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52 Week Photography Challenge

Week 31 Street: Life in your town through the lens.

Week 32: Colorful Landscape – These are some I took on one of our outings in March that I jazzed up the color in.

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I am going to be skipping Week 33- Collaboration because at the moment I don’t really have a photographer to collaborate with and Week 34- Child Portrait because my man child is no longer a small child which is what this prompt wanted and I don’t feel comfortable putting other peoples children on my blog anymore since it is becoming the norm for some people to steal watermarked/copyrighted images from blogs which is unfortunate. So I will pick up with Week 35 on August 31st.

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52 Week Photography Challenge

Week 25 Portrait: Silhouette – Expose for the background and let the subject fall into the shadows.

Week 26 Landscape: Simplify – Simplify the scene so your subject stands out. The rocks were my subject!

Have a great weekend!

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Week 23: Landscape Weather

This was from a few weeks ago when we had our family reunion on the lake but literally our weather has not changed one bit in like a month. Rain clouds on one side semi-sunshine on the other.

My migraines would appreciate it if we could just have a little sunshine with mild cool temperatures for a while, but I don’t see that happening this time of year. HELLO rainy season/hurricane season…..

Have a great weekend!

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52 Week Photography Challenge

Well last weeks challenge was a bust cause Week 13 was Portrait: High Key and so far I have not had any willing participants to complete it so I will revisit that one at a later date. Lets be real I do this challenge for myself so the only person disappointed I did not complete the challenge last week is me & not too many people venture onto my blog these days….soooo moving along….

Week 14 – Landscape: Zoomed In

Instead of a wide sweeping landscape zoom in.

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52 Week Photography Challenge

Week 11 – Landscape/Natural Beauty: Reflection 

Show your landscape or natural beauty in reflection.

I did not get to get out and shoot much landscape this week to be specific to this challenge so I will have to try this one again next week.

The most reflection I got was this azalea flower that fell in our fountain.

But I did get some reflections a few weeks ago when we were at the creek but these have the background in them and I don’t think that is what the challenge meant. But hey I attempted something so there is that.

Happy Friday

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52 Week Photography Challenge

Week 8 – Wide Angle/Panorama Landscape

I have not had time this week to go out and find a good landscape to take a wide angle shot of I know total fail but this is one that I took & that I absolutely love from our trip to Cades Cove in 2016.

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Wordful Wednesday

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ~ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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Week 5 – Landscape Black & White

Look for a scene with great contrast and turn it black & white.

Kinda cheated this week because I took this photos a while ago but I love it so I turned it black & white.

We were out on a hike to the river and when we arrived this was our view. So pretty!!

I did however take a picture of the moon this week and it is black & white soooo that counts too right…

Happy Friday!

Wordful Wednesday - Out On A Limb

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

~ Shirley MacLaine

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52 Week Photography Challenge

Since I started this challenge late per usual I am posting weeks 1-3.

Week 1 – Self Portrait

Here you were supposed to use your self timer on your camera to take a selfie. I was gonna cheat cause I have not been feeling the best these past few days and use this one that I took when we were at the river this past weekend.

But I pulled myself together yesterday and broke out my Nikon remote that I have had for mmmm I’m gonna say 4 months and it was still in the package. Yeah I am not sure why I put off figuring that out for so long cause it took like not even 5 minutes to set up. Anywho here those are in all their glory and my thought process you’re welcome!

“Yep that is not in focus!”

“Do I even know what I am doing?”

“Oh here we go and as good as it’s gonna get!!”

Excuse my hideous hair it was still half wet and I had to cancel my hair appt this week because of the heebeegeebee’s that has taken over my body…being sick sucks!!

Week 2 – Traditional Landscape

This was pretty easy it just said to shoot a nice landscape and find a nice foreground to focus on and include the sky.

Nailed it!!! LOL just kidding.

These were just for fun and because hello cute deer jumping around in the woods!!

Week 3 – Red

We were supposed to shoot whatever inspires us with a focus on Red.

This was kinda hard. I had to walk around my house looking for something red that inspires me cause there is definitely nothing red outside right now in this cold. Then I saw it. Ornaments on my Great Aunt Helen’s Angel tree. She inspired me so much growing up. She was so confident in herself and did not take no crap from no one but she was also so young at heart and fun. She lived to be 92 and I miss her everyday!! When she passed away she left me her Angel Tree since I had given her most of the angel ornaments on it in years past for Christmas.

I love this little lady gardener fairy ornament

And this cute old cable car

But the Angels on the tree are my favorite and there are a bunch!

I can feel her presence when I am in that room with her tree and yes I keep it up year round!

Yay I am caught up!! Woot Woot

Happy Friday Ya’ll!

Living Without Fear

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a hard time with this concept most days. I have always had a bit of anxiety but after my son was born it tripled. I was scared of everything and was worried/fearful something would happen to him. I mean let’s be honest in this bat world we live in I still am but I handle it a bit better now. I still get anxiety when we are doing something on the fly because I feel unprepared but even if it is something we planned I also get no sleep the night before worrying about everything that can go wrong but instead of just cancelling plans or saying “Ya’ll go I will stay here.” I breathe through it and go cause I don’t want to miss the moments that I know I will cherish forever.

One day in the near future my precious boy (i.e. manchild) will venture out on his own and I won’t get to see him everyday so when there is a chance to spend a day with him soaking up our surroundings and listening to his crazy funny ideas and stories I don’t care how anxious it makes me I don’t hesitate to take the journey.

So this year he wants to do more adventures in the wilderness around our state and maybe even venturing into other states and that is what we are gonna do.

So get out and get some fresh air and have some unforgettable moments!

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~Helen Keller