 
Note the cell phone never out of Oldest’s hand, even when searching for the perfect berry !
Thanks for taking a peek! Next week my monthly blog circle is coming due..I thought I was already prepared for it then realized I read the wrong theme so I have to start all over! gah!
Oh well, now I’m ready for the following month! Have a great week!
Project 52~Weeks 14 (Night) & 15 (Woods)
So things have been a little crazy busy here..between work for me, husband’s work & trainings, kids sporting/school/music events, and pup’s torn acl I have had limited time to get out and shoot anything at all so I am of course behind on this project 52..so today I’m catching up
Week 14 theme is “night”. While I love looking at moody night and low light photography I am actually terrible at it. Part of it is my camera can not get a high enough ISO to take a decent picture (my camera only goes to 1600), although I know that many would argue “no, it can be done!”, that is where the second part of why I am terrible at low-light/night photography comes in..I do not have the time to try and figure out how to push past my camera’s limitations to take good low-light shots and the noise @ 1600 frustrates me to no end. With that all explained you can understand why I’ve “cheated” for this weeks theme ….
This picture just reminds me of “night” since all of a sudden mass flocks of swifts start looking for places to bed down!
Week 15 theme of “woods” was fun! We went as a family to a (“new” to us at least) Nature center and preserve that was pretty cool! It had some amazing oak trees (that of course Youngest had to try and climb)!
Thanks for stopping by! Next week’s theme is bokeh..always fun to play around with
Project 12~March: Interesting Perspectives~
The theme of interesting perspectives was challenging this month! There was lots to read up on for this and some of the things I tried (based off of the reading) didn’t exactly work out but we had fun trying it out lol
The shots below are inspired by this site about forced perspectives…here I am pouring Youngest out of a water bottle..kind of 
Forced perspective was frustratingly hilarious! I also captured some things from the perspective of the pup….
Gone fishin’
Garden Supervisor
Wrestlemania
Love
Life is good from her perspective
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Happy Easter
March Artist Study
Every Month on Clickin Moms there is something called “Artist Study”. There are things to do to study the artist’s work then using that inspiration go shoot This month is the first time I’ve tried it because the inspiration image was by one of my all time favs, Monet:
I really noticed the color reflected in the water and the movement in this painting, so I headed out on a dog walk with Youngest to see if I could capture some of it; here is what I came up with:
The “teacher” created a Monet action to utilize for this month which I’ve applied to the pictures above..not normally what I would use but I think it does help “Monet” these pics a bit. The second image resonates the most with me..probably because of the tree placement and reflection in the water, not to mention the buds that scream SPRING…but I love the movement in the water in the first image (although I’m not loving the colors in this one as much), what is your take on this?
Do you have a favorite artist you like to draw inspiration from? I will probably do this exercise again if the “teacher” picks another artist that resonates, it was fun, despite my pup not cooperating and trying to drag me away before I could click lol
P52~week 13~ Urban
Urban Morning Treat
