Quiet challenge

Quiet... Peaceful... very little noise (until the gun is fired). A time to relax. A time to hear your own thoughts and feelings and a chance to glance out at what a beautiful world we live in. I love being out in the outdoors with my husband. I love hiking in quietness and hearing the branches and leaves crunch under my feet. I love to look out and see the wildlife.. I love the quiet nights and seeing the many constellations in the sky like a blanket. What a beautiful place.

Life is beautiful

This week was a challenge for me because so many things in my life are beautiful and I couldn't figure out how to express them in photography. Thanks to {Life through the lens} .

Round diptych

This challenge was easy and fun!! I really like how these two pictures commpliment each other. This little girl Rylee is a doll and I love how her mouth is in the shape of round as well as the dots on her dress. I love it. Very SWEET!

318 photography is on the left and mine is the one on the right:)

Next weeks challenge is "Friday Night" This will be a blast!

Journey...... Life

This weeks challenge for {life through a lens} is Journey! I really enjoyed this... I can't wait for the next challenge!

When I think of Journey I think of every day life.... We are all living are own individual journey. We live our journey with the ones that we love. We help people with their journey. People reach out and help us in our own journeys. A journey is not always easy but its what we make out of it. Life is a Journey. I thought of many things when I thought of Journey but, the first thing that I thought of with the word Journey is my sister.... She is the most amazing person. She just recently started her Journey by going back to school. Some days are hard, real hard. Some days are extremely rewarding... Like getting 100% on a math final!! I am so proud of her and her ambition to get an education. What a wonderful rewarding journey it will be for her. Go Sister go.... I am so excited and proud of you.. Don't ever give up!

diptych Fresh

The picture on the left is kphotog.blogspot.com and the picture on the right is mine:)

This weeks diptych was fresh! With the season of fresh produce and all the farmers markets, I could only think of produce. We picked up a local watermellon from stirling farms for my little boys birthday party. After cutting it I took the momment to capture the yummy, FRESH, juicy, and colorful picture. I am still so excited for this weekly challenge because it really gets me practicing my picture taking skills. I am so proud of myself... The camera functions "clicked" with me... literally. I have figured out how to take pictures in manual. Its not as hard and as intimidating as I thought. I hope to continue getting better everyday!!! I love photography

Next weeks challenge is "something Round"
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Diptych #1 "soft"

My sister- in- law Kourtney with 318photography http://kphotog.blogspot.com/ ,(She is an amazing photographer that inspires me and keeps me super motivated), invited me to join her in a Diptych every week.

Now your thinking... What is a diptych? Well, I just learned myself. Its a painting or drawing in two parts, but it may also be composed of separate, closely related images. Doesn't that sound so fun! We will choose a word, phrase, quote, a setting or something unique and take a photograph of our individual idea. We will then post our pictures side by side on our blogs. I am super excited. It will get me outside of the box and get the creativity flowing. We started out with the word "SOFT" There are so many different soft things and I really like how our pics collaborated so very nicely. They fit perfectly. It will be fun to see what we come up with every week. Its a fun game in a way that will keep us thinking and practicing our abilities to perfect our art in photography. I can't wait for next week. Thank you Kourtney for inviting me to join you!