Photo Friday – Do Over
This week’s Photo Challenge was to do over a previous challenge. The hardest part was deciding which one to redo; there were so many that I wanted to fix! But, as I was making a cup of tea and thinking about the photo that I wanted to do, I looked …
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Photo Friday – Shutter Zoom
This week’s Photo Challenge was the use of a technique to purposely make a photo blurry. I started out my amateur photo career in what was essentially photo journalism as staff photographer and then photo editor for my high school yearbook so my reaction to this challenge was “Why the heck …
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Photo Friday – Board Game
This week’s challenge was to shoot a picture of a board game. Amazingly, it was also the week my DH decided to teach our 3 year old how to play checkers. I have some cute pictures of the two of them over a game board, but my DH and I …
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Photo Friday – Mirror Image
The challenge this week was to create a mirror image in Photoshop. It took me several tries to get the initial image right so I got a lot of practice mirroring! Credit here is also due to the Sedona Sun Day Spa for the lovely manicure. I thought about doing …
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Photo Friday – Abandoned
This week’s challenge was “Abandoned.” We had a great old car parked out in one of the back fields of the farm where I grew up that would have been wonderful for this, but that car’s probably long gone and that field is someone’s yard now. Instead, I took a …
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Photo Friday – Black and White
I love black and white photography. It might be nostalgia because many years ago when I first learned photography, I shot in black and white, developed my own film, and printed my own pictures. I loved being in a dark room and working with film and prints. I wish this …
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Photo Friday – Forks
Yes, you read that right. The theme for this week was “Forks.” I was not amused. But, then I realized that I could do something cool and have a great picture to hang on the blank space on the wall in my kitchen. The lesson this week also involved some …
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Photo Friday – One Shape
This week’s task was to photograph one shape. I fudged the assignment a bit because it should have been literally one shape, not a repetition of the same kind of shape, but one heart wouldn’t have done very much for me.
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Photo Friday – Tack Sharp
I struggled with this week’s assignment for my photo challenge class because I kept forgetting to change the settings on my camera. The assignment was to get a sharply focused photo, one that was “tack sharp,” which is hard to do if you have the wrong ISO. So, not my …
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Photo Friday – Windows
The challenge for this past week in my Ricky Tims’ 2016 Photo Challenge class was “windows.” A few minutes after I finished reading the lesson, I hopped up to walk down the hall, walked past my laundry room, stopped, backed up, and noticed this window. (The caption is exactly what …
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