Honored

One of the elements of the World Wide Photo Walk is to submit your favorite photo of the day.  One photo from each group gets chosen to go on to be submitted for the larger competition.  I just about didn't bother submitting one this year.  With three kiddos around I was having a hard enough time getting my photos edited.  But one night, two days before the link closed, I had enough time to edit them and I made Bryan choose which one to submit.  This afternoon I randomly went on the website to see the other photos that were submitted and low and behold mine was chosen as the best of our group!  I was astonished, excited, and very honored.

There were only five photos submitted from our group, but to have mine chosen was pretty fun!

Blessings

World Wide Photo Walk 2013

This was the third year I participated in Scott Kelbey's World Wide Photo Walk.  This year there were over 1300 walks and just about 28,000 people walking around the world.  It is so much fun to walk around for two hours with other photographers just taking pictures.  This year I really wanted to go somewhere I hadn't been before and the two I was looking at were either up in BC or at the southern end of Whidbey Island.  Bryan decided to come along and watch the kids while I went on the walk and then we could spend the rest of the day together and I wouldn't have to drag Lisa with me on the walk or leave four bottles behind for Bryan to feed her.  It turned about the be a beautifully sunny day!

Here are a few of my favorites from the two hour walk:

Langley, WA is an extremely artsy town.  Just about every home had some kind of art in their yard, mostly rustic and antique but some other types as well.  It was fun to have some fresh subjects to photograph.

Blessings

World Wide Photo Walk

Well, I finally had a chance to sort/edit my pictures from our Saturday photo walk.  It was such a blast!  Alyssa and I laughed so much, enjoyed seeing new perspectives, playing around with photography, and not being called "MOMMY" for a whole afternoon.  It was delightful.

When we parted that evening I told her this week looked slower...ha ha.  All of a sudden it's Wednesday evening and I feel like we've been running solid.  Monday was busy grocery shopping, cleaning up from the weekend, generally organizing the week ahead and haircuts in the evening.  Tuesday I made apple sauce for 13 hours (another post, probably tomorrow) and Bryan went back to work for another three hours after supper, this morning was Bible study and this afternoon was pictures and running errands and Bryan went back to work and is still not home.  I wonder how our slow-laundry-day-Thursday will turn out...

Anyway, back to Saturday's photo walk.  Here are some of my favorites.  One thing I really discovered, as in I knew but it really sunk in, is that I love macro photography.  I love being able to capture details.  I did a lot of experimenting also with textures, shapes, sizes, contrasts, etc.

It's 9:45pm and Bryan just got home so it's time to be done.
Blessings

November Photo Hunt Challenge

At the beginning of the month I wrote that there were two photo challenges I was trying out.  The first was Scavenger Hunt Sunday and the second now is Photo Hunt Challenge.  Usually there are a list of 20 words/descriptions to interpret through photography, but for November and December there will be only 10 so this was a perfect month for me to try it out.  I had a blast, but it was a challenge taking different pictures for both Scavenger and Photo Hunt and not reuse them for both.  (A criteria I set up for myself, although I did allow myself to double up on two photos.)  Anyway, here are my entries for the November Photo Hunt Challenge.
Enjoy.

1. Home Sweet Home (archived photo from October)

2. Thankful

3. Family
I don't really like this picture, but I wanted to save the one that turned out really well for my Christmas card.

4. I Ate This
(I also made this for our Thanksgiving dinner.)

5. A Turkey
This is an antique turkey candle that was passed down to me from Bryan's grandmother.

6. Something Hand-Made
An afghan I'm in the process of making.

7. Something Hot
A steamed up window after a HOT shower on a cold morning.

8. Something Cold
'Nuff said!

9. Something Orange
One of the most orange sunsets I've seen in a while.

10. Anything Goes
An old kerosene lantern Bryan's grandfather used to have in his shop. (I used CoffeeShop's Vintage Newspaper Action on it.)

Head on over to Photo Hunt Challenge to see some really amazing photography!